General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

"Classic" plans without AI or price increases are only for current subscribers.
Publish Date: 1/16/2025
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File that neutered Secure Boot passed Microsoft's internal review process.
Publish Date: 1/16/2025
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While close US allies get unrestricted AI chip access, the rest of the world has numerical limits.
Publish Date: 1/13/2025
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Butler's "Darwin among the machines" warned of a future mechanical race that could subjugate humanity.
Publish Date: 1/11/2025
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Service used undocumented APIs and other tricks to bypass safety guardrails.
Publish Date: 1/10/2025
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As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job growth by 2030.
Publish Date: 1/10/2025
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In-the-wild attacks tamper with built-in security tool providing infection warnings.
Publish Date: 1/9/2025
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And a few months later, the Internet's first password.
Publish Date: 1/9/2025
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How do you stash 18,000 keywords into a description? Turns out it's easy.
Publish Date: 1/8/2025
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Project DIGITS can run a local chatbot or other AI models up to 200B parameters in size.
Publish Date: 1/7/2025
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A firmware-dwelling bootkit in the iSeq 100 could be a key win for threat actors.
Publish Date: 1/7/2025
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The race to replace human workers continues in Big Tech, but not everyone is convinced it will happen so soon.
Publish Date: 1/6/2025
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Two separate campaigns have been stealing credentials and browsing history for months.
Publish Date: 1/3/2025
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Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here's what to know about passkeys.
Publish Date: 12/30/2024
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What do eating rocks, rat genitals, and Willy Wonka have in common? AI, of course.
Publish Date: 12/26/2024
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Intrusion caused medical errors and diversion of emergency services.
Publish Date: 12/23/2024
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Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing?
Publish Date: 12/20/2024
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o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks.
Publish Date: 12/20/2024
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Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.
Publish Date: 12/20/2024
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google's take on so-called AI reasoning models.
Publish Date: 12/19/2024
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