Arstechnia

• There's a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address

  Abusing Microsoft's reputation may make scam harder to spot.

• OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

  Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.

• Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

  Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.

• Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"

  The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.

• eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

  New policy requires "buy for me" AI tools and chatbots to obtain permission before accessing the platform.

• Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

  Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data.

• Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

  The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.

• 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

  Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.

• Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike

  Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.

• OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

  Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.

• Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

  Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.

• TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings

  Amid fears of bubble, world's top chipmaker TSMC says customers just keep asking for more.

• Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals

  Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral to API access deals.

• A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

  Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

• Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

  Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.

• The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”

  “General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while..."

• Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”

  VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.

• Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

  US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies.

• Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

  Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use.

• Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws

  AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming.