Security

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’re using ChatGPT for work — writing drafts, brainstorming, organizing ideas, building automations — your account contains more of your thinking than your email does. And most people protect it with nothing more than a password they’ve reused somewhere else. OpenAI just made it significantly harder for someone to break into your ChatGPT account. On April 30th, they launched a program called Advanced Account Security and partnered with Yubico, the company that makes those small physical security keys you may have seen tech people wear on their keychains. The setup takes about five minutes. Here’s exactly what it does and whether you should bother. ...

OpenAI just added something to ChatGPT that makes it way more useful — and way more concerning at the same time. You can now connect your bank accounts directly to ChatGPT. Your balances, your transactions, your subscriptions — all visible to the AI. You ask it “have I been spending more lately?” and it actually knows the answer. Convenient? Absolutely. But before you click “connect,” there’s something you should understand. ...