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Tech News TL/DR

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

Cyber-Security

Everbridge warns of corporate systems breach exposing business data

Police seize over 100 malware loader servers, arrest four cybercriminals

US dismantles 911 S5 botnet used for cyberattacks, arrests admin

US govt sanctions cybercrime gang behind massive 911 S5 botnet

Russian indicted for selling access to US corporate networks

Sav-Rx discloses data breach impacting 2.8 million Americans

Arc browser’s Windows launch targeted by Google ads malvertising

Hacker defaces spyware app’s site, dumps database and source code

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member

OpenAI training its next major AI model, forms new safety committee

Paul Graham claims Sam Altman wasn’t fired from Y Combinator

Autobiographer’s app uses AI to help you tell your life story

Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages

Tech giants form an industry group to help develop next-gen AI chip components

Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code

Discord has become an unlikely center for the generative AI boom

Spotify experiments with an AI DJ that speaks Spanish

Misc

Two big computer vision papers boost prospect of safer self-driving vehicles

Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy)

Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem - Mobifree

Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation

Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea

US semiconductor building boom means staff shortages and talent slipping away

Windows 11 24H2 might call time on that old NAS under the stairs

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

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