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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Google: Chinese hackers likely behind Ivanti VPN zero-day attacks

Russian ISP confirms Ukrainian hackers "destroyed" its network

US Treasury hack linked to Silk Typhoon Chinese state hackers

Over 4,000 backdoors hijacked by registering expired domains

Thousands of credit cards stolen in Green Bay Packers store breach

UN aviation agency confirms recruitment database security breach

US govt launches cybersecurity safety label for smart devices

Windows 10 users urged to upgrade to avoid "security fiasco"

Artificial Intelligence

 Google’s Daily Listen AI feature generates a podcast based on your Discover feed.

Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers.

Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent

AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to build benchmarks for AGI

This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed?

Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface.’

Microsoft rolled back its Bing Image Creator model after users complained of degraded quality.

Delta Air Lines announces an AI-powered assistant in its mobile app and free onboard YouTube Premium and Music at CES 2025

Misc

Microsoft is cutting more jobs as the new year begins

Tired of begging, Microsoft is now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google

The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month

Zero-day exploits plague Ivanti Connect Secure appliances for the second year running

What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger?

The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests, it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision 

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