Arstechnia

• Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

  The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.

• Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

  Problems viewing products and checking out.

• Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation

  With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.

• Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

  Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.

• LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

  Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

• Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space

  Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.

• New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

  That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.

• Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true

  Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.

• Most VMware users still "actively reducing their VMware footprint," survey finds

  Broadcom's "strategy was never to keep every customer," CloudBolt report says.

• Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

  This story has been retracted

• OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

  OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

• Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

  Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

• Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist

  ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."

• OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path

  Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.

• Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

  The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

• Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

  Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.

• AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

  Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.

• OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads

  Sam Altman calls AI competitor "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in lengthy post on X.

• Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race

  Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.

• Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.

  The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.