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Tech News TL;DR

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

Cyber-Security

 Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play.

PowerSchool was previously hacked in August, months before the data breach.

X hit by 'massive cyberattack' amid Dark Storm's DDoS claims

Critical PHP RCE vulnerability mass exploited in new attacks.

Microsoft replaced the Remote Desktop app with the Windows App in May.

ClickFix attack delivers infostealers and RATs in fake Booking.com emails.

GitLab patches critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities.

Facebook discloses the FreeType 2 flaw exploited in attacks.

Artificial Intelligence

Google wants Gemini to get to know you better.

OpenAI calls for the US government to codify ‘fair use’ for AI training.

Meta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in France.

Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral.

AI coding assistant refuses to write code and tells the user to learn programming instead.

Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism.

Microsoft’s new AI, “Copilot for Gaming,” struggles to justify its existence.

Google’s Gemma 3 is an open-source, single-GPU AI with a 128K context window.

Misc

 Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft built for Windows 10 users.

Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon and insists you'll love a replacement.

As the Chromecast outage drags on, the fix could be days to weeks away.

Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset.

iRobot may be iDead in iYear.

Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam not to turn off that sweet Google search money.

Get off that old Firefox by Friday, or you'll be sorry, says Moz.

IBM Consulting workers told management want to 'more closely align pay, performance.'

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