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Microsoft Executive Emails Hacked by Russian-Backed Group, Company Says

By Jane Nguyen Microsoft said on Friday that Russian hackers gained access to its corporate systems and stole some emails and documents belonging to the company’s senior executives. The tech company said in a blog post that its security team detected the intrusion on Jan. 12 and quickly shut it down. The group responsible for…

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Apple Releases Urgent Security Updates for iPhone After Hackers Exploit Gaps

By Tom Ozimek Apple has released urgent security updates for its iOS and other operating systems to patch against vulnerabilities that both the tech giant and U.S. cyber security officials say are being actively exploited by hackers. Apple’s security updates patch gaps in operating systems for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac products, as well as…

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OpenAI, Owner of ChatGPT, Fires CEO Sam Altman

By Aaron Pan Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, was fired, the company’s board of directors announced on Nov. 17.  Mr. Altman’s dismissal is unexpected and shocks the tech industry. “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his…

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New Emergency Security Warning For iPhones, Attacks Underway

By Jack Phillips Apple recently released emergency security patches for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and Apple Watches that target several  “zero-day” vulnerabilities that could leave a device open to spyware. According to several bulletins posted by Apple late last week, the security patches were rolled out for a number of products, including ones that use iOS and iPadOS 17.0.1,…

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Apple Announces Major Change to Its Latest iPhone Model

By Jack Phillips Apple Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its iPhone 15 and announced that its latest device will ditch Apple’s Lightning connector to the more common USB-C standard, which is universal. In the Cupertino, California, event, Apple showed videos of the USB-C charger being used and the iPhone’s upgraded charging port. An Apple narrator of one of the…

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Meta’s Twitter Alternative Sees Declining Engagement

By Efthymis Oraiopoulos The social media platform Threads, owned by Facebook’s Meta and being promoted as a Twitter competitor, is losing more and more users, while its leadership says that new features are coming to remedy the situation. Threads was launched in July and hit a peak of 100 million sign-ups initially. However, it has…

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‘Godfather of AI’ Speaks Out: AI Capable of Reason, May Seek Control

By Andrew Thornebrooke TORONTO—A leading mind in the development of artificial intelligence is warning that AI has developed a rudimentary capacity to reason and may seek to overthrow humanity. AI systems may develop the desire to seize control from humans as a way of accomplishing other preprogrammed goals, said Geoffrey Hinton, a professor of computer…

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