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Happy Saturday, IT Professionals!

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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

KnowBe4 mistakenly hires a North Korean hacker and faces an info stealer attack.

Google Chrome now asks for passwords to scan protected archives.

CrowdStrike: 'Content Validator' bug let faulty update pass checks

Chinese hackers deploy new Macma macOS backdoor version

US sanctions Russian hacktivists who breached water facilities

Revolver Rabbit gang registers 500,000 domains for malware campaigns

UK arrests suspected Scattered Spider hacker linked to MGM attack

Microsoft releases Windows repair tool to remove CrowdStrike driver

Artificial Intelligence

We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands.

Elon Musk claims he trains “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric.”

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B.

Astronomers discover techniques to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools.

Google makes its Gemini chatbot faster and more widely available.

The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open” in a specific, quirky way.

OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, which will replace GPT-3.5 in ChatGPT.

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B.

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now, Thanks to AI Deal

Misc

Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone.

Apple Maps escapes orchard into web browser wilds.

Apple's Clamshell iBook G3 at 25 – not just a pretty case

Windows NT on a whole new platform: PowerMac

Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen.

Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions

AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 chip launch because the quality ain't good enough

Intel to deliver fix for Raptor Lake CPUs made 'unstable' by voltage snafu

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