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Tech News TL;DR

Links and highlights from this week

Cyber-Security

Hackers are exploiting a critical bug in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin.

U.S. charges Karakurt extortion gang’s “cold case” negotiator.

Man sentenced for hacking state registry to fake his death.

Phrack Hacker zine publishes a new edition after three years.

Hackers use PHP exploits to backdoor Windows systems with new malware.

Hacker locks Unicoin staff out of Google accounts for four days.

Ransomware rakes in a record-breaking $450 million in the first half of 2024.

Hackers linked to $14M Holograph crypto heist arrested in Italy.

Artificial Intelligence

Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services.

Procreate defies the AI trend and pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app.

DeepMind workers sign a letter in protest of Google’s defense contracts.

AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?

Alphabet X’s latest spinout brings computer vision and AI to salmon farms.

Harmonyze wants to build AI agents to help franchisors make sense of unstructured data.

Telecom, which enabled Biden's deepfake scam, will pay the FCC $1M.

OpenAI’s opposition to California’s AI bill ‘makes no sense,’ says state senator

Misc

Microsoft should stop telling investors about the performance of server products.

According to AMD, gamers who think the Ryzen 9000s is slow are testing it wrong.

A benign bug in iOS and iPadOS crashes gizmos with just four characters.

Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its app store.

Digital wallets can allow purchases with stolen credit cards.

Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back.

Ubuntu 24.04.1 will be late, but fresher kernels are coming.

Microsoft closes Windows 11 upgrade loophole in latest Insider build.

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