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LA Housing Authority confirms breach claimed by Cactus ransomware

November 08, 2024

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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Interpol disrupts cybercrime activity on 22,000 IP addresses, arrests 41

US warns of last-minute Iranian and Russian election influence ops

Suspect behind Snowflake data-theft attacks arrested in Canada

Washington courts' systems offline following a weekend cyberattack

City of Columbus: Data of 500,000 stolen in July ransomware attack

LastPass warns of fake support centers trying to steal customer data

LA Housing Authority confirms breach claimed by Cactus ransomware

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker

Artificial Intelligence

Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory

New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright

Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers

Apple iOS 18.2 public beta arrives with new AI features, but some remain waitlisted

It’s Election Day, and all the AIs — but one — are acting responsibly

OpenAI acquired Chat.com

As generative AI gets better, what will happen to artists?

Misc

Intel sued over Raptor Lake voltage instability

Windows 11 continues to creep up behind Windows 10

Buckle up, admins – Windows Server 2025 officially hits GA

Thanks Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%

Cisco scores a perfect CVSS 10 with a critical flaw in its wireless system

Why the long name? Okta discloses auth bypass bug affecting 52-character usernames

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

Black screens still plague Windows 10 Azure Virtual Desktop users

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This is not a DNS issue.

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