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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

FBI: BlackSuit ransomware made over $500 million in ransom demands

New CMoon USB worm targets Russians in data theft attacks

INTERPOL recovers over $40 million stolen in a BEC attack

France's Grand Palais discloses cyberattack during Olympic games

Ransomware gang targets IT workers with new SharpRhino malware

Crowdstrike: Delta Air Lines refused free help to resolve IT outage

Cryptonator seized for laundering ransom payments, stolen crypto

DuckDuckGo blocked in Indonesia over porn, gambling search results

Artificial Intelligence

Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines

ChatGPT’s mobile app just had its biggest month yet

This Week in AI: OpenAI’s talent retention woes

TechCrunch Minute: Is AI making workers more productive?

FLUX: This new AI image generator is eerily good at creating human hands

Automattic launches AI writing tool that aims to make WordPress blogs more readable and succinct

Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages

Apple Intelligence’s writing tools stumble on swear and controversial topics.

Misc

AMD’s latest desktop CPUs feature lower prices yet again as Intel readies a fightback

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

A survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

Intel: Our balance sheet is a smoking ruin, but we think our new chips work

Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust organizations urge the Feds

Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs

Cloud storage lockers from Microsoft and Google used to store and spread state-sponsored malware

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

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