26 articles from Ars Technica

Ars Technica General Tech May 25, 2026
US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal

Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it?

Ars Technica General Tech May 22, 2026
Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption

Critics note a lack of factual support in lawsuit filed by US Senate candidate.

Ars Technica General Tech May 22, 2026
A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks.

Ars Technica General Tech May 21, 2026
US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms

Beneficiaries include startup backed by firm with links to the Trump family.

Ars Technica General Tech May 20, 2026
Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed.

Ars Technica General Tech May 19, 2026
In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

SSH keys, plaintext passwords, other sensitive data had been up since November 2025.

Ars Technica General Tech May 14, 2026
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.

Ars Technica General Tech May 14, 2026
Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

Layoffs are "not a savings-driven restructure," CFO says.

Ars Technica General Tech May 11, 2026
Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.

Ars Technica General Tech May 08, 2026
Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals

Across the country, schools and colleges postpone year-end tests.

Ars Technica General Tech May 07, 2026
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"

The developer of Firefox says it has "completely bought in" on AI-assisted bug discovery.

Ars Technica General Tech May 06, 2026
Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!

A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI.

Ars Technica General Tech May 05, 2026
Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack

Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat.

Ars Technica General Tech May 05, 2026
Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website

Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.

Ars Technica General Tech May 04, 2026
GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it

Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay.

Ars Technica General Tech May 01, 2026
Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day

The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 30, 2026
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 29, 2026
Why a recent supply-chain attack singled out security firms Checkmarx and Bitwarden

Security firms find themselves especially exposed.

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 27, 2026
Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials

If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise.

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 24, 2026
Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 23, 2026
In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe

Technically speaking, there's no practical benefit to use PQC. So why is it being used?

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 22, 2026
Microsoft issues emergency update for macOS and Linux ASP.NET threat

When authentication fails, things can go very, very wrong.

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 21, 2026
Contrary to popular superstition, AES 128 is just fine in a post-quantum world

A stubborn misconception is hampering the already hard work of quantum readiness.

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 17, 2026
US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"

Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to... unfriendly states."

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 17, 2026
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.

Ars Technica General Tech Apr 09, 2026
โ€œNegativeโ€ views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says

Western Union exec says there were "challenges" working with Broadcom.