Month: December 2022

The European Commission on Monday said it has warned Facebook parent company Meta that it is breaching EU antitrust laws by distorting competition in markets for online classified advertising and abusing its dominant position. The Commission said in a preliminary view that it would further investigate and that it could impose a fine of up
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Apple’s walled garden around its technology is as synonymous with the iPhone maker as the iPhone itself. It is how Apple lures consumers into buying expensive earphones, watches and speakers that work seamlessly with that rectangular slab in their pockets, and ultimately what locks people in to Apple products. That has been great for Apple’s
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The exercise to bring in Telecom Bill and Digital Data Protection Bill is in a “very advanced stage” and is likely to be tabled in Parliament during the next Monsoon Session, said the Union Minister of Communications and Electronics, and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw. “Prime Minister has given a very clear vision that there should
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K.G.F: Chapter 2 — Prashanth Neel’s sequel to the period thriller — was among the highest-selling and most-watched movies in 2022. As per BookMyShow’s “Best of 2022” report, on release day — April 14 — the movie managed to sell 2.14 million tickets, with further collections coming in the following weekends. The Kannada-language film sold
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Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananBackup & Recovery / Zero-Day The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two vulnerabilities impacting Veeam Backup & Replication software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The now-patched critical flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-26500 and CVE-2022-26501, are both rated 9.8 on
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Motorola ThinkPhone, the handset that was previously tipped to launch as the Moto Edge 40 or Lenovo ThinkPhone, has been leaked online. The images show off the design, build, and key specifications of the purported smartphone from Motorola. However, the latest leak seems to suggest the upcoming smartphone will be called ’ThinkPhone by Motorola’. The images
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Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Data Security The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, announced Thursday that it’s formally retiring the SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm. SHA-1, short for Secure Hash Algorithm 1, is a 27-year-old hash function used in cryptography and has since been deemed broken owing
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