OpenAI’s internal messaging system was hacked in 2023
The New York Times wrote that a hacker gained access to important details about OpenAI’s AI technologies, after he intercepted some discussions in OpenAI’s dedicated online forum. When the company’s board was made aware of the incident, it reportedly tried to suppress the news.
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT app for Mac was storing conversations in plain text
The ChatGPT desktop app for macOS allowed users to chat about emails, screenshots, files or anything from their screen. Recently, it was discovered that the app was storing all user conversations in plain text inside an unprotected file location. After this security issue was pointed out, OpenAI has updated it to encrypt the locally stored private data.
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More than 384,000 websites are getting code from a sketchy code library
Sansec alerted that code hosted on the Polyfill domain had been modified to redirect users to malicious sites. The code changes were made such that the redirections only took place at certain times of the day and only against visitors who met certain criteria.
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WhatsApp is testing a personalized AI avatar generator
The feature, which is still in its beta version, could produce images based on text prompts with user images. It will be powered by Meta’s Llama AI model.
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New products
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Honor MagicPad 2
MagicPad 2 will have a 12.3-inch OLED screen, Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor, 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. It will be launched on July 12.
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Realme 13 Pro+
The phone will have a 6.7-inch OLED display, Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 processor, up to 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of storage. It will come with a 5,050 mAh battery
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