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The U.S. offers the highest pay to software developers, online scams are still on the rise, and Ukraine’s ministry of defence employs Clearview AI’s facial recognition tech.
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US is best place to be a software engineer, salary survey finds from technology
The U.S. has always stood out with a bustling tech sector and a latest survey reinforced that image. The report, culled from a community of two million developers, revealed an average software engineer earns $95,000 in the U.S. More than 40 per cent of developers in the U.S. earn more than $100,000 a year and 5 per cent earns more than $200,000. That’s way above what devs get paid in Canada, which sits at an average of $71,000. Surprisingly, Germany, Spain and France all had lower income. Note that while developers do earn more in the U.S., the survey doesn’t factor in the massive difference between the cost of living.
The FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report revealed that online crimes stole $6.9 billion from people in 2021, a $2 billion increase from 2020. More than 800,000 online crime reports were filed in the year, a 7 per cent increase from 2020 but an 81 per cent increase from 2019. The report says phishing scams, non-payment and personal data breaches were the most common forms of attack. The FBI also warned that online scams may become even…
