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March 17, 2026

US military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine | TechCrunch

Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training

Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal ​court for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its ‌artificial intelligence models.
Britannica said in the complaint, opens new tab filed on Friday that Microsoft-backed OpenAI used its online articles and encyclopedia and dictionary entries to teach its ​flagship chatbot ChatGPT to respond to human prompts and "cannibalized" Britannica's ​web traffic with AI-generated summaries of its content.