OpenAI launches group chat feature globally for up to 20 users
AI Assistant Shifts from Solo Sidekick to Collaborative Team Member OpenAI has confirmed the global rollout of its new Group Chat feature for ChatGPT, allowing up to 20 people to collaborate with the AI assistant in a single, shared conversation. The move signals a major strategic pivot, transforming the world's most popular chatbot from a personal productivity tool into a powerful, shared workspace. Following a successful pilot in select Asia-Pacific markets, the feature is
Vulnerability in WhatsApp exposed profiles of 3.5 billion users: Researchers confirm flaw in contact discovery API allowed mass scraping of phone numbers, profile photos, and status text
A team of IT security researchers from the University of Vienna and SBA Research has uncovered a severe privacy flaw in WhatsApp that allowed them to successfully enumerate and map the profiles of 3.5 billion active user accounts. That’s virtually the entire global user base. The flaw exploited a weakness in WhatsApp's contact discovery API, the mechanism designed to help users find which of their phone book contacts are also on the platform. The researchers demonstrated that
