Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Protection / Privacy The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Thursday imposed fresh fines of €5.5 million against Meta’s WhatsApp for violating data protection laws when processing users’ personal information. At the heart of the ruling is an update to the messaging platform’s Terms of Service that was imposed in the
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Twitter will receive an update that will allow the app to remember the last feed a user was viewing, the company’s CEO Elon Musk revealed on Saturday. The microblogging service recently updated its Android and iOS apps with a “For You” feed with recommended tweets that is shown to users by default. Twitter will also allow
Samsung Galaxy A34 5G has reportedly surfaced on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website with the model number SM-A346M. It has appeared on the US regulator’s website shortly after its arrival on the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification site. The listing hints at an imminent global launch for the Samsung Galaxy A34 5G,
Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried (C) arrives to enter a plea before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Manhattan federal court, New York, January 3, 2023. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors seized nearly $700 million in cash and assets connected to Sam Bankman-Fried, primarily in the form of Robinhood
Infinix Note 12i (2022) India launch date has been set for January 25, according to the company. The launch was announced via a Flipkart microsite, which also reveals certain specifications of the phone. It is expected to be powered by a MediaTek Helio G85 SoC and sports a 6.7-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with a
Technology giant Apple has filed an appeal against an investigation by Britain’s competition watchdog into the dominance of its mobile browsers in the cloud gaming market. Last November, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Britain’s competition regulator, launched a full investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers on concerns about restrictions by iPhone-maker Apple and
Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Cyber Attack The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital onslaught against Ukraine, with recent attacks leveraging the popular messaging app Telegram to strike military and law enforcement sectors in the country. “The Gamaredon group’s network infrastructure relies on multi-stage Telegram accounts for victim
Social media giant Meta has been fined an additional EUR 5.5 million (roughly Rs. 47.8 crore) for violating EU data protection regulations with its instant messaging platform WhatsApp, Ireland’s regulator announced Thursday. The penalty follows a far larger EUR 390 million (roughly Rs. 3,429 crore) fine for Meta’s Instagram and Facebook platforms two weeks ago
Samsung Galaxy A14 5G and Samsung Galaxy A23 5G were unveiled in India earlier this week. The handsets went on sale in the country for the first time earlier today. The latest 5G offerings from Samsung are equipped with 6.6-inch displays, pack 5,000 mAh batteries, and feature a 50-megapixel primary camera. The Galaxy A14 5G
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon Prime Air drone Source: Amazon In 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to reveal a futuristic plan his company had been secretly pursuing to deliver packages by drone in 30 minutes. A pre-recorded demo showed an Amazon-branded “octocopter” carrying a
Online food delivery platform Swiggy on Friday laid off 380 employees as part of a “restructuring exercise” citing challenging macroeconomic conditions, with its CEO Sriharsha Majety saying that overhiring was a case of “poor judgement” where he should have done better. In an internal email, Majety, Co-Founder and CEO, also apologised to the affected employees
Chinese tech giant Tencent said Monday it had fired more than a hundred employees for violating company policies, with some referred to police and later found guilty of bribery and embezzlement. The Hong Kong-listed company is the world’s top video game maker and the owner of popular super-app WeChat but has struggled under a broad
Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Mobile Hacking Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the
The government on Friday made it mandatory for social media influencers to disclose their “material” interest in endorsing products and services and violations can attract strict legal action, including ban on endorsements. The regulations are part of continuing efforts to curb misleading advertisements as well protect the interests of consumers amid the expanding social influencer
Garmin Instinct Crossover series of rugged multisport smartwatches launched in India on Friday. These include the Garmin Instinct Crossover Solar, which is claimed to provide a battery life of up to 70 days, as it offers support for solar charging. The company has also launched a normal Garmin Instinct Crossover model, which is said to
WhatsApp has rolled out its latest fully stable update for iPhone users. The update has been made available to iOS users on the Apple App store and introduces the ability to search for messages by date. The new update also allows users to drag and drop images, videos, and documents from other apps in the
Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananFirewall / Network Security A suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN as a zero-day in attacks targeting a European government entity and a managed service provider (MSP) located in Africa. Telemetry evidence gathered by Google-owned Mandiant indicates that the exploitation occurred as early as October
Twitter has silently updated its developer terms to ban all third-party clients on the platform. The firm’s 5,000-word developer agreement was reportedly updated with a stipulation prohibiting “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.” Even before the terms were
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