Knowledge@Computing

Picture the scene: you’re at the supermarket and two cartons of milk are on the shelf. One expires in three days, the other in five. You take the fresher one.

In February 2024, an employee at engineering firm Arup joined a video call with people who looked, sounded and moved exactly like the company’s CFO and several colleagues. All of them were deepfakes. Over the course of the call, the employee authorised 15 wire transfers totalling US$25.6 million to accounts controlled by scammers, a case later confirmed by Hong Kong Police. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded more than US$893 million in adjusted losses from AI-related fraud complaints in 2025, according to a report the agency published in April 2026.

In February 2024, an employee at engineering firm Arup joined a video call with people who looked, sounded and moved exactly like the company’s CFO and several colleagues. All of them were deepfakes. Over the course of the call, the employee authorised 15 wire transfers totalling US$25.6 million to accounts controlled by scammers, a case later confirmed by Hong Kong Police. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded more than US$893 million in adjusted losses from AI-related fraud complaints in 2025, according to a report the agency published in April 2026.

Every lock can be picked. That is roughly the logic of cybersecurity: to protect a system, you first have to understand how someone might break into it. The tools that test a network's weak spots are the same tools a criminal would use to exploit them. Encryption that keeps your bank details private is the same encryption that hides a ransomware gang's tracks.

A best paper-winning model from NUS Computing helps AI learn from both written notation and recorded audio within a single framework, expanding how machines can understand music

A hiring manager conducting a 15-minute interview is doing several things simultaneously: listening, evaluating, planning the next question, and writing it all down before it disappears. In a formative study of eight HR professionals, researchers from NUS Computing, together with collaborators from recruitment software firm Avature, found that participants put it plainly: "I need to try to remember everything, and also assess the candidate at the same time."