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The Morning After: OpenAI’s week of security issues
The biggest news stories this morning: FTC warns some PC manufacturers that they're violating right to repair rules, The most-delayed video game in history is finally available… on the Game Boy Advance, Texas court blocks ban on noncompete agreements.
Earlier this week, engineer and Swift developer Pedro José Pereira Vieito dug into OpenAI's Mac ChatGPT app and found that it was storing user conversations locally in plain text, rather than encrypting them. The New York Times reported that OpenAI technical program manager Leopold Aschenbrenner raised security concerns, arguing that the hack implied internal vulnerabilities. "Noncompete clauses keep wages low, suppress new ideas, and rob the American economy of dynamism," FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said when the rule was announced.
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