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As expected, Apple has released iOS 16.3.1 and iPadOS 16.3.1, bringing the phone and tablet up to date with the same version released for tvOS and HomePod last week. There are three bugs addressed according to the release notes: While those bug fixes are welcome, there are a couple of critical security patches that make this a must-have update.

ChatGPT is all the tech world can talk about lately, and with good reason. The AI-powered tool is impressive, but there are plenty of worries too — copyright infringement, plagiarism, use in classrooms, even lost jobs, so it's no wonder people who write for a living are stressing about AI that can seemingly write well.

What is public Wi-Fi? Public Wi-Fi can be found in popular public places like airports, coffee shops, malls, restaurants, and hotels — and it allows you to access the Internet for free. These “hotspots” are so widespread and common that people frequently connect to them without thinking twice.

Ever since Steve Jobs rolled out the iMac to a captive audience in 1998, Apple's head of hardware design has been one of the most prestigious and important roles at the company. Now in a major policy shift, Apple won't be naming a new design czar to replace Evans Hankey, who has held the position since 2019. According to a Bloomberg report, a core group of about 20 industrial designers will now report to chief operating officer Jeff Williams, who has been with the company since 1998.

When iOS 16.3 arrives, it could have two big fixes that iPhone users have been waiting for. According to reports, Apple will patch a problem with the iPhone 14 display and an issue with the new Home app architecture. Over the past several weeks, some iPhone 14 users have complained about horizontal lines flashing across their screens. According to reports on social media and discussion boards, the lines appear when the iPhone wakes up or restarts.

The end of 2022 has been a little disappointing for Mac fans as the rumoured launches of the MacBook Pro and Mac mini never materialised, but 2023 is going to make up for it. According to LeaksApplePro, Apple is preparing several Macs to make the jump to an M3 processor in late 2023: the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, 24-inch iMac, and Mac mini. That would be a fairly quick shift away from the M2.

2023 may be the year the password finally dies. Following Apple's announcement that Safari in macOS 13 and iOS 16 will support the standard, Google has confirmed that passkeys are now supported in Chrome Stable M108. Passkeys are a simpler and more secure login standard for websites that lets you use an encrypted key rather than a password to authenticate apps and websites.

A claims that Apple has once again shifted its ambitions around producing its own vehicle. According to the report, the car's target launch date has been pushed back about a year, to 2026, and it won't have its most lauded feature. The vision for the entire project appears to have shifted. Dubbed Project Titan within the company, the Apple car was said to be a fully autonomous vehicle, without even a steering wheel or pedals.

Credit: Dreamstime For the eighth time this year, Google has issued an emergency Chrome for Mac update that patches a severe security flaw that has been exploited in the wild. All users should immediately update to version 107.0.5304.121. The update contains a single fix to a heap buffer overflow in GPU. The CVE program tracks the vulnerability, which was reported by Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group on November 22, as CVE-2022-4135.

Cybercrime risk in Australia isn’t just increasing – it’s exploding at an almost exponential rate. As reported by the ABC, recent ACCC data shows that Australians lost more than $47 million per month from January to September this year, based on reports to the government body. That’s a 90 per cent increase in losses compared with the same period last year. With just 13 per cent of victims reporting their losses, the actual losses to cyber crime are likely to be vastly higher.