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​Weekly IT Roundup 🤠

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Happy Friday, IT Professionals!

What’s new?

• I’ve been playing with coding with AI in our Discord

• We did a giveaway to our premium IT membership in discord, more to come there

It’s Friday!!

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Halliburton cyberattack linked to RansomHub ransomware gang

FBI: RansomHub ransomware breached 210 victims since February

Russian APT29 hackers use iOS, and Chrome exploits created by spyware vendors

South Korean hackers exploited WPS Office zero-day to deploy malware

Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in an extortion plot

US offers $2.5 million reward for hacker linked to Angler Exploit Kit

Iranian hackers work with ransomware gangs to extort breached organizations

Chinese Volt Typhoon hackers exploited Versa zero-day to breach ISPs, MSPs

Artificial Intelligence

A new AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real-time

Debate over the “open source AI” term brings a new push to formalize the definition

Hobbyists discover how to insert custom fonts into AI-generated images

Apple and Nvidia could be OpenAI’s next big investors

IBM Cloud to offer Intel’s Gaudi 3 AI chips next year

OpenAI, Adobe, and Microsoft support the California bill requiring watermarks on AI content

Viggle makes controllable AI characters for memes and visualizing ideas

Calendar tool Clockwise adds a new AI-powered interface called Prism

Misc

Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails

A last look at the Living Computers museum before the collection heads to auction

Ex-Microsoft engineer resurrects PDP-11 from junkyard parts

Ex-Windows boss who tried to save the Start Menu now Shopify tech wizard

Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier

Facebook whistleblower calls for transparency in social media, AI

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