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North Korean hackers linked to defense sector supply-chain attack

North Korean hackers linked to defense sector supply-chain attack

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Weekly IT Roundup 🤠

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Happy Saturday, IT Professionals!

This week’s newsletter is a short one.

We’re still looking for IT pros to feature in a short series interviewing our members and learning about their careers and what advice they can give to others.

If that’s you, reply to this email!

Btw, did you catch my discussion with Joe Ferla on Challenges and Benefits of the Cloud?

Have a beautiful weekend

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Fraudsters tried to scam Apple out of 5,000 iPhones worth over $3 million

US govt shares cyberattack defense tips for water utilities

US offers $15 million bounty for info on LockBit ransomware gang

Critical infrastructure software maker confirms ransomware attack

Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown

North Korean hackers linked to defense sector supply-chain attack

Hacker arrested for selling bank accounts of US, Canadian users

New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks against home networks

Artificial Intelligence

Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO

Google plans “Gemini Business” AI for Workspace users

ChatGPT starts spouting nonsense in 'unexpected responses' shocker

Pentagon enlists Scale AI to help military get smarter

Prompt engineering is a task best left to AI models

Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems

AI is going to need a global investment, just maybe not $7T, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Nasuni adds ‘AI-ready’ data management to cloud file services

Misc

Mobile telecommunications outages reported in several US cities

Microsoft retires Azure IoT Central retirement announcement

Windows 11 users herded toward 23H2 via automatic upgrade

Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer

Apple promises to protect iMessage chats from quantum computers

Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026

I read comics on Apple’s Vision Pro . . . It was fine

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

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