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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Huione Guarantee is exposed as a $11 billion marketplace for cybercrime.

CISA urges devs to weed out OS command injection vulnerabilities

Japan warns of attacks linked to North Korean Kimsuky hackers

Ticket Heist fraud gang uses 700 domains to sell fake Olympic tickets

The City of Philadelphia says over 35,000 hits in May 2023 breach

Hackers leak 39,000 print-at-home Ticketmaster tickets for 154 events

Neiman Marcus data breach: 31 million email addresses found exposed

RCE bug in widely used Ghostscript library now exploited in attacks

Artificial Intelligence

In a bid to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, AMD to buy Finnish startup for $665M

Months after Microsoft gained an observer seat on OpenAI’s board, the company is leaving the position of the non-voting seat.

How disinformation from a Russian AI spam farm ended up on top of Google search results

Alexa's co-creator gives the first glimpse of Unlikely AI’s tech strategy.

AI-generated Al Michaels to provide daily recaps during the 2024 Summer Olympics

Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels.

Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos.

Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in the new seller policy.

Misc

Firefox 128 bumps system requirements for old boxes

HP to discontinue online-only e-series LaserJet amid user gripes

Tesla parental controls keep teenage lead feet in check

PC sales inch upward as the market starts to upgrade its hardware

Windows 11 is closing the gap on Windows 10

Windows Notepad gets spell check. It only took 41 years.

Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs.

How tech went from free love to pay-per-day

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