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The FBI's cyber division is sounding a loud alarm over China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem, with assistant director Brett Leatherman calling it, in his words, out of control. The warning comes as one alleged Chinese cyber contractor was extradited to the United States over the weekend, a rare and significant development in an ongoing campaign of state-linked intrusions that Washington says has grown far too brazen to ignore.
Shifting to personal security, OpenAI has rolled out an opt-in protection layer for ChatGPT users that leans heavily on passkeys and tightens account recovery options considerably. Notably, chats belonging to accounts enrolled in this feature are excluded from training data, which raises a quiet but important question about what that implies for everyone who hasn't opted in.
And in a corner of the tech world that's equal parts clever and petty, a blog post making the rounds on Hacker News explores what the author calls spite apps — software built not to fill a market gap, but to settle a score. The piece frames them as the Latte Larry's of the app economy, and honestly, as a lens for understanding founder motivation, it's more revealing than most business school case studies.
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