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Happy Friday, IT Professionals!

By now, you’ve probably heard about the Crowdstrike outage, which caused massive issues for organizations worldwide and grounding flights.

If you haven’t heard about it, you’re probably managing Linux/Mac systems.

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Enjoy your Friday!

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Critical Cisco bug lets hackers add root users on SEG devices.

Notorious FIN7 hackers sell EDR killers to other threat actors.

Over 400,000 Life360 user phone numbers leaked via unsecured API

Kaspersky offers free security software for six months in the U.S. goodbye

Email addresses of 15 million Trello users leaked on a hacking forum

Microsoft links Scattered Spider hackers to Qilin ransomware attacks

Facebook ads for Windows desktop themes push info-stealing malware

Hackers use PoC exploits in attacks 22 minutes after release

Artificial Intelligence

Former OpenAI researcher’s new company will teach you how to build an LLM

OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework

First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards

Intuit’s AI gamble: Mass layoff of 1,800 paired with a hiring spree

Samsung to acquire UK-based knowledge graph startup Oxford Semantic Technologies

Microsoft’s AI-powered, Canva-like Designer app lands on iOS and Android

Spotify adds a Spanish-speaking AI DJ, ‘Livi’

Proton launches ‘privacy-first’ AI writing assistant for email that runs on-device

Misc

Release the hounds! Securing data centers may soon need sniffer dogs

Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23 billion

Google can explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU and GPU usage

 Microsoft wasn't CISPE's only suitor – it seems Google was willing to pay for its views on cloudy licensing to prevail

NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default

Here we go again. And again. Musk threatens to pull Twitter and SpaceX out of California.

Semiconductor shares slump – possibly thanks to Biden and Trump

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