Month: August 2022

Banking giants such as JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America collectively face more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,000 crore) in regulatory fines for employees’ use of unapproved messaging tools, including email and apps like WhatsApp. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) began probing banks’ record-keeping practices relating to the use of personal devices
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Sony Interactive Entertainment has been sued by nine million claimants who accuse the company of “overpricing” PlayStation games, according to a report in Sky News. The users of the gaming console manufacturer have accused Sony of “ripping people off” with games and in-game purchases on its online store, the outlet further said. The collective action
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Details of an eight-year-old security vulnerability in the Linux kernel have emerged that the researchers say is “as nasty as Dirty Pipe.” Dubbed DirtyCred by a group of academics from Northwestern University, the security weakness exploits a previously unknown flaw (CVE-2022-2588) to escalate privileges to the maximum level. “DirtyCred is a kernel exploitation concept that
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From a “nuclear explosion” in the country to North Korea sending troops to Ayodhya, the 102 YouTube channels banned by the government were known to routinely spread disinformation about India to its lakhs of subscribers, and were “monetising fake news”, officials have said. The government started the crackdown against such YouTube channels for the first
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A team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine, has discovered a signalling molecule that stimulates hair growth in the human body. The molecule called SCUBE3 acts as an activating agent that contributes to hair growth. In a recent study, researchers examined the dermal papilla cells, the signal-making fibroblasts present at the bottom of each
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