General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

“In 10 years, all bets are off”—Anthropic CEO opposes decadelong freeze on state AI laws

Amodei says AI "too fast" for blanket law ban; sees fundamental world change in 2 years.
Publish Date: 6/5/2025
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Two certificate authorities booted from the good graces of Chrome

Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock customers must look elsewhere for new certificates.
Publish Date: 6/4/2025
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Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
Publish Date: 6/3/2025
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Broadcom ends business with VMware’s lowest-tier channel partners

Broadcom claims many eliminated partners weren't doing any VMware business.
Publish Date: 6/2/2025
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Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement

BSA names Vi­ta­ly Ni­ko­lae­vich Kovalev is "Stern," the leader of Trickbot.
Publish Date: 5/31/2025
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AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?

Google's Veo 3 delivers AI videos of realistic people with sound and music. We put it to the test.
Publish Date: 5/29/2025
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Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors

Backdoor giving full administrative control can survive reboots and firmware updates.
Publish Date: 5/28/2025
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Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site

Watching memory DIMMs get sorted like Wonka children inside SK TES' facility.
Publish Date: 5/26/2025
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Feds charge 16 Russians allegedly tied to botnets used in cyberattacks and spying

An example of how a single malware operation can enable both criminal and state-sponsored hacking.
Publish Date: 5/23/2025
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Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code malicious

AI assistants can't be trusted to produce safe code.
Publish Date: 5/23/2025
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Google’s Will Smith double is better at eating AI spaghetti … but it’s crunchy?

Veo 3 is a major leap in AI video synthesis, but the sound effects need more cooking time.
Publish Date: 5/23/2025
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Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years

Payloads were set to spontaneously detonate on specific dates with no warning.
Publish Date: 5/22/2025
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Report calls for regulation of “legally and ethically flawed” VMware

"Broadcom is unlikely to make any voluntary changes to its new commercial terms."
Publish Date: 5/22/2025
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New Claude 4 AI model refactored code for 7 hours straight

Anthropic says Claude 4 beats Gemini on coding benchmarks; works autonomously for hours.
Publish Date: 5/22/2025
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Authorities carry out global takedown of infostealer used by cybercriminals

Authorities, along with tech companies including Microsoft and Cloudflare, say they’ve disrupted Lumma.
Publish Date: 5/22/2025
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“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall

Even after its refurbishing, Recall provides few ways to exclude specific apps.
Publish Date: 5/21/2025
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Apple legend Jony Ive takes control of OpenAI’s design future

$6.5B acquisition of Ive's firm puts him in charge of moving OpenAI "beyond screens."
Publish Date: 5/21/2025
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Windows 11’s most important new feature is post-quantum cryptography. Here’s why.

For the first time, new quantum-safe algorithms can be invoked using standard Windows APIs.
Publish Date: 5/20/2025
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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

Reading list in advertorial supplement contains 66% made up books with real author names.
Publish Date: 5/20/2025
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The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs

Fortnite AI voice trained on James Earl Jones spoke curse words and insults before patch.
Publish Date: 5/16/2025
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