General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

"Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.
Publish Date: 7/18/2025
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Phishers have found a way to downgrade—not bypass—FIDO MFA

Contrary to recent reports, phishing sleight-of-hand doesn't defeat FIDO.
Publish Date: 7/18/2025
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GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service

The repository offered the MaaS a distribution channel not blocked in many networks.
Publish Date: 7/17/2025
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ChatGPT’s new AI agent can browse the web and create PowerPoint slideshows

New "agentic" AI feature combines web browsing with task-execution abilities.
Publish Date: 7/17/2025
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Google hides secret message in name list of 3,295 AI researchers

Gemini 2.5 paper hides Easter egg in massive author list—but why so many contributors?
Publish Date: 7/17/2025
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More VMware cloud partners axed as Broadcom launches new invite-only program

Smaller businesses most likely to be affected as white-label cloud program is also ending.
Publish Date: 7/16/2025
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Google finds custom backdoor being installed on SonicWall network devices

Overstep backdoor nukes key log entries, making detection hard.
Publish Date: 7/16/2025
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Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

Technique transforms the Internet DNS into an unconventional file storage system.
Publish Date: 7/16/2025
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Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban

H20 chips, designed to skirt export bans, are back after Trump meets with CEO.
Publish Date: 7/15/2025
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Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won't be the last.
Publish Date: 7/14/2025
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New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.
Publish Date: 7/14/2025
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AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.
Publish Date: 7/11/2025
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Pro basketball player and 4 youths arrested in connection to ransomware crimes

Suspects were allegedly involved in a string of ransomware breaches.
Publish Date: 7/10/2025
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Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

xAI claims new multi-agent model hits top benchmarks as Nazi controversy lingers.
Publish Date: 7/10/2025
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ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature—then built it.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

AI craze makes Nvidia the most valuable publicly traded company in history.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

Exploits allow hackers to bypass 2FA and commandeer vulnerable devices.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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What is AGI? Nobody agrees, and it’s tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart.

Several definitions make measuring "human-level" AI an exercise in moving goalposts.
Publish Date: 7/8/2025
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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.
Publish Date: 7/7/2025
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