Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest news from Ars Technica
- Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcementby Lily Hay Newman, wired.com
BSA names Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev is “Stern,” the leader of Trickbot.
- AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?by Benj Edwards
Google’s Veo 3 delivers AI videos of realistic people with sound and music. We put it to the test.
- Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoorsby Dan Goodin
Backdoor giving full administrative control can survive reboots and firmware updates.
- Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD siteby Kevin Purdy
Watching memory DIMMs get sorted like Wonka children inside SK TES’ facility.
- Feds charge 16 Russians allegedly tied to botnets used in cyberattacks and spyingby Andy Greenberg, WIRED.com
An example of how a single malware operation can enable both criminal and state-sponsored hacking.
- Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code maliciousby Dan Goodin
AI assistants can’t be trusted to produce safe code.
- Google’s Will Smith double is better at eating AI spaghetti … but it’s crunchy?by Benj Edwards
Veo 3 is a major leap in AI video synthesis, but the sound effects need more cooking time.
- Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 yearsby Dan Goodin
Payloads were set to spontaneously detonate on specific dates with no warning.
- Report calls for regulation of “legally and ethically flawed” VMwareby Scharon Harding
“Broadcom is unlikely to make any voluntary changes to its new commercial terms.”
- New Claude 4 AI model refactored code for 7 hours straightby Benj Edwards
Anthropic says Claude 4 beats Gemini on coding benchmarks; works autonomously for hours.