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In a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, Menendez and Senators Cory Booker, Alex Padilla, and Catherine Cortez Masto called on the IRS to provide taxpayers with plain language instructions in multiple languages on how to complete the process of deleting their selfie. The IRS announced last week that it will no longer be using ID.me facial recognition software after signing an $86 million contract with the company, adding in a statement that it will “transition away from using a third-party service for facial recognition to help authenticate people creating new online accounts....

Then, in February, the Russian invasion of Ukraine delivered another global shock, further disrupting supply chains and pushing up energy prices. For businesses, the consequent rise in inflation and threat of recession has added further pressure after a difficult two-and-a-half years. The pandemic drove many changes in the relationships between businesses and their customers and employees – most notably a shift towards online and remote rather than in-person interaction. Last year, ZDNet outlined how digital transformation had “proved its worth during the pandemic, with more digitally mature businesses generally proving resilient in the face of serious disruption”....

The results follow a Q3 report in which a disappointing outlook sent the stock down over 40% the next day. The report sent DocuSign shares down by about 13% in late trading. CEO Dan Springer noted that the company last year “grew revenues by 45% and billings by 37% year-over year, while generating record operating and cash flow margins. Added Springer, Spring promised in December, after the disappointing outlook, to “turn the ship....

Deployed as in addition to the company’s standard Accelerated Ransomware Recovery module, Druva Curated Recovery mitigates the impact of a ransomware attack by building uncorrupted, unencrypted, and malware-free system recovery points to ensure successful recovery – even before one is needed, Druva VP of Products Prem Ananthakrishnan told ZDNet. Curated Recovery, announced Sept. 21, identifies anomalies as they show themselves in an IT system; when an intrusion is deployed, Druva quarantines the malware and, using intelligent automation, reinstates all system files in a state prior to when the ransomware was detected....

According to a recent forecast from Gartner, six million electric vehicles (which includes battery and plug-in hybrid models) are expected to ship this year. This is a two million unit increase from 2021’s four million shipped EVs. In addition, Gartner said that due to the increase in EVs, the number of global public EV chargers would reach a total of 2.1 million units this year – up from 1.6 million in 2021....

That’s the word from Thomas Erl, CEO of Arcitura Education, which provides technology skills training to thousands of professionals across the globe, and co-author of A Field Guide to Digital Transformation. “It’s a new era for enterprise architects,” he says. Their roles are being transformed along with the business, Erl, who has written extensively about EA over the years, explained in a recent interview. “Their lives have been impacted significantly,” he says....

The games developer is making an appeal of the federal court’s broader decision, which mostly sided with Apple. In that judgment, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected Epic’s claims that Apple was a monopoly. “Success is not illegal,” Gonzales Rogers wrote in her judgment. She also said that Apple did not act anti-competitively in removing Fortnite from the App Store, finding that the games developer violated its developer agreements when it introduced a new payment system that sidestepped the iPhone maker’s payment systems and in-app purchase commissions....

The DMA will require a massive change in how tech giants handle messages that today are better than SMS with features like file-sharing and video, but also don’t do what SMS does: transmit messages to any device based on a phone number. The proposed law is aimed at improving interoperability between Google’s Android Messages app, Apple’s iOS iMessage, and Facebook’s WhatsApp as well as smaller messaging apps, like Discord. “EU lawmakers agreed that the largest messaging services (such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage) will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms, if they so request,” the European Parliament said in a statement....

This week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Stephen Defiore, a Florida resident, accepted “multiple bribes” of up to $500 per day to perform the switches required to reroute phone numbers in SIM-swapping. SIM-swapping is quickly becoming a serious issue for telecommunications firms – made worse when employees, who have access to internal systems – are involved. These attacks require either internal help or the use of social engineering to convince a carrier to reroute calls and text messages from one handset to another....

With either disbelief or embarrassment. Steve Ballmer is still at it, expressing himself in ways that seem simultaneously unbelievable and unnatural. It’s his thing, I suppose. Even if some find his aggressive thigh-grabbing a little much. Having left Microsoft, Ballmer took another then-mediocre brand – the Los Angeles Clippers – and turned it into an improved mediocre brand. (Disclosure: Golden State Warriors fan.) You, though, will be wondering whether he’s found sufficient excitement being an NBA franchise owner....

