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A Hong Kong-based finance professional at a multinational was reportedly swindled out of $25 million (HK$200 million) of company money when scammers created a deepfake of his London-based chief financial officer in a video conference call. The Hong Konger joined a vidchat in which his CFO appeared – but appeared a l...

Two of India's tech leaders, both of which have been widely hailed as exemplars of local entrepreneurialism, are in deep trouble. Let's start with Paytm, a payment service that accounts for over 45 percent of transfers made using India's Unified Payments Interface. For hundreds of millions of Indian citizens, and te...

Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government. The announcement (Japanese, machine translated) last week from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry brings decades of physical media submission requirements in Jap...

Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, alongside two software consultancies, celebrated a moment of unity and common purpose on Thursday with the announcement of Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability. The process began last year by gathering proposals for web technologies tha...

Exclusive On Monday Dell is expected to send a "Return To Office" notification to all employees, a source familiar with the matter has told The Register. Dell last year implemented a more limited version of this policy, directing those living within an hour's commute of a nearby office to work from there at least th...

Interview It will soon be half a century since NASA's Voyager probes were launched on a tour of the solar system. The reason for their unprecedented longevity is unprecedented, but modern realities mean that we might not see their like again. Dr Garry E Hunt was one of the original imaging team members and tells The...

JetBrains introduced an AI assistant in December to help programmers write code. Now the biz is trying to figure out how to allow its customers to get rid of it. "JetBrains AI Assistant is similar to GitHub Copilot, but it’s deeply integrated into JetBrains development environments (IDEs), code editors, and other pr...

Microsoft's adoption of Rust continues apace if a posting on the IT titan's careers website is anything to go by. Although headcount at Microsoft might currently be down – by two percent compared to the previous year – recruitment persists at the Windows giant. In this case, the company is forming a team of Rustacea...

Mozilla on Thursday accused Microsoft of forcing its Edge browser down the throats of Windows users through "dark patterns" – design elements geared to push people towards certain decisions. In a report [PDF] titled, "Over the Edge: How Microsoft's Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice", the public benefit b...

An investigation of Tesla power steering problems was this week upgraded to an engineering analysis after initial probing turned up thousands more failures. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) began inspecting power steering failures in 2023 Tesla Model 3 and Y vehicles in late July after rece...

Intel has seemingly postponed the completion date of its planned Ohio manufacturing site to late 2026, blaming the current weakness of the semiconductor market and delays in receiving CHIPS Act subsidy cash. The Santa Clara chipmaker announced two years ago that it was investing more than $20 billion in the creation...

The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule. In a policy statement [PDF] published yesterday by Biden's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the administration said it "stro...

Updated Bad news for OS/2 fans: the Hobbes OS/2 software archive is to be shuttered once and for all in April. The Hobbes OS/2 Archive, run as a service by the Department of Information & Communication Technologies at the US New Mexico State University, has announced its impending demise. As of April 15, the site wi...

While the tech sector job losses ticker has clocked up a global body count of 150,000 so far for 2023, those looking to hire IT staff are not out of the woods yet, according to Gartner. The market watcher has found demand for technology talent still significantly exceeds supply. According to a Gartner survey of arou...

The FCC wants to make AI-powered robocalls illegal and has warned of a rising wave of scams from voice-cloning technology. On Thursday, Jessica Rosenworcel, boss of America's communications watchdog, said machine-learning software could potentially convince people to do things like donating money to fraudulent cause...

Chinese attackers are preparing to "wreak havoc" on American infrastructure and "cause societal chaos" in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US House committee on Wednesday. "The fact that PRC hackers are targeting our critical infrastructure, water treatment plants, our electrical grid, our oil and ...

Old Windows 10 hardware is struggling to open some recently updated Microsoft applications, giving anyone running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware a glimpse of their potential future. Microsoft regularly updates Windows' inbox apps via its Store. Rather than wait for a release of the operating system, it can push ...

The chip wars between Washington and Beijing keep grinding on with more than a dozen Chinese tech companies now being added to a list of entities claimed by the Department of Defense (DoD) to be working for the military. The update adds more than a dozen technology companies, including memory chip manufacturer Yangt...

Ivanti has finally released the first round of patches for vulnerability-stricken Connect Secure and Policy Secure gateways, but in doing so has also found two additional zero-days, one of which is under active exploitation. The news comes days after Ivanti, which releases its patches on a staggered schedule, said t...

China's Volt Typhoon attackers used "hundreds" of outdated Cisco and NetGear routers infected with malware in an attempt to break into US critical infrastructure facilities, according to the Justice Department. On Tuesday news broke that the Feds had blocked the malicious network that was set up on end-of-life, US-b...

Computer scientists have found that misinformation generated by large language models (LLMs) is more difficult to detect than artisanal false claims hand-crafted by humans. Researchers Canyu Chen, a doctoral student at Illinois Institute of Technology, and Kai Shu, assistant professor in its Department of Computer S...

From teletext to pregnancy tests and even tractors, Doom has long been a target of hackers trying to get the seminal 1993 shooter running in the strangest of places. But this one frags them all. In a somewhat groundbreaking yet bizarre scientific feat, MIT biotechnology PhD student researcher Lauren "Ren" Ramlan has...

Updated Windows users, take notice: Microsoft's Edge browser is said to be actively importing open Chrome tabs and slurping other data from Google's browser without permission and even if the "feature" that makes that happen is disabled. Buried within Edge's browser settings on Windows PCs is code that goes well bey...

Google's parent company, Alphabet, has revealed it banked $3.0 billion by extending the working life of its hardware. Alphabet first decided to extend the life of its kit in 2021, when it stretched the life of servers from three to four years, and networking kit from four to five years. In 2023 it decided both types...