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Hackers are hosting fake invoices on Google Apps Script, experts warnThe invoices are sent via emailVictims are redirected to a fake Microsoft 365 login pageThreat actors have been seen abusing Google Apps Script to launch convincing phishing attacks and steal people’s Microsoft 365 login details.Cybersecurity researchers Cofense recently spotted one such campaign where Google Apps Script used to host a fake invoice.First, the crooks would prepare the usual fake invoice phishing email. That email would carry a link to the invoice which, when hovered (or clicked) would point to script[.]google[.]com. That way, the criminals would create a false sense of legitimacy with the victims who might think the invoice was actually coming from Google or a Google-affiliated service.M365 credentials Clicking on the link opens a small landing page stating “you have one pending download available” and a “preview” button. #The button leads to the actual malicious page, which mimics the Microsoft 365 login page, almost to the last detail. Those who don’t spot the trick and try to log in, end up relaying their login credentials straight to the attackers.To better hide their tracks, the crooks set up the page so that it redirects back to the actual Microsoft 365 site, as soon as the login credentials are provided.Google Apps Script is a cloud-based scripting platform that lets users automate tasks and extend Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Drive using JavaScript.For example, a teacher could have a Google Sheets file with student grades, and by using Google Apps Script, they would be able to send personalized emails automatically, saving hours of manual work.“Phishing emails like these are a good example of how attackers take advantage of legitimate domains to make their scams look more convincing,” Cofense’s researchers warned. “It is important to stay vigilant and educate employees about the risk of phishing attacks."You might also likeThis ancient browser security flaw affecting Safari, Chrome and Firefox is finally being fixedTake a look at our guide to the best authenticator appWe've rounded up the best password managers

The UK is experiencing an AI boom, fueled by the government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, and over £14 billion in private investment. This surge in funding is accelerating AI adoption across industries, driving innovation, boosting productivity, and creating significant job opportunities. Fueling innovation, and economic growth, AI is transforming industries, driving productivity and creating a number of job opportunities. However, while businesses are racing to adopt and implement AI, the workforce skillset is struggling to keep pace.AI skills now account for 40% of the UK’s most pressing tech talent shortages, making it one of the largest gaps in the sector. This highlights a growing challenge: education and training programs simply aren’t evolving fast enough to meet the demands of an AI-driven economy.What is the role of businesses in AI upskilling? Traditional education systems cannot keep pace with AI's rapid evolution. Waiting for universities to modernize their AI curricula is not a viable strategy for businesses. Instead, companies must take proactive steps to upskill their workforce, ensuring they have the necessary AI expertise to remain competitive.Some organizations are already progressing in this direction, establishing in-house AI training programs, ranging from foundational AI literacy courses to specialized technical training for employees in data science, machine learning, and AI applications. These programs can be delivered through online modules, workshops, and mentorship.Businesses should also collaborate with AI education platforms, boot camps, and certification programs to offer employees structured learning opportunities. Industry-recognized certifications can help workers gain relevant, up-to-date skills that align with real-world applications. Encouraging AI-skilled employees to mentor colleagues can accelerate knowledge transfer.Taking mentorship one step further, organizations can create AI centers of excellence, where experts guide teams on AI best practices, ethical considerations, and emerging trends. Offering incentives such as financial support for AI-related courses, internal recognition, and career progression opportunities can motivate employees to upskill. Embedding AI expertise into performance evaluations can also reinforce its strategic importance. By investing in AI upskilling today, businesses can bridge the talent gap, drive innovation, and future-proof their workforce.What is the role of business-academia collaboration when it comes to bridging the AI skills gap? The disconnect between higher education and industry needs is a persistent issue in the AI skills debate. Universities and technical colleges often struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of AI advancements, meaning graduates enter the workforce with outdated skills or theoretical knowledge that lacks real-world applicability.Businesses have a responsibility to actively engage with universities and technical colleges to help shape educational programs. By integrating real-world AI applications, case studies, and industry projects into coursework, students can develop job-ready skills. But collaboration must go beyond one-off partnerships. Establishing long-term advisory relationships between businesses and academia can ensure that curricula evolve alongside technological advancements.Beyond this, businesses can work with academic institutions to develop AI certification programs that validate students’ expertise in key areas such as machine learning, natural language processing, and AI ethics. These certifications should be recognized across industries to standardize AI proficiency levels and extend beyond the classroom into the workplace.Practical, hands-on experience is also essential. Companies should provide structured mentorship and opportunities for students to work on real-world AI challenges. Offering experience through internships, apprenticeships, and AI research collaborations