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If you weren't doing IT - what would you rather be doing?

Jennifer Bichara
January 27, 2024

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Weekly IT Roundup 🤠

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Happy Saturday , IT Professionals!

Hopefully your 2024 is off to a great start!

Catch us live Monday, January 29th at 1:30 EST for a live chat with N-Able head nerd, Lewis Pope, for a discussion on Managed Detection and Response! If you’re just getting started with MDR or have implemented it and want to learn more, this session with be highly useful!

Catch you then!

-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

HPE: Russian hackers breached its security team’s email accounts

Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks

Water services giant Veolia North America hit by ransomware attack

US, UK, Australia sanction REvil hacker behind Medibank data breach

SEC confirms X account was hacked in SIM swapping attack

Hackers start exploiting critical Atlassian Confluence RCE flaw

Tietoevry ransomware attack causes outages for Swedish firms, cities

Researchers link 3AM ransomware to Conti, Royal cybercrime gangs

Artificial Intelligence

Google’s latest AI video generator can render cute animals in implausible situations

Apple aims to run AI models directly on iPhones, other devices

DeepMind AI rivals the world’s smartest high schoolers at geometry

MLCommons wants to create AI benchmarks for laptops, desktops and workstations

Feds kick off National AI Research Resource with pilot program live today

There’s an AI ‘brain drain’ in academia

The demands of regulated industries helped this startup raise $8M for its conversational AI approach

New MIT CSAIL study suggests that AI won’t steal as many jobs as expected

Misc

The rise and fall of the standard user interface

Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support & Performance, Excellent Customizability

Why Making Face Computers Cool Isn’t Easy

How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds

Wanna run Windows on an M-series Mac? Fine, buy a license, but no baremetal

Apple’s LLM gap is real. It might not last much longer.

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