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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

MikroTik botnet uses misconfigured SPF DNS records to spread malware

Label giant Avery says website hacked to steal credit cards

Hackers use Google Search ads to steal Google Ads accounts

Hackers exploit critical Aviatrix Controller RCE flaw in attacks.

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Phishing texts trick Apple iMessage users into disabling protection

Ransomware abuses Amazon AWS feature to encrypt S3 buckets

Google OAuth flaw lets attackers gain access to abandoned accounts

Artificial Intelligence

In the AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense.

The US splits the world into three tiers for AI chip access

161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom

More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork despite the tech’s faults

OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets

Google raises the price of Workspace plans, includes its AI features for free

Biden administration opens up federal land to AI data centers

OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes, and no one knows why

Misc

Parallels brings back the magic of waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot

Tim is cooking up the dough as his Apple pay rises 18% to $74.6M

Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud but will manage from it

Intel AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year

SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover

Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire

Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club

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