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Happy Friday, IT Professionals!

Hope you are all doing well wherever you are in the world.

Here’s this week’s news round up, yeehawwww 🤠

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Operation PowerOFF shuts down 27 DDoS-for-hire platforms

Krispy Kreme cyberattack impacts online orders and operations

Wyden proposes bill to secure US telecoms after Salt Typhoon hacks

New Cleo zero-day RCE flaw exploited in data theft attacks

Inside the incident: Uncovering an advanced phishing attack

OpenWrt Sysupgrade flaw let hackers push malicious firmware images

Cybercrime gang arrested after turning Airbnbs into fraud centers

QR codes bypass browser isolation for malicious C2 communication

Artificial Intelligence

Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features

AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “Stop hiring humans”

Reddit debuts AI-powered discussion search—but will users like it?

Harvard and Google to Release 1 Million Public-Domain Books as AI training dataset

+How Apple Intelligence changes the way you use Siri on your iPhone

Learn how to use Apple Intelligence’s ‘Image Playground’

Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom

Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis

Misc

Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway

Epic coughs up the dirty V-Bucks: Fortnite's 'dark pattern' refunds hit accounts

Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, and Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage

Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic

Linux 6.12 is the new long-term supported kernel

Intel turmoil prompts S&P Global to downgrade chipmaker's credit rating

 Show HN: A mobile app that generates mobile apps in 30 seconds

Here's the Android XR headset that Google and Samsung are releasing in 2025 - and the software that powers it

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