ensures students gain practical exposure.I would add that it’s not just about training individuals. The UK’s AI adoption efforts are also hindered by outdated IT infrastructure, making it harder for organizations to implement AI effectively. Without a modernized digital ecosystem, even a well-trained workforce will struggle to deploy AI solutions at scale.Businesses and academia must work together not only to prepare the next generation of AI talent but also to modernize digital infrastructures so that organizations can scale AI solutions efficiently.Integrating AIAI is no longer just for data scientists. How can we integrate AI fundamentals into both higher education and professional development programs?AI’s impact is broad and far-reaching, spanning a huge swathe of industries, job roles, and everyday decision-making. To capitalize on AI’s impact, we must ensure AI knowledge and proficiency become mainstream and integrate AI fundamentals into both higher education and professional development programs.AI education should start early, with foundational courses integrated into university and college curricula across disciplines. Business, healthcare, finance, and law students, for example, should be equipped with AI knowledge relevant to their fields.Many professionals interact with AI-driven tools but lack a deep understanding of how they work. Companies should offer AI literacy programs tailored to non-technical employees, covering topics such as responsible AI use, bias mitigation, and automation. Governments, businesses, and educational institutions ideally collaborate to promote AI literacy at a societal level.This can include free AI learning resources, workshops, and public discussions on AI’s ethical and economic implications. AI education should be accessible and flexible. Short, modular AI courses delivered through online platforms can help professionals upskill at their own pace without committing to full-time study.Crucially, AI literacy isn’t just about ensuring businesses see returns on AI investments, it’s about empowering individuals to participate in an AI-driven economy. Without widespread AI knowledge, the risk is that AI remains an exclusive tool wielded by a few, rather than a democratized force that benefits society as a whole.How can we approach the AI skills gap moving forwards?The AI skills gap is a multi-faceted challenge requiring a coordinated response from businesses, academia, and education systems. Businesses must take responsibility for upskilling their workforce, while academic institutions must adapt curriculums to align with industry needs. At the same time, AI literacy must become a mainstream priority, ensuring workers across all sectors are equipped for an AI-powered future. If these gaps are not addressed, the UK risks stagnating in its AI ambitions, with organizations struggling to implement AI effectively and workers left behind in the digital transformation.If businesses, educators, and policymakers act now, they have the opportunity to create a more inclusive, AI-ready workforce that drives sustainable innovation and economic growth. Only through a collaborative, proactive approach can the UK ensure that AI’s benefits are widely distributed rather than concentrated in a select few industries or regions.We've featured the best Python online course.This article was produced as part of TechRadarPro's Expert Insights channel where we feature the best and brightest minds in the technology industry today. The views expressed here are those of the author and are not necessarily those of TechRadarPro or Future plc. If you are interested in contributing find out more here: https://www.techradar.com/news/submit-your-story-to-techradar-pro

Netflix fans think they've deduced the release date of Knives Out 3Two new teasers for the mystery-crime thriller might have given the game awayKnives Out 3 is expected to feature as part of Netflix Tudum 2025Netflix sleuths appear to have unraveled the mystery of Knives Out 3's release date ahead of its likely reveal at Netflix Tudum 2025.This year's edition of Netflix's annual fan celebration, which will take place on Saturday, May 31 – in the US, anyway – is set to unveil plenty about numerous new Netflix movies and the forthcoming seasons of some of the best Netflix shows. From Stranger Things season 5 to Wednesday season 2, there'll be a truck-load of release date announcements, trailer reveals, and more to pore over very soon.Knives Out 3 – or, to give it its full title, Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – is also part of this year's line-up. Indeed, when Tudum 2025's date and slate were announced in April, the third Knives Out film was among the projects confirmed to appear.It won't be making up the numbers at Tudum 2025, either. After months of radio silence, the Knives Out X/Twitter account has not only *ahem* come back to life, but also heavily implied that a trailer and release date announcement are imminent."The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers, but the root of the righteous endures." pic.twitter.com/EYTtLlcYUXMay 28, 2025Two days ago (May 28), a spooky new teaser, which you can view above, was uploaded to said social media account.The footage, which simply shows a camera panning up to look at a church while its bells ring, doesn't give much away. However, the accompanying caption, which reads "The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers, but the root of the righteous endures", does.Before I explain the significance behind that, though, another sinister teaser, which you can watch below, was posted on the same account yesterday (May 29). This time, the camera slowly crawls through a graveyard and comes equipped with the caption "The devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short"."The devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short." pic.twitter.com/WyrQJJuCHyMay 29, 2025Alright, what has this duo got to do with Knives Out 3's possible release date?On the Knives Out Movie Subreddit, detectives have noticed that these captions are actually passages from the Bible. The first is taken from the Book of Proverbs, while the second is directly lifted