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Happy…Monday?!

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-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Credit card users get mysterious Shopify-charge.com charges.

CISA and FBI: DDoS attacks won’t impact US election integrity

Fraud ring pushes 600+ fake web shops via Facebook ads

Dark Angel's ransomware receives a record-breaking $75 million ransom

Massive SMS stealer campaign infects Android devices in 113 countries

Misconfigured Selenium Grid servers abused for Monero mining

Russian ransomware gangs account for 69% of all ransom proceeds

US offers $10M for tips on DPRK hacker linked to Maui ransomware attacks

Artificial Intelligence

How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business

Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email

AI search engine accused of plagiarism announces publisher revenue-sharing plan

OpenAI pledges to give the U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to its next model

Blocking AI bots from Microsoft and others has been a “pain in the a**”: Reddit CEO

Google releases new ‘open’ AI models with a focus on safety

From sci-fi to state law: California’s plan to prevent AI catastrophe

Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups

Misc

Linux updates with an undo function? Some distros have that

Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates

Google apologizes for breaking the password manager for millions of Windows users with an iffy Chrome update.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for 'worker surveillance'

Samsung confirms Exynos 2500 chip as profit skyrockets on back of memory boom

Intel prepares to cut 'thousands' of workers

NASA pops repair kit in the mail so astronauts can fix leaky ISS telescope

How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?

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