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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver

Spa Grand Prix email account hacked to phish banking info from fans

New ‘Loop DoS’ attack may impact up to 300,000 online systems

Here's why Twitter sends you to a different site than what you clicked

FTC warns scammers are impersonating its employees to steal money

Ukraine arrests hackers trying to sell 100 million stolen accounts

Microsoft announces deprecation of 1024-bit RSA keys in Windows

Apex Legends players worried about RCE flaw after ALGS hacks

Artificial Intelligence

GitHub’s latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities

Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form

Google balks at $270M fine after training AI on French news sites’ content

Why Elon Musk’s AI company ‘open-sourcing’ Grok matters — and why it doesn’t

OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam

Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the “world’s most powerful chip” designed for AI

YouTube will require disclosure of AI-manipulated videos from creators

After raising $1.3B, Inflection is eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft

Misc

Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android>

A different view from the edge

 How to Start Google (paulgraham.com)

Meta, Microsoft, X, Match pledge selves to Epic battle against Apple App Store

Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

Microsoft license shuffle means Power Apps users could break the bank

Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so

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