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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Darcula PhaaS can now auto-generate phishing kits for any brand.

Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider.

Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger.

Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec.

Phishing attack hides JavaScript using an invisible Unicode trick.

The New WinRAR version strips Windows metadata to increase privacy.

Palo Alto Networks tags new firewall bugs as exploited in attacks.

Chinese hackers use custom malware to spy on US telecom networks.

Artificial Intelligence

Spotify partners with ElevenLabs to expand its library of AI-narrated audiobooks.

Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ uses AI to help you explore job possibilities.

Superhuman introduces AI-powered categorization to reduce spammy emails in your inbox.

Apple’s $599 iPhone 16e adds AI, launches February 28.

Privacy-problematic DeepSeek pulled from app stores in South Korea.

Google’s new AI generates hypotheses for researchers.

Sanas taps AI to change call center workers’ accents in real-time.

Google pulls Gemini from the main search app on iOS.

Misc

Insiders say IBM's broader return-to-office plan hits older, more expensive staff hard.

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes of waiting time for telephone support calls.

Dark mode may be using more battery than you realize.

Talk about Broadcom and TSMC taking bits from Intel excites investors.

Mobile operators brace for bigger, faster headaches with 6G.

Acer signals a 10% laptop price hike in the US and blames Trump's extra China tariff.

Snake Keylogger slithers into Windows and evades detection with AutoIt-compiled payload.

Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you.

Community Highlights 🚀

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

I guess someone uploaded the wrong file.

Wow WTF? Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th, 9th, and10th Gen Intel CPUs.

I'm really at the point of stopping watching Linus and GN because they're both wrong.

Gotta be careful with the dark web.

So CompTIA is no longer... CompTIA?

A game called PirateFi was released on Steam last week, and it contained malware. Valve removed the game two days ago.

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