General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Cybercriminals openly run dozens of scams across social media and messaging apps.
Publish Date: 5/4/2024
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ZTDNS brings the best of both worlds to DNS: encryption and fine-grained control.
Publish Date: 5/3/2024
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"One of the largest counterfeit-trafficking operations ever."
Publish Date: 5/3/2024
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Microsoft has been criticized for "preventable" failures and poor communication.
Publish Date: 5/3/2024
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Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions.
Publish Date: 5/3/2024
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The threat is potentially grave because it could be used in supply-chain attacks.
Publish Date: 5/2/2024
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How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet.
Publish Date: 5/2/2024
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Anthropic finally comes to mobile, launches plan for teams that includes 200K context window.
Publish Date: 5/1/2024
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Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.
Publish Date: 5/1/2024
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145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.
Publish Date: 4/30/2024
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Ransomware attack on the $371 billion company hamstrung US prescription market.
Publish Date: 4/30/2024
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Amazon says it's working on stopping others from "making your AWS bill explode."
Publish Date: 4/30/2024
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Mystery LLM highlights transparency issues in AI testing.
Publish Date: 4/30/2024
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CEO-heavy board to tackle elusive AI safety concept and apply it to US infrastructure.
Publish Date: 4/29/2024
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The law aims to prevent global-scale botnet attacks.
Publish Date: 4/29/2024
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Credential-stuffing attack uses proxies to hide bad behavior.
Publish Date: 4/29/2024
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WP Automatic plugin patched, but release notes don't mention the critical fix.
Publish Date: 4/26/2024
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OpenELM mirrors efforts by Microsoft to make useful small AI language models that run locally.
Publish Date: 4/25/2024
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Ability of PlugX worm to live on presents a vexing dilemma: Delete it or leave it be.
Publish Date: 4/25/2024
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Police uncover plot to defame principal with AI-generated racist and antisemitic comments.
Publish Date: 4/25/2024
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