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Happy Friday, IT Professionals!

Hope you are keeping warm this January! If you’re in the US, it’s likely you saw snow this year. I saw a video of snow on the beach in Florida that I had to stop and double-check wasn’t AI!

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See you then!

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

PowerSchool hacker claims they stole data from 62 million students.

Cybersecurity hiring is deeply flawed, demoralizing, and needs to be fixed.

Cybersecurity is tough: 4 steps leaders can take now to reduce team burnout.

Cloudflare CDN flaw leaks user location data, even through secure chat apps.

Microsoft Teams vishing attacks trick employees into handing over remote access.

Telegram captcha tricks you into running malicious PowerShell scripts.

7 top cybersecurity projects for 2025.

Mastercard’s multi-year DNS cut-and-paste nightmare. 

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT suffered a major outage this morning, but OpenAI says it's a backup.

Critics express skepticism as OpenAI launches the $500B “Stargate” project.

Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027.

Someone bought the OGOpenAI domain and redirected it to a Chinese AI lab.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over Stargate.

Neko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuation.

Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff says.

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

Misc

 Apple sued for using dangerous 'forever chemicals' in Watch bands.

iOS 18.3: What to expect in the next iPhone update.

A gaming mouse goes up in flames, nearly causing an apartment fire.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 is so bright that it wears Crocs and allegedly resists quantum decryption.

App stores are unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may be on shaky legal ground.

VMware users gripe over a 3-year commitment to renew licenses.

On Dualities in Functional Programming.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: a new king of 4K is here.

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