General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.
Publish Date: 1/5/2026
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The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.
Publish Date: 12/31/2025
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In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.
Publish Date: 12/31/2025
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A serious data breach has occurred, but Ars users have nothing to worry about.
Publish Date: 12/30/2025
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GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions.
Publish Date: 12/29/2025
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From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.
Publish Date: 12/24/2025
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New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.
Publish Date: 12/17/2025
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The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.
Publish Date: 12/17/2025
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Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.
Publish Date: 12/15/2025
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The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.
Publish Date: 12/15/2025
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Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.
Publish Date: 12/15/2025
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"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent writing code.
Publish Date: 12/12/2025
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Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.
Publish Date: 12/10/2025
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“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.
Publish Date: 12/10/2025
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Facebook agrees to change "pay or consent" model after talks with European Commission.
Publish Date: 12/8/2025
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Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?
Publish Date: 12/4/2025
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Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.
Publish Date: 12/3/2025
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