Economy
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OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure
On Monday, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced it will remain under the control of its founding nonprofit board, scrapping its controversial plan…
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Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack
Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored by malware that executes malicious…
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Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost
Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, as the company helps drive…
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Claude’s AI research mode now runs for up to 45 minutes before delivering reports
On Thursday, Anthropic announced significant upgrades to its AI assistant Claude, extending its research capabilities to run for up to…
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Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have…
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Why MFA is getting easer to bypass and what to do about it
An entire cottage industry has formed around phishing attacks that bypass some of the most common forms of multifactor authentication…
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Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.
From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote…
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Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi
Apple’s AirPlay feature enables iPhones and MacBooks to seamlessly play music or show photos and videos on other Apple devices…
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The end of an AI that shocked the world: OpenAI retires GPT-4
One of the most influential—and by some counts, notorious—AI models yet released will soon fade into history. OpenAI announced on…
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Trump admin lashes out as Amazon considers displaying tariff costs on its sites
This morning, Punchbowl News reported that Amazon was considering listing the cost of tariffs as a separate line item on…
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