General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

The results of AI-assisted hacking aren't as impressive as many might have us believe.
Publish Date: 11/14/2025
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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.
Publish Date: 11/12/2025
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Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.
Publish Date: 11/12/2025
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ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.
Publish Date: 11/11/2025
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Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.
Publish Date: 11/10/2025
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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
Publish Date: 11/7/2025
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Wipers from Russia’s most cut-throat hackers rain destruction on Ukraine

Sandworm and other Russian-state hackers unleash data-destroying payloads on their neighbors.
Publish Date: 11/6/2025
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Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.
Publish Date: 11/6/2025
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5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

You wouldn't know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.
Publish Date: 11/5/2025
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OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon

Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT.
Publish Date: 11/3/2025
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Two Windows vulnerabilities, one a 0-day, are under active exploitation

Both vulnerabilities are being exploited in wide-scale operations.
Publish Date: 10/31/2025
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ChatGPT maker reportedly eyes $1 trillion IPO despite major quarterly losses

It could be "one of the biggest IPOs of all time," according to Reuters.
Publish Date: 10/30/2025
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After teen death lawsuits, Character.AI will restrict chats for under-18 users

AI companion app faces legal and regulatory pressure over child safety concerns.
Publish Date: 10/30/2025
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NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86,000 times

Packages downloaded from NPM can fetch dependencies from untrusted sites.
Publish Date: 10/29/2025
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Nvidia hits record $5 trillion mark as CEO dismisses AI bubble concerns

"I don’t believe we’re in an AI bubble," says Huang after announcing $500B in orders.
Publish Date: 10/29/2025
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New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel

On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks.
Publish Date: 10/29/2025
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OpenAI data suggests 1 million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly

Sensitive chats are rare but significant given the large user base.
Publish Date: 10/28/2025
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Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement

New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.
Publish Date: 10/28/2025
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A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon's sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.
Publish Date: 10/24/2025
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Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps

At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure.
Publish Date: 10/22/2025
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