General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

Unofficial mod lets classic Nintendo GameCube title use AI chatbots with amusing results.
Publish Date: 9/12/2025
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OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

Companies work to finalize terms as OpenAI pursues for-profit restructuring.
Publish Date: 9/11/2025
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35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028

“We are all addicted to hypervisors, and that needs to change."
Publish Date: 9/11/2025
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Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

Wyden says default use of RC4 cipher led to last year's breach of health giant Ascension.
Publish Date: 9/10/2025
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Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

Anthropic outage takes down AI tools some developers rely on to create software.
Publish Date: 9/10/2025
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Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

Microsoft will end OpenAI's exclusive hold on its productivity suite, adding second AI supplier.
Publish Date: 9/10/2025
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Claude’s new AI file-creation feature ships with security risks built in

Expert calls security advice "unfairly outsourcing the problem to Anthropic's users."
Publish Date: 9/9/2025
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SAP warns of high-severity vulnerabilities in multiple products

Users of SAP's S/4HANA and NetWeaver products are at risk and should patch soon.
Publish Date: 9/9/2025
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Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

UK study findings may challenge assumptions about who benefits most from AI tools.
Publish Date: 9/9/2025
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Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

Incident hitting npm users is likely the biggest supply-chain attack ever.
Publish Date: 9/9/2025
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Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

Meta allegedly prioritized user growth over security, lawsuit said.
Publish Date: 9/8/2025
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AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

AI still threatens entry-level IT jobs.
Publish Date: 9/8/2025
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ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

Users can explore multiple paths without losing their original chat thread.
Publish Date: 9/5/2025
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The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.

Everything to know about the mishap that threatened to expose millions of users' queries.
Publish Date: 9/4/2025
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Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

Historic interpreter taught millions to program on Commodore and Apple computers.
Publish Date: 9/4/2025
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New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle.
Publish Date: 9/3/2025
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Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

The three certificates were issued in May but only came to light Wednesday.
Publish Date: 9/3/2025
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OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

Promised protections follow reports of vulnerable users misled in extended chats.
Publish Date: 9/2/2025
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Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.
Publish Date: 8/29/2025
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Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger

Assume all Drift credentials are compromised after Workspace breach, Google says.
Publish Date: 8/29/2025
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