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Happy Friday, IT Professionals!

Can you believe it’s March already?

Got a bundle of IT news for ya.

-Stetson

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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

 VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks.

Lazarus hacked Bybit via breached Safe{Wallet} developer machine.

OpenAI's GPT 4.5 spotted in Android beta, launch imminent.

EncryptHub breaches 618 orgs. to deploy info stealers, ransomware,

Bybit declares war on North Korea's Lazarus crime ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet.

With millions upon millions of victims, the scale of unstoppable info-stealer malware is laid bare.

PyPi package with 100K installs pirated music from Deezer for years.

Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware.

Artificial Intelligence

 Amazon’s subscription-based Alexa+ looks highly capable—and questionable.

Google’s free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits,

Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI, but fierce competition exists.

Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help.

Apple iPhone 16e review: An A18 chip and Apple Intelligence for $599.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shrugs off DeepSeek as sales soar.

Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model.

ElevenLabs now lets authors create and publish audiobooks on its platform.

Misc

Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl.

FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license.

Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kits using its chips (YMMV).

Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet.

Yes, Slack isn't working correctly right now – enjoy your internet snow day.

FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline.

Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternatives.

Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice. 

Community Highlights 🚀

Discussions from This is an IT Support Group’s Facebook group

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Remote Work

Finally got my cards!

My company wants to use a remote program to access our clients' computers, but we are having trouble deciding between Anydesk and Screen Connect. What do you guys recommend?

"I need admin rights immediately." -same user.

After over 10 years, we finally put this bad boy to rest. The leading IT guy brought this from his old job, and it’s the first time I’ve seen one. We still have a couple more left.

Tech Support Gore 🤘

I don't know how tight a fiber cable can be bent before breaking, but I'm impressed it's still working. Not going to touch it.

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