General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke

The visual apocalypse is probably nigh, but perhaps seeing was never believing.
Publish Date: 3/27/2025
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Broadcom’s VMware says Siemens pirated “thousands” of copies of its software

VMware claims Siemens showed it a list of the VMware products it's using unlicensed.
Publish Date: 3/26/2025
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Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.
Publish Date: 3/25/2025
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Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

Some European cloud companies have seen an increase in business.
Publish Date: 3/25/2025
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You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

CHM releases code for 2012 AlexNet breakthrough that proved "deep learning" could work.
Publish Date: 3/24/2025
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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

New approach punishes AI companies that ignore "no crawl" directives.
Publish Date: 3/21/2025
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Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers

Anthropic Claude just caught up with a ChatGPT feature from 2023—but will it be accurate?
Publish Date: 3/21/2025
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Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average

Mollick proclaims "the meme Turing Test has been passed," but a new study offers a key caveat.
Publish Date: 3/19/2025
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Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”

Asus, Dell, HP, and others to produce powerful desktop machines that run AI models locally.
Publish Date: 3/18/2025
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Nvidia announces “Rubin Ultra” and “Feynman” AI chips for 2027 and 2028

CEO Jensen Huang says new chips will power robots and billions of AI agents.
Publish Date: 3/18/2025
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Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking.

New experimental AI allows no-skill photo editing, including removing watermarks. But it's not perfect.
Publish Date: 3/18/2025
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Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets

tj-actions/changed-files corrupted to run credential-stealing memory scraper.
Publish Date: 3/17/2025
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Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s “hidden objectives”

Anthropic trains custom AI to hide objectives, but different "personas" spill their secrets.
Publish Date: 3/14/2025
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AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
Publish Date: 3/13/2025
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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

Cursor AI tells user, "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work."
Publish Date: 3/13/2025
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Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism

"Probably the craziest thing I've said so far," he admitted during an interview.
Publish Date: 3/13/2025
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New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off

Tan will start as CEO on March 18, taking over from interim co-CEOs.
Publish Date: 3/12/2025
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Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play

Google's Firebase platform also hosted configuration settings used by the apps.
Publish Date: 3/12/2025
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Google’s new robot AI can fold delicate origami, close zipper bags without damage

Google Gemini Robotics AI model gives robots fine motor skills and adaptability for general world use.
Publish Date: 3/12/2025
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OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API

New tools may help fulfill CEO's claim that agents will "join the workforce" in 2025.
Publish Date: 3/11/2025
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