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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Fake password manager coding test used to hack Python developers.

New PIXHELL acoustic attack leaks secrets from LCD screen noise.

RansomHub ransomware abuses Kaspersky TDSSKiller to disable EDR software.

Critical SonicWall SSLVPN bug exploited in ransomware attacks.

Payment gateway data breach affects 1.7 million credit card owners.

Progress LoadMaster vulnerable to 10/10 severity RCE flaw.

Healthcare giant to pay $65M settlement after crooks stole and leaked nude patient pics.

SonicWall SSLVPN access control flaw is now exploited in attacks.

Artificial Intelligence

My dead father is “writing” me notes again.

Taylor Swift cites AI deepfakes in endorsement for Kamala Harris.

Amazon starts testing ads in its Rufus chatbot.

This Week in AI: OpenAI’s new Strawberry model may be smart, yet sluggish.

Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud.

Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year.

Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model.

Apple partners with third parties, like Google, on iPhone 16’s visual search.

Misc

Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official.

Do you want to watch a movie? Sure! Lemme just park in the lounge room.

Apple debuts iPhone 16, Watch Series 10, and assorted AirPods.

OneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition.

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy.

Mind the talent gap: Infosec vacancies abound, but hiring is flat.

Green Acres Is The Place For Larry.

Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest.

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