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Tech News TL;DR

This week’s IT and tech news in 5-minutes-ish or less

Cyber-Security

Google sees 68% drop in Android memory safety flaws over 5 years

Infostealer malware bypasses Chrome’s new cookie-theft defenses

New Octo Android malware version impersonates NordVPN, Google Chrome

Telegram now shares users’ IP and phone numbers on legal requests

Android malware 'Necro' infects 11 million devices via Google Play

Global infostealer malware operation targets crypto users, gamers

Windows Server 2025 previews security updates without restarts

Disney ditching Slack after massive July data breach

Artificial Intelligence

Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

Terminator’s Cameron joins AI company behind controversial image generator

When you call a restaurant, you might be chatting with an AI host

Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here

AI’s hungry maw drives massive $100B investment plan by Microsoft and BlackRock

Meta AI’s GenAI ‘Imagine’ features expand across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger

Meta AI gets lip-synced translations and celebrity voices, like Judi Dench and John Cena

Ai2’s Molmo shows open source can meet and beat closed multimodal models 

Misc

Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft 

Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite

No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom

Elon's latest X-periment: Blocked users can still stalk your public tweets

CrowdStrike apologizes to Congress for 'perfect storm' that caused global IT outage

Memory-maker Micron predicts new wave of server consolidation

Infosys scores deal to write code for EV-maker Polestar

Google's Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off unsafe code substantially

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