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OpenAI is pushing back hard against what it calls a meritless lawsuit from Apple, asking a federal judge to dismiss the case entirely. The ChatGPT maker argues Apple is dressing up ordinary product development information as trade secrets, and characterizing normal employee behavior as theft. The motion signals this fight is far from over.
Shifting from the courtroom to the criminal docket, federal prosecutors have charged Taj Tarsha, founder of an NFT startup, with misusing roughly ten million dollars raised from investors. Authorities say he misled backers and funneled funds toward personal expenses rather than the project they believed in. It's another reminder that the crypto space still carries serious accountability gaps.
And on the security front, open-source malware is quietly changing its targets. Researchers say attackers have moved away from noisy cryptomining operations toward something more calculated — harvesting credentials and secrets buried inside software dependencies. UK supply chains are increasingly in the crosshairs, and the shift from opportunistic to deliberate is what makes this threat genuinely harder to defend against.
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