General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Microsoft warns of new “Payroll Pirate” scam stealing employees’ direct deposits

Among other things, the scammers bypass multi-factor authentication.
Publish Date: 10/10/2025
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AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Anthropic study suggests "poison" training attacks don't scale with model size.
Publish Date: 10/9/2025
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Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users

As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.
Publish Date: 10/9/2025
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Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.
Publish Date: 10/8/2025
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Salesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breach

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else.
Publish Date: 10/8/2025
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Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models

Policy change affects at least 2025 model Plus, Value, and J-series DiskStations.
Publish Date: 10/8/2025
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Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron is on with Ars at 3:30pm EDT today

Our discussion happens today, October 7, at 3:30pm US Eastern time.
Publish Date: 10/7/2025
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AMD wins massive AI chip deal from OpenAI with stock sweetener

ChatGPT maker will be allowed to buy 10% of AMD for a penny per share.
Publish Date: 10/6/2025
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ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team

ICE plans to hire contractors to scan platforms to target people for deportation.
Publish Date: 10/4/2025
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Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots

Rodney Brooks says humanoid robots pose hidden safety challenges and won't learn dexterity from video alone.
Publish Date: 10/2/2025
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That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this

Smishers looking for new infrastructure are getting creative.
Publish Date: 10/1/2025
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound

Sora social app launches with deepfake-style "cameos" and feed controls.
Publish Date: 10/1/2025
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Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, a foundation for network security, fall to physical attacks

The chipmakers say physical attacks aren't in the threat model. Many users didn't get the memo.
Publish Date: 9/30/2025
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DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs

Chinese lab's v3.2 release explores a technique that could make running AI far less costly.
Publish Date: 9/30/2025
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California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted

After the failure of S.B. 1047, new AI disclosure law drops kill switch for disclosure mandate.
Publish Date: 9/30/2025
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Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks

New Claude Sonnet 4.5 beats OpenAI and Google on coding tests.
Publish Date: 9/29/2025
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Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first.

Cambridge researchers use satellite-based bramble detection as a proxy for mapping hedgehog habitats.
Publish Date: 9/26/2025
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ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

New mobile chatbot feature analyzes conversations overnight.
Publish Date: 9/25/2025
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Experts urge caution about using ChatGPT to pick stocks

AI-selected portfolios might perform well in a growing market, but experts warn of downturn risks.
Publish Date: 9/25/2025
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As many as 2 million Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day

Search shows 2 million vulnerable Cisco SNMP interfaces exposed to the Internet.
Publish Date: 9/25/2025
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