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Stetson Blake
November 25, 2023

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Happy Saturday, IT Professional!

Monday at 1:30 PM I’ll be chatting with Industry Experts Lewis Pope and Eric Harless about 'Ensuring Robust Data Management, Security, and Retention’

I’d love if you joined us and asked some questions! Hit the link and click “notifications on” to RSVP

Since our last email, you’re probably sick of hearing about Sam Altman. He was fired from OpenAI, then accepted a position with Microsoft, OpenAI employees signed a petition to fire the board and now Sam Altman is back as CEO.

I’ve been playing with more and more AI tools myself, in fact, heres’s an AI video I generated today with Stable Diffusion Video:

We’ve got a slew of tech news for you today, enjoy!

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Atomic Stealer malware strikes macOS via fake browser updates

Critical bug in ownCloud file sharing app exposes admin passwords

UK and South Korea: Hackers use zero-day in supply-chain attack

Welltok data breach exposes data of 8.5 million US patients

New botnet malware exploits two zero-days to infect NVRs and routers

Open-source Blender project battling DDoS attacks since Saturday

Microsoft now rolling out Copilot to Windows 10 devices

Hacktivists breach U.S. nuclear research lab, steal employee data

Auto parts giant AutoZone warns of MOVEit data breach

CISA orders federal agencies to patch Looney Tunables Linux bug

Tor Project removes relays because of for-profit, risky activity

CyberSec Company Exec Pleads Guilty to Hacking Charges

Russian hackers use Ngrok feature and WinRAR exploit to attack embassies

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say

Get Gordon Ramsey’s Take on Your Food

Cloudflare announces AI workers

Introducing Claude 2.1

Misc

I will Always Prefer to Work from Home

“Make It Real” AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software

China Tried to Keep Kids Off Social Media. Now the Elderly Are Hooked

Elon Musk says X will show headlines on the platform again

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