General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years

Co-founder thinks other companies should consider a "swim against the stream."
Publish Date: 10/21/2024
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OpenAI releases ChatGPT app for Windows

New Alt+Space shortcut puts OpenAI's assistant a key press away at all times.
Publish Date: 10/18/2024
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Finally upgrading from isc-dhcp-server to isc-kea for my homelab

Migrating didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would—and dynamic DNS still works!
Publish Date: 10/18/2024
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Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording

Researcher feeds screen recordings into Gemini to extract accurate information with ease.
Publish Date: 10/17/2024
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Two accused of DDoSing some of the world’s biggest tech companies

Hospitals, government agencies, and a large roster of tech companies all targeted.
Publish Date: 10/16/2024
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Amazon joins Google in investing in small modular nuclear power

What's with the sudden interest in nuclear power among tech titans?
Publish Date: 10/16/2024
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Deepfake lovers swindle victims out of $46M in Hong Kong AI scam

Scammers used AI deepfake tools to create fake online personas, tricking victims in video calls.
Publish Date: 10/16/2024
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North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs

Once, FASTCash ran only on Unix. Then came Windows. Now it can target Linux, too.
Publish Date: 10/15/2024
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SpaceX tells FCC it has a plan to make Starlink about 10 times faster

SpaceX: "Small-but-meaningful updates" can boost speed from about 100Mbps to 1Gbps.
Publish Date: 10/15/2024
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Google and Kairos sign nuclear reactor deal with aim to power AI

New Google agreement could boost development of small modular reactors—if they work.
Publish Date: 10/15/2024
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Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content

New text-to-video tool focuses on video pros, made with content owner permission.
Publish Date: 10/14/2024
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The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online

Wayback Machine back in read-only mode after DDoS, may need further maintenance.
Publish Date: 10/14/2024
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Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.

A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.
Publish Date: 10/14/2024
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Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys?

Partying robots spark debate about accuracy of Musk's "biggest product ever of any kind" vision.
Publish Date: 10/11/2024
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AMD unveils powerful new AI chip to challenge Nvidia

AMD CEO Lisa Su on the MI325X: "This is the beginning, not the end of the AI race."
Publish Date: 10/11/2024
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Join Ars in DC for infrastructure, cocktails, and spycraft on October 29

On the discussion agenda: Privacy, compliance, and making infrastructure smarter.
Publish Date: 10/10/2024
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Archive.org, a repository of the history of the Internet, has a data breach

31 million records containing email addresses and password hashes exposed.
Publish Date: 10/10/2024
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Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test.

With China's AI video generators pushing memes into weird territory, it was time to test one out.
Publish Date: 10/9/2024
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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices

It's hard enough creating one air-gap-jumping tool. GoldenJackal did it 2x in 5 years.
Publish Date: 10/9/2024
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In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize

Hinton, who quit Google in 2023 to warn of AI dangers, was "flabbergasted" at the news.
Publish Date: 10/8/2024
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