End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details “cognitive surrender”, where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning — When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users.
The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.
No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.
Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.
Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.
Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.
One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.
Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possibly go wrong?
Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.
Company says it doesn't know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.
Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.
The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.
With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Security researchers detail AirSnitch, a series of attacks that bypass Wi-Fi client isolation, enabling machine-in-the-middle attacks in modern Wi-Fi networks — That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think. — It's hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life.
That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed — The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct …
Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
Broadcom's "strategy was never to keep every customer," CloudBolt report says.
OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.
Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.
ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
Sam Altman calls AI competitor "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in lengthy post on X.
ChatGPT competitor comes out swinging with Super Bowl ad mocking AI product pitches.
Some semi-unhinged musings on where LLMs fit into my life—and how I'll keep using them.
Two AI giants shake market confidence after investment fails to materialize.
We don't need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
Eric Berger / Ars Technica: If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere — SpaceX has formally acquired another one of Elon Musk's companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon.
Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch — “Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.” — It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support.
Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.
Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.
Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began.
We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes.
One of the last holdouts for ransomware discussions, RAMP is taken down.