General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent.
Publish Date: 12/12/2025
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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Oracle shares slide on $15B increase in data center spending

Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.
Publish Date: 12/10/2025
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Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo

“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.
Publish Date: 12/10/2025
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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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