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Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Apple / Benj Edwards) On Monday, Apple announced it would be integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT AI assistant into upcoming versions of its iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems. It paves…

“Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last month, Wells Fargo terminated over a dozen bank employees following an investigation into claims of faking work activity on their computers, according to a Bloomberg report. A Financial…

China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says

Enlarge Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing…

Apple and OpenAI currently have the most misunderstood partnership in tech

Enlarge / He isn't using an iPhone, but some people talk to Siri like this. On Monday, Apple premiered "Apple Intelligence" during a wide-ranging presentation at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino,…

Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As many as 165 customers of cloud storage provider Snowflake have been compromised by a group that obtained login credentials through information-stealing malware, researchers said Monday. On Friday, Lending…

Apple unveils “Apple Intelligence” AI features for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

Enlarge (credit: Apple) On Monday, Apple debuted "Apple Intelligence," a new suite of free AI-powered features for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia that includes creating email summaries, generating images and emoji, and…

Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend

Enlarge A critical vulnerability in the PHP programming language can be trivially exploited to execute malicious code on Windows devices, security researchers warned as they urged those affected to take action before the…

VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”

Enlarge (credit: Getty) After acquiring VMware, Broadcom swiftly enacted widespread changes that resulted in strong public backlash. A new survey of 300 director-level IT workers at companies that are customers of North American…

7,000 LockBit decryption keys now in the hands of the FBI, offering victims hope

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The FBI is urging victims of one of the most prolific ransomware groups to come forward after agents recovered thousands of decryption keys that may allow the recovery of…

DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service

Enlarge (credit: DuckDuckGo) On Thursday, DuckDuckGo unveiled a new "AI Chat" service that allows users to converse with four mid-range large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral in an interface…