General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

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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Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

"I worry this is the big botnet flexing," CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.
Publish Date: 11/19/2025
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Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
Publish Date: 11/19/2025
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Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on

ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.
Publish Date: 11/18/2025
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Bonkers Bitcoin heist: 5-star hotels, cash-filled envelopes, vanishing funds

Bitcoin mining hardware exec falls for sophisticated crypto scam to tune of $200k
Publish Date: 11/18/2025
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Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
Publish Date: 11/18/2025
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5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs

Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.
Publish Date: 11/17/2025
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Oracle hit hard in Wall Street’s tech sell-off over its huge AI bet

Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts.
Publish Date: 11/17/2025
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Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.
Publish Date: 11/14/2025
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Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

The results of AI-assisted hacking aren't as impressive as many might have us believe.
Publish Date: 11/14/2025
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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.
Publish Date: 11/12/2025
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Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.
Publish Date: 11/12/2025
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ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.
Publish Date: 11/11/2025
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Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.
Publish Date: 11/10/2025
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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
Publish Date: 11/7/2025
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Wipers from Russia’s most cut-throat hackers rain destruction on Ukraine

Sandworm and other Russian-state hackers unleash data-destroying payloads on their neighbors.
Publish Date: 11/6/2025
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Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.
Publish Date: 11/6/2025
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