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A network of North Korean fake IT workers has been creating personas on GitHub to obtain remote engineering and full-stack blockchain developer positions in the US and Japan, threat monitoring firm Nisos warns. The GitHub personas, which are reusing matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content, claim to be in Asia, and some of them appear to be employed at small companies. The network employs the same tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) previously associated with North Korean fake IT workers, including their claims of experience, accounts on multiple employment platforms, digitally manipulated photos, and the use of the same email addresses…

Britain’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said on Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for an investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. “Overall, taking into account all of the available evidence […] the CMA does not believe that Microsoft currently controls OpenAI’s commercial policy, and instead exerts a high level of material influence over that policy,” the CMA wrote in its decision. “In other words there is no change of control giving rise to a relevant merger situation.” The CMA began investigating Microsoft’s partnership with…

The US Justice Department announced on Tuesday that two Venezuelan nationals were arrested and charged recently over their role in an ATM jackpotting scheme. In ATM jackpotting attacks, an ATM is hacked by installing a piece of malware on its hard drive or by replacing the drive with an infected device. The malware gives the attacker control over the ATM and causes it to dispense cash without the need to target a specific bank account.  The latest suspects identified and arrested by US authorities for conducting ATM jackpotting are David Jose Gomez-Cegarra, 24, and Jesus Segundo Hernandez-Gil, 19, both of…

Makers of the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound are cutting prices for people without insurance.Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said Wednesday that it will drop prices 23% for all doses of Wegovy. The new monthly price of $499, down from $650, takes effect immediately.Novo said the new pricing is available to both the uninsured and people who have insurance that doesn’t cover the weight-loss drugs.Last week, Eli Lilly said it would cut the monthly price of its starter dose of Zepbound to $349. The U.S. drugmaker also is making larger doses available for $499 through its self-pay program.Patients start taking…

A ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on Indian engineering firm Tata Technologies, threatening to leak 1.4 terabytes of data allegedly stolen from the company. The data appears to have been stolen in an incident that the subsidiary of Tata Motors disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Indian National Stock Exchange at the end of January. “The company has become aware of a ransomware incident that has affected a few of our IT assets. As a precautionary measure, some of the IT services were suspended temporarily and have now been restored,” Tata said (PDF) at the time.…

Wordwatch has announced the appointment of William Davenport as its new Managing Director.With his extensive experience in the sector, specifically through his 12-year tenure at Business Systems Ltd, William is poised to drive Wordwatch’s strategic growth initiatives. His prior role as Chief Sales Officer saw him significantly enhance the brand’s market presence through key client acquisitions and the development of Wordwatch’s dedicated channel partner program.Wordwatch specializes in integrating voice and digital communications data to streamline compliance management and reduce regulatory risks. The firm is at the forefront of helping regulated organisations modernise their compliance infrastructure, particularly as market demands and…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Farmers and meat producers across the U.S. can expect the new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and the retaliatory action from those countries to hurt their bottom lines by billions of dollars if they stay in place a while, and consumers could quickly see higher prices for produce and ground beef.But some of the impact on farmers might not be felt until the next harvest and some products might actually get cheaper in the short run for consumers if exports suffer. And the price of corn, wheat and soybeans accounts for relatively little of the…

Malaysia has become a hot spot for chip manufacturing due to increasing tensions between the U.S. and China, especially around the development of semiconductors used for AI applications. Predictably, tech firms around the world have been looking to diversify their source of chips, and ARM Holdings is now hoping to make the most of this opportunity. The SoftBank-backed chipmaker said on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with the Malaysian government to bolster the country’s chip design ecosystem. As part of the deal, Reuters reports that Malaysia will pay ARM $250 million over 10 years to buy its chip…

Chrome 134 and Firefox 136 were released to the stable channel on Tuesday with patches for dozens of vulnerabilities, including multiple high-severity bugs. Google rolled out Chrome 134 with 14 security fixes, including nine for security defects reported by external researchers. The most severe of these is CVE-2025-1914, a high-severity out-of-bounds read bug in the V8 JavaScript engine that earned its two reporting researchers a $7,000 bug bounty reward. The latest Chrome update resolves six externally reported medium-severity flaws, including an improper limitation in DevTools, a use-after-free in Profiles, improper implementations in Browser UI and Media Stream, and out-of-bounds reads…

Sedgwick, a global entity in claims management and technology solutions, has announced the promotion of Kumar Siva to Chief Operating Officer in Canada. Kumar Siva steps into this role after serving as Senior Vice President for third-party administration (TPA) services and desktop solutions since 2023.Sedgwick specialises in providing comprehensive claims management, loss adjusting, and technology-driven solutions across various sectors. The company is renowned for its innovative approach to handling complex challenges in the insurance services sector, ensuring clients receive top-tier support and solutions.Kumar Siva brings over two decades of experience in the insurance services industry to his new role. Prior…