General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation

Facebook agrees to change "pay or consent" model after talks with European Commission.
Publish Date: 12/8/2025
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In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?
Publish Date: 12/4/2025
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Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.
Publish Date: 12/3/2025
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.
Publish Date: 12/3/2025
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Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious

Researchers say there's more to the network, which has operated for 14 years.
Publish Date: 12/3/2025
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OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned.
Publish Date: 12/2/2025
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Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.
Publish Date: 12/2/2025
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HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.
Publish Date: 11/26/2025
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Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble

Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.
Publish Date: 11/26/2025
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UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push

Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware
Publish Date: 11/24/2025
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Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost."
Publish Date: 11/22/2025
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How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers

So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.
Publish Date: 11/21/2025
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Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
Publish Date: 11/21/2025
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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
Publish Date: 11/20/2025
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Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

"I worry this is the big botnet flexing," CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.
Publish Date: 11/19/2025
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Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
Publish Date: 11/19/2025
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Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on

ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.
Publish Date: 11/18/2025
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Bonkers Bitcoin heist: 5-star hotels, cash-filled envelopes, vanishing funds

Bitcoin mining hardware exec falls for sophisticated crypto scam to tune of $200k
Publish Date: 11/18/2025
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Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
Publish Date: 11/18/2025
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5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs

Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.
Publish Date: 11/17/2025
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