Month: January 2021

Australia’s competition regulator has warned that planned laws to make the country the first in the world to force Google and Facebook to pay for news content were likely just the start of more regulation for digital platforms. The Australian government announced legislation last month after an investigation it said showed the tech giants held
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As the investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack continues, cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a third malware strain that was deployed into the build environment to inject the backdoor into the company’s Orion network monitoring platform. Called “Sunspot,” the backdoor adds to a growing list of previously disclosed malicious software such as Sunburst and Teardrop. “This
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Every January, we make new years’ resolutions every year and try to stick to them till the next year. Given how 2020 was, I’m sure a lot of us are taking our health more seriously and wish to be a bit more active in 2021, so it seems to be just the right time for
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Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook on Monday announced that it will pause its contributions to political action committees in the wake of the invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday by insurgents incited by President Donald
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A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old Russian to 12 years in prison for perpetrating an international hacking campaign that resulted in the heist of a trove of personal information from several financial institutions, brokerage firms, financial news publishers, and other American companies. Andrei Tyurin was charged with computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud,
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Hike is shutting down its Sticker Chat app, founder and CEO Kavin Bharti Mittal confirmed. The company is ‘sunsetting’ Hike Sticker Chat in January 2021 itself. Mittal says that even though the app is shutting down, HikeMoji will still be available in its other services. The company had earlier stated that the Hike Sticker Chat
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Cybersecurity researchers, for the first time, may have found a potential connection between the backdoor used in the SolarWinds hack to a previously known malware strain. In new research published by Kaspersky researchers today, the cybersecurity firm said it discovered several features that overlap with another backdoor known as Kazuar, a .NET-based malware first documented
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Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data, for enterprise technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher in AI and Data Learn More Verily, Alphabet’s research subsidiary focused on life sciences, has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to
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Lenovo ThinkReality A3 AR smart glasses were unveiled at CES 2021. The smart glasses feature stereoscopic 1080p displays that can present the user with up to five virtual displays. Lenovo says that ThinkReality A3 can be used for 3D visualisation, customised virtual monitors, Augmented Reality (AR) assisted workflows, and immersive training. The ThinkReality A3 smart
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Cryptocurrencies plunged on Monday, with bitcoin dropping more than 12 percent to a one-week low as rising US bond yields lifted the dollar broadly and hurt other safe assets that pay no income. Bitcoin fell as far as $33,447 (roughly Rs. 24.5 lakhs), its lowest since January 6. Ethereum which often moves in tandem with
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WhatsApp appears to soon allow users to test its multi-device support. A recent WhatsApp beta for Android has suggested that the messaging app could bring a WhatsApp Web Beta release to let users try anticipated multi-device support that is rumoured to enable WhatsApp access simultaneously on multiple devices. Some references suggesting support for multi-device logins
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A visual representation of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin on November 20, 2018 in London, England. Jordan Mansfield | Getty Images News | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Bitcoin and other digital coins tanked on Monday wiping off some $170 billion from the entire cryptocurrency market. The market capitalization or value of the cryptocurrency market was $959.53
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Facebook has banned President Donald Trump from the platform “indefinitely” due to his efforts to incite violence at the US Capitol, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday. Zuckerberg said a one-day ban imposed on Trump’s accounts at Facebook and Instagram was extended because of Trump’s “use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a
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