This is an IT Support Group
​Weekly IT Roundup 🤠

Touch Eyeballs to Screen for Cheap Lasery Surgery

Happy Black Friday, IT Professionals!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving if you’re celebrating.

You can get access to our premium IT Support tier and level up your career with our premium access which includes career resources and stuff like Shell Samurai, which helps you learn Linux in a real environment.

Enjoy your day!

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Hackers abuse popular Godot game engine to infect thousands of PCs

Hackers exploit ProjectSend flaw to backdoor exposed servers

Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in a far-off land to launch attacks on targets next door

Telco engineer who spied on US employer for Beijing gets four years in the clink

Hackers exploit critical bug in Array Networks SSL VPN products

Firefox and Windows zero-days exploited by Russian RomCom hackers

Over 1,000 arrested in massive ‘Serengeti’ anti-cybercrime operation

DOJ: Man hacked networks to pitch cybersecurity services

Artificial Intelligence

 Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival

OpenAI is at war with its own Sora video testers following the brief public leak

Nvidia’s new AI audio model can synthesize sounds that have never existed

Google Gemini’s Imagen 3 lets players design their chess pieces

Elon Musk’s AI company may release a consumer app

Bluesky’s open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

Trump considers naming an ‘AI czar’

Uber is building a fleet of gig workers to label data for AI models

Learn how to make AI work for you

AI won’t take your job, but a person using AI might. That’s why 800,000+ professionals read The Rundown AI – the free newsletter that keeps you updated on the latest AI news and teaches you how to use it in just 5 minutes a day.

Sign up to start learning.

Misc

Kill Oracle's 'JavaScript' trademark, Deno asks USPTO

How US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage

The workplace has become a surveillance state

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 cranks up the power – and the heat

Windows 10's farewell tour – not AI PCs – set to drive laptop sales in 2025

Indonesia tells Apple $100 million investment isn't enough to lift iPhone 16 sale ban

Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online

Microsoft informed of yet another antitrust probe by US authorities

Community Highlights 🚀

Discussions from This is an IT Support Group’s Facebook group

It was the most bizarre coding interview I have ever done.

I have found a software error at a company I have worked for costing them $18 million a year.

If your new tech job gives you a new laptop.

 Does anyone work IT for a casino? How is it?

Got an interview with an MSP.

Benefits of working in IT 2025

Tech Support Gore 🤘

Looks like you missed the ram, need to thermal paste the ram too silly!

Share This Newsletter, Get Cool Sh*t

Pssst, hey — Want some swag?

Share this newsletter with friends who’d like it.

Get enough referrals and we’ll send you cool stuff like stickers, shirts and hoodies!

Your link is below:

See ya next week!

-Stetson

ITSG Founder

This is an IT Support Group proudly uses Digital Ocean for hosting our web infrastructure. If you’re looking for an awesome, easy-to-use cloud provider, check out Digital Ocean!