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Stanford researchers spent much of the past year building an AI bot called Artemis that scans networks for software vulnerabilities, and when they pitted it against ten professional penetration testers on the university's own engineering network, the bot outperformed nine of them. The experiment offers a window into how rapidly AI hacking tools have improved after years of underwhelming performance. "We thought it would probably be below average," said Justin Lin, a Stanford cybersecurity researcher. Artemis found bugs at a fraction of human cost -- just under $60 per hour compared to the $2,000 to $2,500 per day that professional pen testers typically charge. But its performance wasn't flawless. About 18% of its bug reports were false positives, and it completely missed an obvious vulnerability on a webpage that most human testers caught. In one case, Artemis found a bug on an outdated page that didn't render in standard browsers; it used a command-line tool called Curl instead of Chrome or Firefox. Dan Boneh, a Stanford computer science professor who advised the researchers, noted that vast amounts of software shipped without being vetted by LLMs could now be at risk. "We're in this moment of time where many actors can increase their productivity to find bugs at an extreme scale," said Jacob Klein, head of threat intelligence at Anthropic.

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11 Dec 2025 3:47pm GMT

Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and has entered into a three-year licensing deal that will let users generate AI-powered short videos and images featuring more than 200 characters from its Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar franchises. The new features are expected to launch in 2026 through Sora, OpenAI's short-form video platform, and ChatGPT. A selection of user-generated short videos will also be available to stream on Disney+. The licensing agreement excludes any talent likenesses or voices. Disney will receive warrants to purchase additional OpenAI equity as part of the arrangement, and its employees will gain access to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT for building new products.

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11 Dec 2025 3:22pm GMT

NVIDIA releases Linux driver 580.119 with fixes for display corruption, mode handling, and DPI reporting on popular monitors.

11 Dec 2025 3:19pm GMT

Opera has opened its AI-powered browser Neon to the public after a couple of months of testing, and anyone interested in trying it will need to pay $19.90 per month. The Norway-based company first unveiled Neon in May and launched it in early access to select users in October. Like Perplexity's Comet, OpenAI's Atlas, and The Browser Company's Dia, Neon bakes an AI chatbot into its interface that can answer questions about pages, create mini apps and videos, and perform tasks. The browser uses your browsing history as context, so you can ask it to fetch details from a YouTube video you watched last week. The subscription also grants access to AI models including Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1.

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11 Dec 2025 2:45pm GMT

Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.

11 Dec 2025 2:39pm GMT

Tails 7.3.1 replaces 7.3 after a last-minute security fix and updates Tor Browser, the Tor client, and Thunderbird for safer, anonymous browsing.

11 Dec 2025 1:17pm GMT

KDE Gear 25.12 apps collection improves Itinerary, Kate, Dolphin, Photos, and more, delivering a polished end-of-year update packed with functional enhancements.

11 Dec 2025 1:00pm GMT

If NASA is serious about exploring Mars, it's past time to send new missions.

11 Dec 2025 12:29am GMT

"Much of the AI race comes down to amassing and deploying assets."

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