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This is an IT Support Group
​Weekly IT Roundup 🤠

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Happy Saturday, IT Professionals!

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

FIN7 hackers launch deepfake nude “generator” sites to spread malware

Fake browser updates spread updated WarmCookie malware

DrayTek fixed critical flaws in over 700,000 exposed routers

Evil Corp hit with new sanctions, BitPaymer ransomware charges

Hacker charged for breaching 5 companies for insider trading

The critical flaw in NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows full host takeover

Iranian hackers charged for ‘hack-and-leak’ plot to influence election

US proposes ban on connected vehicle tech from China, Russia

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion

OpenAI unveils easy voice assistant creation at 2024 developer event

Google and Meta update their AI models amid the rise of “AlphaChip”

Hey, UK! Here’s how to ‘opt-out’ of Meta using your Facebook and Instagram data to train its AI

Judge blocks California’s new AI law in case over Kamala Harris deepfake

Cancer AI Alliance joins medical and tech expertise together with $40M to collaborate on next-gen care

Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze

Elon Musk’s xAI moves into OpenAI’s old HQ

Misc

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

Microsoft lifts the price of System Center by ten percent

After 3 years, Windows 11 has more than half of Windows 10's market share

Microsoft throws in the towel on HoloLens 2

Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances

Get ready: US port strike likely to snarl tech supply chains

Fujitsu, Supermicro, team for Arm-based servers

Latest in WordPress war: Automattic says it wanted 8% cut of WP Engine revenue

Community Highlights 🚀

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

I got laid off for the first time in my career.

An awful lot of hate for Apple in here… 👀

What’s the best IT path for people with felonies regarding the distribution of thc

Now that newer Dell computers ONLY use UEFI to boot, how can you boot to a USB to install the Os?

Wow

So I did a thing. I'm 6/6 on certification exams 🙂

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-Stetson

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