Month: February 2021

India’s technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday warned US social media firms to abide by the country’s laws, a day after a face-off between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration and Twitter over content regulation. Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called out Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp by name and said
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Two new Android surveillanceware families have been found to target military, nuclear, and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaign. Dubbed Hornbill and Sunbird, the malware impersonates legitimate or seemingly innocuous services to cover its tracks, only to stealthily collect SMS, encrypted messaging app content, and geolocation, among
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said social-media services like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube need clearer laws and rules to govern whether controversial accounts, like former US President Donald Trump’s, have a place on their services, rather than being asked to make free-speech decisions themselves. “Unilateral action by individual companies in democracies like ours is
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Global notebook shipments grew 54 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to a market research firm report. The growth came on the back of increased adoption of remote working and e-learning across major markets worldwide fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report. It said that gaming and remote work drove
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Singapore Airline’s Salvatore Ferragamo-branded amenity bag SFO Museum Multiple third-party sellers allegedly advertised and facilitated the sale of counterfeit Salvatore Ferragamo goods on Amazon, according to two joint lawsuits Amazon and the Italian luxury label filed Thursday.  The lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington accuse four sellers and three
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New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments. The breach, which occurred last Friday, involved an unsuccessful attempt on the part of an adversary to increase sodium hydroxide dosage in the water supply
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Feb.08 — Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. surged after announcing the company will unite with International Business Machines Corp. in a partnership that will dramatically expand the reach of Palantir’s sales force while making IBM’s own artificial-intelligence software easier for non-technical customers to use. Bloomberg’s Lizette Chapman has more on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”
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The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars is set to reach the red planet and enter its orbit on Tuesday following a seven-month, 494 million km journey, allowing it to start sending data about the Martian atmosphere and climate. This would make the UAE the fifth space agency to reach the planet. The Mars
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LinkedIn has announced a handful of new features for Sales Navigator, its platform that gives sales teams deeper insights into prospects. LinkedIn launched Sales Navigator back in 2014, two years before Microsoft acquired the professional social network for $26 billion, and in the intervening years it has added a number of new features to the
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