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Microsoft drops the requirement for having 300 users or more and opens co-pilot to companies of any size, there’s a huge increase in visits to “piracy sites”, Open source code and online hacking tools are fueling growth in supply chain attacks and  Apple is now number 1 in smartphone sales.   All this and more

Apple will split its app store in two for the EU.  Wells Fargo leaps ahead in conversational AI. The International Monetary Fund is projecting huge losses in jobs to AI.  Researchers discover that AI models can be trained to deceive you.   All this and more on the “oh what a tangled web we weave”

This episode covers reports with warnings to application developers from Recorded Future and Gitlab; how an accounting company was victimized by a phishing message

Microsoft users hit a rough patch – literally.  The EU is challenging Apple to allow third party app stores on its devices, eBay is fined 3 million dollars for harassing a blogger who posted an unfavourable review and surprise, surprise, AI girlfriend apps are sneaking into the GPT store.   I’m your host Jim Love,

SHOWNOTES:  Hi.  And welcome to Hashtag Trending – the weekend edition.  I’m your host Jim Love. My guest for this week and I probably have met professionally, but I don’t think I really got to know him until we got on a call – arranged by our associate producer who sets this stuff up. I

This episode features a discussion about the cybersecurity job market

This episode reports on scams aimed at employees, a report on the Medusa ransomware group, the latest on the number of data breach victim

Microsoft overtakes Apple as the most valuable company. Broadcom stirs up a hornets nest when it dumps VMWare partners. The U.S. government demands that hospitals improve cybersecurity if they want government funding and Google is not only axing people, it’s dropping services as well.    These and more top tech stories on this edition of