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Happy Friday, IT Professionals!

Hope you are staying warm as winter approaches!

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Enjoy your Friday afternoon and don’t push to prod today 😅

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists

Now BlueSky is hit with crypto scams as it crosses 20 million users

Mega US healthcare payments network restores system 9 months after ransomware attack

Fintech giant Finastra investigates data breach after SFTP hack

CISA tags Progress Kemp LoadMaster flaw as exploited in attacks

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bugs too dangerous to identify

America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem

Ford rejects breach allegations, says customer data not impacted

Artificial Intelligence

Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom

Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed

Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview

Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build an AI navigation system

AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says

OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit

Nvidia’s CEO defends his moat as AI labs change how they improve their AI models

ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher

Misc

Microsoft unveils beefy custom AMD chip to crunch HPC workloads on Azure

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC

Epic Allows Internet Archive To Distribute For Free ‘Unreal’ & ‘Unreal Tournament’ Forever

Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals

Arm lays down the law with a blueprint to challenge x86's PC dominance

Citrix gives its Platform a polish with enhanced management tools

Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2

Google Gemini tells a grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

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