emily: interesting, jay bhatt and ben legg, thank you those for joining me.e will continue to watch this. it's rapidly evolving. jay: thank you. emily: we are focused on the irs. remember last month the agents the -- the agency announced that identity thieves access the records of more than 100,000 people. we have learned 13,000 fake tax returns have been filed, adding up to an estimated loss of $39 million for the government. this came from testimony from the irs director to the senate finance committee today. he warned the agency's push to go into online services makes it more likely that they will be hit by hackers and fraudsters again. and apparently this is a drop in the bucket. they lost more than 100 million dollars to refund fraud in 2014. coming up -- hp's dream machine. we take a look at its supercomputer as the company prepares for an historic split. plus, details of facebook's latest ai investment, next. ♪ emily: it is time now for the daily byte one number that tells a whole lot. and it is six. that's the number of researchers facebook hired for

emily: blackboard ceo, and ben legg, thank you so much for joining us.usly a space we will continue to watch that is rapidly evolving. in today's hack of the day, we are focused on the irs. remember the last month, the agency said that identity thieves accessed tax returns of millions of people? -- of more than 100,000 people? taxpayers? well, today we learned about 13,000 fake returns have been used with that information adding up to an estimated loss of $39 million for the government. it came from a testimony by the irs inspector general to the senate finance committee today. he warned that the agency's push to expand into online services makes it more likely that the irs will be hit by hackers and other fraudsters again. and apparently, this was just a drop in the bucket. george says the irs lost more than $5 billion to refund costs in 2013. -- refund fraud in 2013. coming up, hp dream machine. we take a look at hp supercomputer as the company compares for its historic split. plus, facebook wants its programs to think like a human brain. details of it