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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Truist Bank confirms breach after stolen data shows up on hacking forum

Ascension hacked after employee downloaded malicious file

CISA warns of criminals impersonating its employees in phone calls

Police arrest Conti and LockBit ransomware crypto specialist

City of Cleveland shuts down IT systems after cyberattack

Warmcookie Windows backdoor pushed via fake job offers

Apple enters AI arms race with new Apple Intelligence feature

23andMe data breach under investigation in UK and Canada

Artificial Intelligence

Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes

Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested

Apple and OpenAI currently have the most misunderstood partnership in tech

Former NSA head joins OpenAI board and safety committee

Spotify announces an in-house creative agency, tests generative AI voiceover ads

Tesla shareholders sue Musk for starting competing AI company

LinkedIn leans on AI to do the work of job-hunting

Generative AI takes robots a step closer to general purpose

Misc

Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs

World's first RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu preloaded touts AI smarts and octa-core chip.

Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity

Introducing Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Apple blocks PC emulator from being available in iOS App Store and third-party app stores

Wells Fargo fires employees accused of faking keyboard activity to pretend to work

Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M

Four more US states pile on Apple as DoJ turns up antitrust heat

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