Arstechnia

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Pro basketball player and 4 youths arrested in connection to ransomware crimes

  Suspects were allegedly involved in a string of ransomware breaches.

• 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.

• 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.

• Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

  Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

• AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

  AI craze makes Nvidia the most valuable publicly traded company in history.

• Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

  Exploits allow hackers to bypass 2FA and commandeer vulnerable devices.

• 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.

• Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

  Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.

• “No honor among thieves”: M&S hacking group starts turf war

  A clash between criminal ransomware groups could result in victims being extorted twice.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

  AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, and Qualcomm.

• Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

  AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.

• VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom

  "Our management thought it was a bluff..."

• 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."

• Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

  Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.