Haugen testified that Facebook takes down the “bare minimum” when it comes to harmful content, especially when content comes in languages that are not spoken prominently in developed countries as there is minimal criticism from these underrepresented users. “It can consistently underinvest in safety, and particularly, it really under invests in safety outside the United States because, disproportionately, their safety budget is spent on paving the United States,” Haugen said....

The apps were discovered in the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store over the course of the last year, posing as popular types of software. According to Meta, four in 10 of the apps posed as photo editors, while others posed as games, VPNs, health trackers, business applications, flashlight enhancers and other services to trick users into downloading them. Users who downloaded the malicious apps were asked to log in with their Facebook account before they could use the features they were promised – and if the user entered their username and password, it handed their credentials to the attackers....

Choosing the best site for you starts with finding coding websites focused on the programming language you want to learn. But you’ll also need to factor in price point, time commitment, and flexibility. Read on to compare our top picks. Why learn to code? The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects faster-than-average growth for computer and information systems management and web development roles until 2030. If you hope to change careers, make more money, or land a coding job, now may be a good time to learn programming....

The alert explains that Hive is affiliate-operated ransomware first seen in June that deploys “multiple mechanisms to compromise business networks, including phishing emails with malicious attachments to gain access and Remote Desktop Protocol to move laterally once on the network.” “After compromising a victim network, Hive ransomware actors exfiltrate data and encrypt files on the network. The actors leave a ransom note in each affected directory within a victim’s system, which provides instructions on how to purchase the decryption software....

The latest release of Firefox arrives today for Windows, Mac and Linux on the desktop, as well as Android and iOS on mobile. On the desktop, Firefox 100 brings two main usability improvements. Picture-in-Picture (PiP), introduced in 2019, allows video to be displayed in a separate window that persists independently of the browser so that users can switch between tabs and still see a video while they’re doing something else....

The central banks of Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines would look to “enhance cooperation on payment connectivity to support faster, cheaper, more transparent, and more inclusive cross-border payments”. The Memorandum of Understanding was inked by Bank Indonesia, Bank Negara Malaysia, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Bank of Thailand, and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders’ Summit held this week in Bali, Indonesia. The Regional Payment Connectivity pact is touted as an important move to drive economic recovery and inclusive growth across the Asean region, with cross-border payment connectivity key to facilitating cross-border trade, investment, tourism, and other economic activities....

The company’s forecast for the full year’s revenue was above consensus. The report sent Five9 shares down 15% in late trading. CEO and Rowan Trollope said the company was “pleased to report that we finished the year with excellent results for the fourth quarter.” Said Trollope, “Our results were driven by the growing market adoption of our AI and Automation offerings, in addition to the success we have made in our march up market, as prospective enterprise customers turn to Five9 for the reliable and innovative platform we have built as a company....

Swan is joining the firm as a Growth Operating Partner, helping the firm identify and pursue new investments, serving on boards, and providing guidance to founders in the VC firm’s portfolio. Andreessen Horowitz has approximately $7.9 billion in regulatory assets under management across two Growth Funds. Swan was the CFO of Intel when he was promoted to interim CEO in 2018, following the abrupt resignation of then-CEO Brian Krzanich. After a six-month search for a replacement CEO, Swan took the role on a permanent basis in January 2019....

RedLine is a relatively common malware that steals all of the usernames and passwords it finds throughout an infected system. Fortinet said the RedLine Stealer variant in this instance steals stored credentials for VPN applications like NordVPN, OpenVPN, and ProtonVPN. “FortiGuard Labs recently came across a curiously named file, ‘Omicron Stats.exe’ which turned out to be a variant of RedLine Stealer malware. While we have not been able to identify the infection vector for this particular variant, we believe that it is being distributed via email,” the company said in its report, noting that the issue affects Windows users....

A brief breakdown of your options Each kind of internet connection is defined by its technology – how the connection is uploading and downloading internet information. DSL: Short for “digital subscriber line,” DSL uses existing telephone wires to send data between your computer and the internet. Information is transmitted on a different frequency than voice calls. DSL is widely available and connects directly from the ISP to your home. Cable: Data is transmitted via electricity through coaxial cables built out in neighborhoods for internet or cable TV....