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Weekly IT Roundup 🤠
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Happy Friday, IT Professionals!
Reminder: If you missed my live discussion with Lewis Pope about the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification you can watch a recording here.
On to the news!
-Stetson
Tech News TL;DR
This week’s IT and tech news in 5-minutes-ish or less
🛡️ Cyber-Security
🔓 LockBit Ransomware Gang Gets Hacked – Victim Negotiations Exposed
A rare twist: LockBit’s internal systems breached, revealing sensitive victim communications.
📡 FBI Warning: End-of-Life Routers Hijacked for Criminal Proxy Networks
Old routers are being turned into cybercrime infrastructure—patch or replace now.
🎓 Pearson Hit by Major Cyberattack – Customer Data Stolen
The education giant becomes the latest victim in a wave of breaches.
🛠️ SonicWall Urges Immediate Patching of Actively Exploited VPN Flaw
VPN vulnerability is being exploited in the wild—patch immediately.
🔐 WhatsApp’s Hidden Group Message Vulnerability Raises Eyebrows
No cryptographic controls for group messaging? That’s a big red flag.
☁️ Cloud
✉️ Broadcom Sends Cease-and-Desist Letters to VMware Users Post-Acquisition
Some VMware users are now being legally pressured after Broadcom's takeover.
💸 37signals Deletes AWS Account to Save Millions
The company’s bold cloud exit is already showing major cost benefits.
🧳 Ex-VMware Customers Explain Mass Migration to Nutanix
Customers cite licensing changes and pricing as reasons for the move.
🚀 NASA Ditches Neo4j for Memgraph Due to Costs
Space agency switches graph databases in a move to cut spending.
📦 Nutanix Shifts Cloud Strategy – Adds Containerized Services + External Storage
Company doubles down on flexibility and cloud-native architecture.
💼 Business
🔍 VC Giant Insight Partners Confirms Investor Data Theft
Cyberattack exposes sensitive investor details from one of the top VC firms.
🇺🇸 Amazon Responds to Tariffs by Displaying Cost Hikes
A bold move in the tariff tug-of-war with the Trump administration.
⚖️ Elon Musk’s Longtime VC Sues Former Employer
Dispute follows a dramatic firing and legal fallout.
💽 Trump Admin to Roll Back Biden’s AI Chip Restrictions
New policy shift could reshape AI hardware supply chains.
⚠️ Data Centers Warn Trump’s Renewables Crackdown Hurts AI
Operators say clean energy cuts will cripple future AI growth.
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
📉 AI Use Can Hurt Your Professional Reputation, Study Finds
New research reveals that over-relying on AI could make you look bad.
🛑 OpenAI Retires GPT-4 Model – The End of an AI Era
Farewell to the model that shook up the tech world.
👩💼 OpenAI Hires Instacart CEO as Chief of Applications
Fidji Simo steps in to lead a new division focused on real-world AI use cases.
📊 Study: Time Saved by AI Offset by Extra Work for Many
AI creates as much busywork as it eliminates, the study says.
🕵️ Claude AI Now Spends Up to 45 Minutes Researching Before Answering
Anthropic’s Claude becomes more thoughtful—at the cost of time.
🧩 Misc
🔓 Windows RDP Lets You Log In with Revoked Passwords – Microsoft Unbothered
Security experts are baffled by Microsoft’s response.
🧠 Windows 11 Start Menu Overhaul + AI-Powered Settings Finder Coming Soon
A smarter interface and deeper AI integration on the horizon.
🧱 Linux Kernel Drops Support for 486 & Early 586 Processors
Goodbye to some of the oldest supported chips in computing history.
💰 NSO Ordered to Pay $167M for WhatsApp Hack
A major ruling against the spyware firm behind Pegasus.
📡 Millions of AirPlay Devices Vulnerable to Wi-Fi Exploits
"AirBorne" bug enables remote code execution over Wi-Fi.
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