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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Nissan North America data breach impacts over 53,000 employees

Brothers arrested for $25 million theft in Ethereum blockchain attack

Apple blocked $7 billion in fraudulent App Store purchases in 4 years

Ebury botnet malware infected 400,000 Linux servers since 2009

INC ransomware source code selling on hacking forums for $300,000

Hackers use DNS tunneling for network scanning, tracking victims

The Post Millennial hack leaked data impacting 26 million people

CISA: Black Basta ransomware breached over 500 orgs worldwide

Artificial Intelligence

Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora

Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI six months after Altman ouster

Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype

Google adds Gemini to its Education suite

Senate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs

Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google

Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls

Expedia starts testing AI-powered features for search and travel planning

Misc

VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use

HR expert says biz leaders scared RTO mandates lead to staff attrition

Aghast iOS users report long-deleted photos back from the dead after update

Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep

With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu's never looked so snappy (without the Snaps)

Google, Apple gear to raise tracking tag stalker alarm

Microsoft fixes a bug abused in QakBot attacks plus a second under exploit

As one Apple Store votes against forming union, another may go on strike

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