Month: January 2024

Announcement by CEO Jamie Iannone follows wave of cuts in US tech after heavy hiring during pandemic The online retailer eBay Inc will cut about 1,000 roles, or an estimated 9% of its current workforce, the company said on Tuesday. “While we are making progress against our strategy, our overall headcount and expenses have outpaced …

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Promoters of the scheme, which collapsed owing millions, targeted countries such as Nepal, with claims some investors took out bank loans to buy packages Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The HyperVerse cryptocurrency scheme targeted investors in developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Pacific before its eventual …

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This new ‘spatial computing’ device is supposedly the most immersive way to watch TV – but major streamers aren’t building apps for it. Plus, Facebook’s AI god complex • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here It’s good to have friends. They come to your birthday party, offer …

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This survival adventure from a relatively small Japanese studio sold 5m copies within three days of its release. What in the name of Pikachu is going on? The new year has barely begun but it seems we already have 2024’s biggest game – and it’s not a multi-million dollar sci-fi extravaganza set in a vast …

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Voice cloning is ever more sophisticated – and can be used to impersonate a child and target their parents. So I have devised a new phone greeting for my teenagers A friend recently got duped by a scam text purporting to be from his middle daughter, and transferred £100 to an account to cover some …

AI voice-cloning is supercharging the scamming of parents. But I’ve got a foolproof solution | Zoe Williams Read More »

Data-corrupting flaws in hardware do exist – but most are quietly fixed without the public noticing, writes Alan Cox You published several letters arguing that computers themselves are reliable (Computers rarely go wrong, but computer systems often do, 17 January). The truth is somewhat less positive. While computer hardware is more reliable than most current …

Computers are not as reliable as many of us believe | Letter Read More »

Worries about impact on neighbouring schools of money for Malmesbury primary in Wiltshire, near Dyson’s campus A £6m donation from Sir James Dyson to help fund the expansion of his local state primary school has been approved by the government, despite concerns about the potential impact on neighbouring schools. The education secretary, Gillian Keegan, announced …

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Foreign minister Penny Wong says it will be a criminal offence to provide assets to Russian Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov after he was linked by authorities to the ‘compromise of the Medibank Private network’ in 2022. Defence minister Richard Marles says Wong’s decision to use Australia’s cyber sanction laws against Ermakov for his alleged role in …

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Government uses cyber sanctions powers under Magnitsky laws for first time to target Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov, alleged to be responsible for hack Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australia has used its new cyber sanctions powers for the first …

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Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr’s lawsuit claims he was misidentified as culprit of armed robbery and put in jail, where he says he was raped A 61-year-old man is suing Macy’s and the parent company of Sunglass Hut over the stores’ alleged use of a facial recognition system that misidentified him as the culprit behind an …

Facial recognition used after Sunglass Hut robbery led to man’s wrongful jailing, says suit Read More »