from the Book of Revelation.That's not all. As Reddit user Avalon3071 points out, these sentences are taken from specific chapters and verses in their respective tomes. On both occasions, it's 12:12.You don't need to be a sleuth on the level of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, or Benoit Blanc to deduce Wake Up, Dead Man's likely launch date from that. But, if you're really struggling to work it out, let me spell it out for you: People think Knives Out 3 will make its debut on the world's best streaming service on December 12, 2025.Of course, all of this could be a mere coincidence but, if we've learned anything about teasers of this ilk, there's always a secret hidden within. Considering Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, aka the series' second installment, made its Netflix debut in December 2023, the streaming titan could look to replicate the success it had with that festive hit with the franchise's third entry.In short: don't be surprised if Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery's release date is confirmed to be December 12 at Tudum 2025.You might also likeFrom a Stranger Things season 5 release date to new movie trailer reveals, these are the 4 things I'm most excited to see at Netflix Tudum 2025These are the best Netflix movies to stream todayFind out more about Squid Game season 3 with our help

Bono has been a ubiquitous presence for most of my adult life. I was just coming up in the world when U2's break-out album, War, arrived, and by 1987's Joshua Tree, Bono and lead guitarist Edge felt inescapable. In other words, I saw U2 frontman Bono as less of an enigma and more of a contemporary.We're both old-ish men now, licking our psychic wounds and (in Bono's case) enigmatically revealing them to the world in, first, 2022's well-received memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, and now as an unusual spoken and musical journey, Bono: Stories of Surrender – the first immersive video feature-length film ever released on Vision Pro. It's a joyous, funny, sad, sometimes frustrating, and often intense guided tour back through Bono's life and career.Mostly, though, it's a story of Bono (Paul Hewson) and "Da" his deeply Irish dad, Bob Hewson.Apple provided me with a preview of the film, which I viewed almost entirely through Apple's $3,499 mixed-reality headset. There were, because of the way Apple insisted I access the video, some tech glitches (occasional freezing), but it was generally an immersive and often moving experience.Shot almost entirely in stark black and white, the film is both a one-man oratory and an occasional musical performance. Director Andrew Dominik uses the Vision Pro's expansive, almost 360-degree canvas to literally paint scenes around Bono as the singer tells particularly Irish tales about, for instance, his mother dying suddenly when he was just 14, and his father never speaking his wife's name again.(Image credit: Apple)The stage is spare, featuring little more than a few chairs, a table, and a fake pint of Guinness. But Dominik uses the Vision Pro's native 3D immersive capabilities to embellish the stage and imagery.Using 3D line drawing, Bono is, even as he performs or talks in front of a live audience, surrounded at points by lyrics, hand-drawn audience members, or boxes and papers that seem to reach to the sky above you.This is not a concert or a U2 performance. Early on, Bono admits that it's "almost transgressive,' to be on stage without his bandmates. Instead, Bono is backed by the Jacknife Lee ensemble, which features an electronic drum kit and a harpsichordist/backup singer. That doesn't sound like a lot, but it works.In fact, Bono, now 65, is in fine voice, which is clear, loud, and agile. This becomes less surprising when you learn that his father was a gifted tenor. Late in the film, Bono does some of his own operatic singing, clearly an homage to his late father.There are some musical performances and even a few moments in the Vision Pro experience where you feel as if you're nose-to-nose with the iconic lead singer (it's unnerving), but most of the singing is done in support of the stories, or rather, the stories explain the origins of songs like Pride, With or Without You, and Sunday, Bloody Sunday.Image 1 of 3(Image credit: Apple)Image 2 of 3(Image credit: Apple)Image 3 of 3(Image credit: Apple)There's a decent amount of humor, especially a story about Luciano Pavarotti, but more importantly, you do get the origin story of Bono's musical interests and the formation of the band, which coincided with meeting his wife of more than 40 years, Ali Hewson.The documentary does start off a little slowly and perhaps melodramatically, with Bono's 2016 heart surgery, and while I am deeply grateful Bono survived, I worried that the whole roughly 90-minute doc might be a bit of a slog. Fortunately, that harrowing tale was just the preamble, and soon, Bono was weaving an entertaining tale of hubris, struggles, and epiphanies.It was, though, frustrating to hear the story behind I Will Follow and not get a full performance of the song. I'll admit that I wanted more of U2's discography, though Bono's fresh interpretations, like the almost a cappella Sunday, Bloody Sunday, were stunning.In the end, this Bono: Stories of Surrender goes too fast, and it ends just as you feel you were finally getting to know the real Bono, a short singer with big tales and, I think, an even bigger heart. He's still not an enigma, but for the first time in 40 years, I feel as if I might just want to hang out with him.As for the Vision Pro, it did a brilliant job. 90 minutes is a long time to wear the mixed reality headset (it was down to 10% battery by the end), so make sure you have a comfortable fit. Mine is good (I use the dual-loop band), though I did take a few breaks.You can watch Bono: Stories of Surrender starting today on either the Vision Pro (for the special immersive experience) or on Apple TV+, where I suspect you'll enjoy it just as much.You might also likeVision Pro at one – I love Apple's revolutionary headset, so ...Bono says Apple wants to make the Vision Pro 'more ...Five ways Apple can save the Vision Pro in 2025