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RIP AOL dial-up (1991-2025) 📞💀 AOL dial-up just flat-lined after 34 years. Pour one out for that iconic screech symphony. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗶𝗻 ByteSize: - Google's teaching Chromebooks to read faces (because typing is so 2024) - Hackers turned Brazilian gov sites into their personal art project - Gemini AI is having an existential crisis… and honestly, same. - Someone got DOOM running in a PDF because why not 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝘀: Your car insurance app thinks you're speed-running Fast & Furious, and the FBI just became tech support for 4,200 Windows PCs. Get the full scoop in less time than dial-up → https://e-e.beehiiv.com/

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 🛴 In this week’s ByteSize, we cover how the state-sponsored actors exploiting CVE-2025-21479 had more time with your GPU than you did. We also break down why CISA deadlines are more like suggestions and how your vendor will "test and tweak" these patches with the urgency of a sloth on Ambien. 𝗔𝗟𝗦𝗢 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘: ⚡𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱'𝘀 "𝗢𝗼𝗽𝘀" — Qualcomm vulnerabilities so obvious they might as well have had welcome mats ⚡𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝘀 "𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲" — Like a Ferrari with no engine (BYOG: Bring Your Own GPU ⚡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝟭𝟭'𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗯𝗮𝗿 — Microsoft thinks your system tray needs emotional support ⚡ 𝗖𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼'𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 — Proving passwords are meaningless when someone's charming enough ⚡ 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝟭𝟬% — When your yields are technically double digits 🤖 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://e-e.beehiiv.com/

Cybersecurity incidents are escalating faster than your mom forwarding a tech support scam email. While you were dealing with Windows updates, three major attacks dominated the headlines 🤖 A U.S. city needed military backup 🤖 A Russian airline lost 12TB of data 🤖 A French telecom's "secure" network that wasn't We cover it all in this week’s ByteSize — plus the stories that matter to your infrastructure: → UK government extends cloud deals by £1.65B after missing deadlines (𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦) → Elon accidentally leaks Tesla's $16.5B Samsung chip deal (𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 = 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳) → NordVPN launches spam protection as UK VPN usage explodes thanks to new restrictions → ChatGPT passes "I'm not a robot" tests while narrating its humanity proof Get the full intel (plus a quick breakdown of Google's latest privacy experiment) in this week's ByteSize → https://e-e.beehiiv.com/

Wow. We couldn’t believe it either. A browser company (FireFox) actually fixed a bug this week! 🥁 𝘣𝘢 𝘥𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘴𝘴 Of course, one functioning piece of software means the universe had to balance things out with maximum chaos elsewhere… 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻, 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗱: 🎭 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙛𝙩 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 → Screenshots everything you do → Sends it to their servers → Calls it a "companion" (sure, Jan) 💸 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙤𝙭 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙥𝙬𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 $380𝙈 → Hacker: "Can I have the password?" → IT: "Sure! It's Welcome123!" → Surprised Pikachu face 🩻 𝙁𝘿𝘼'𝙨 𝘼𝙄 𝙜𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙪𝙚 → Fabricates entire medical studies → Confidently recommends fake research → "Trust me,bro.. I'm an AI doctor" 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦: Nuclear secrets stored next to birthday party invites, VPN company forgets what VPNs do, and "vibe coding" is apparently worth more than your house 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://e-e.beehiiv.com/

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If the apocalypse had a newsletter, it would look surprisingly similar to this week's tech news roundup. (Pssst.... If you haven't already, subscribe to Bytesize – https://e-e.beehiiv.com/) Just dropped our latest ByteSize newsletter with stories that'll make your CPU fans spin: 📌 Newspapers finally found a way to die faster than print subscriptions – Lee Enterprises got hit with ransomware that had them scrambling like interns who crashed the server 📌 An asteroid named 2024 YR4 (basically named after one of Elon's kids) has NASA debating between a gentle space nudge or going full Die Hard. 📌 Meta building undersea cables longer than Earth's circumference – because Mark Zuckerberg won't rest until your aunt's bot-hacked posts load at light speed across five continents 📌 Reddit adding paid subreddits in 2025, because arguing with strangers should apparently be a premium experience From Windows migration tools that might actually work (we're as shocked as you are) to job listings paying Squid Game-level money to build UIs with REACT, this week's tech news is equal parts brilliant and terrifying.

In today's episode of 'Tech Criminals Making Bad Life Choices'… This week's tech news reads like a sitcom: 📌 Hackers's latest lesson: Location, location, location… A ransomware gang behind 1,000+ attacks thought a beach resort in Thailand was the perfect hideout. (It wasn't.) Hey, you know the saying: Phuket around – and you find out. 📌 North Korean scammers tried infiltrating a Silicon Valley security startup using deepfakes so bad they made Windows 95 graphics look like IMAX. (It didn't work.) The cherry on top: The company targeted literally builds anti-AI-vulnerability tools! But wait, there's more: Microsoft hands off their $20B AR goggle project like a game of hot potato and Tumblr is making an effortless comeback – literally. Oh, and watch our EE community tackle Linux puzzles and Windows 11 VM drama in real time. Need your weekly fix of tech's craziest stories? Join the smartest tech newsletter in your inbox. ByteSize drops in your inbox every Tuesday. 👉 Subscribe here: https://e-e.beehiiv.com/

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