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?
Dan Goodin
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Biz & IT // Informed technology
Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.
Dan Goodin
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Dan Goodin
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Scharon Harding
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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.
Financial Times
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Most Read
UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push
Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware
Financial Times
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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.”
Dan Goodin
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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.
Dan Goodin
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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.
Benj Edwards
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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs
HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
Scharon Harding
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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.
Jon Brodkin
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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?
Dan Goodin
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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
WIRED
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Dan Goodin
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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.
Financial Times
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Dan Goodin
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Dan Goodin
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Benj Edwards
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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.
Dan Goodin
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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.
Benj Edwards
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5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected
You wouldn’t know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.
Dan Goodin
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OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon
Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT.
Benj Edwards
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Two Windows vulnerabilities, one a 0-day, are under active exploitation
Both vulnerabilities are being exploited in wide-scale operations.
Dan Goodin
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ChatGPT maker reportedly eyes $1 trillion IPO despite major quarterly losses
It could be “one of the biggest IPOs of all time,” according to Reuters.
Benj Edwards
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After teen death lawsuits, Character.AI will restrict chats for under-18 users
AI companion app faces legal and regulatory pressure over child safety concerns.
Benj Edwards
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NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86,000 times
Packages downloaded from NPM can fetch dependencies from untrusted sites.
Dan Goodin
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Nvidia hits record $5 trillion mark as CEO dismisses AI bubble concerns
“I don’t believe we’re in an AI bubble,” says Huang after announcing $500B in orders.
Benj Edwards
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