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OpenAI's new 'Computer History' feature for Mac is designed to track your computer activity. It's meant to help ChatGPT understand your daily use, but the story highlights a major privacy risk. The tool creates unencrypted memory files on your Mac, which could be exploited by hackers to map out your digital life.
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