General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban

H20 chips, designed to skirt export bans, are back after Trump meets with CEO.
Publish Date: 7/15/2025
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Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won't be the last.
Publish Date: 7/14/2025
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New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.
Publish Date: 7/14/2025
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AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.
Publish Date: 7/11/2025
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Pro basketball player and 4 youths arrested in connection to ransomware crimes

Suspects were allegedly involved in a string of ransomware breaches.
Publish Date: 7/10/2025
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Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

xAI claims new multi-agent model hits top benchmarks as Nazi controversy lingers.
Publish Date: 7/10/2025
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ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature—then built it.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

AI craze makes Nvidia the most valuable publicly traded company in history.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

Exploits allow hackers to bypass 2FA and commandeer vulnerable devices.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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What is AGI? Nobody agrees, and it’s tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart.

Several definitions make measuring "human-level" AI an exercise in moving goalposts.
Publish Date: 7/8/2025
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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.
Publish Date: 7/7/2025
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“No honor among thieves”: M&S hacking group starts turf war

A clash between criminal ransomware groups could result in victims being extorted twice.
Publish Date: 7/7/2025
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Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

Creators say app is intended for parental monitoring. So why the emphasis on stealth?
Publish Date: 7/3/2025
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AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

Move is aimed at curbing a form of abuse that costs subscribers dearly.
Publish Date: 7/2/2025
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Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Publish Date: 6/30/2025
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Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, and Qualcomm.
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom

"Our management thought it was a bluff..."
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
Publish Date: 6/25/2025
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