General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

Frustrated software developer believed AI-generated message came from human support rep.
Publish Date: 4/17/2025
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OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access

New o3 model appears "near-genius level," according to one doctor, but it still makes mistakes.
Publish Date: 4/16/2025
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Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole

Prompt injections are the Achilles' heel of AI assistants. Google offers a potential fix.
Publish Date: 4/16/2025
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4chan has been down since Monday night after “pretty comprehensive own”

Early info is unreliable, but the site has been mostly unavailable for hours.
Publish Date: 4/15/2025
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OpenAI continues naming chaos despite CEO acknowledging the habit

OpenAI's brand-new "GPT-4.1" has a funky name but reasonable performance for the price.
Publish Date: 4/14/2025
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Amid Trump tariff chaos, Nvidia launches AI chip production on US soil

New announcement seems aimed at appeasing Trump, signals company shift.
Publish Date: 4/14/2025
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That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
Publish Date: 4/11/2025
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Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

Even weirder: Why would Google give so many the "Featured" stamp for trustworthiness?
Publish Date: 4/11/2025
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Researchers concerned to find AI models misrepresenting their “reasoning” processes

New Anthropic research shows AI models often fail to disclose reasoning shortcuts.
Publish Date: 4/10/2025
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OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters

Company didn't notice its chatbot was being abused for (at least) 4 months.
Publish Date: 4/9/2025
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After months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new $200/month AI plan

Two-tiered "Claude Max" expands rate limits and offers traffic priority to subscribers.
Publish Date: 4/9/2025
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“The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.

Disclosure of tactics, techniques, and procedures provides rare glimpse into secretive group.
Publish Date: 4/8/2025
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Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

Carmack: "Power tools" like AI are "central to all the progress in computers."
Publish Date: 4/8/2025
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Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality

Touted 10M token context proves elusive, while early performance tests disappoint experts.
Publish Date: 4/7/2025
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NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

Used by nation-states and crime groups, fast flux bypasses many common defenses.
Publish Date: 4/4/2025
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Gmail unveils end-to-end encrypted messages. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.

Yes, encryption/decryption occurs on end-user devices, but there's a catch.
Publish Date: 4/3/2025
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AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
Publish Date: 4/2/2025
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MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together

Model context protocol standardizes how AI uses data sources, supported by OpenAI and Anthropic.
Publish Date: 4/1/2025
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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

A safe and proper rewrite should take years not months.
Publish Date: 3/29/2025
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Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data

New Spectral JPEG XL compression reduces file sizes, making spectral imaging more practical.
Publish Date: 3/28/2025
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