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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Over 1,400 CrushFTP servers vulnerable to actively exploited bug

US charges Samourai cryptomixer founders for laundering $100 million

US govt sanctions Iranians linked to government cyberattacks

Hackers hijack antivirus updates to drop GuptiMiner malware

Microsoft: APT28 hackers exploit Windows flaw reported by NSA

GitLab affected by GitHub-style CDN flaw allowing malware hosting

Russian Sandworm hackers targeted 20 critical orgs in Ukraine

Malware dev lures child exploiters into honeytrap to extort them

Artificial Intelligence

School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis

Watch it and weep (or smile): Synthesia’s AI video avatars now feature emotions

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

Why code-testing startup Nova AI uses open source LLMs more than OpenAI

Nvidia acquires AI workload management startup Run:ai for $700M, sources say

Women in AI: Anna Korhonen studies the intersection between linguistics and AI

Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules

Misc

IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat

Did you see DOS was open-sourced yesterday?

Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes

Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop

IBM takes on Dell, HPE, Pure in FlashSystem fight

Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban

The Man Who Killed Google Search

Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script

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