Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest said on Thursday he is launching criminal proceedings against Meta’s Facebook in an Australian court, alleging that it breached anti-money laundering laws and its platform is used to scam Australians. Forrest, Australia’s richest man and chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, said he was taking the action to stop people losing
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Motorola has been slowly adding budget 5G smartphones to its G series over the past year. We recently tested the Moto G51 and were happy with its performance. Motorola has now launched the Moto G71 5G, which is the first smartphone to sport the new Snapdragon 695 SoC in India, and also boasts of a
An ongoing search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning attack campaign has been observed abusing trust in legitimate software utilities to trick users into downloading BATLOADER malware on compromised machines. “The threat actor used ‘free productivity apps installation’ or ‘free software development tools installation’ themes as SEO keywords to lure victims to a compromised website and to
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Days after walking back a pledge to kill off legacy, free G Suite accounts come May 2022, Google has announced Google Workspace Essentials Starter, a new offering that will allow users to sign up for no-cost access to Google Docs, Sheets,
A US intelligence agency said Wednesday that its newest spy satellite successfully launched into orbit atop a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The SpaceX rocket took off at 12:27 pm local time (01:57am IST on February 3) from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which is in charge of
Twitter is reportedly working on a “Twitter Articles” feature that could allow users to post tweets with longer text. According to details shared by a reverse engineering expert on Twitter, the company may allow users to write posts beyond the existing 280-character limit on the platform. Currently, users can tweet longer text pieces using threads,
South Korea’s telecommunications regulator wants better compliance plans from Apple and Alphabet’s Google before finalising rules for a law banning app store operators from forcing software developers to use their payments systems, officials said on Thursday. South Korea passed the law, an amendment to the Telecommunication Business Act, last year. The rules, due to be
Cisco has patched multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting its RV Series routers that could be weaponized to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code on affected systems, while also warning of the existence of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting some of these bugs. Three of the 15 flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-20699, CVE-2022-20700, and CVE-2022-20707, carry the
In this article FB Building the metaverse isn’t cheap. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, revealed the financials of its Reality Labs division for the first time in its Q4 2021 earnings report on Wednesday. That’s the segment of the company tasked with building CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse. It also includes revenue from hardware,
Airtel Xstream Premium pack, that brings access to content from over-the-top (OTT) platforms including Eros Now, SonyLIV, and Epic On, among others, is now available at Rs. 149 per month or Rs. 1,499 on an annual basis. The bundle was previously offered at a monthly price of Rs. 49 or a yearly price of Rs.
Sony Bravia A75K Smart TV with 4K OLED display has been unveiled. The smart TV comes with multiple video-related technologies and features such as Cognitive Processor XR, XR OLED Contrast Pro, XR Triluminos Pro, Auto Low Latency Mode, Acoustic Surface Audio, support for virtual assistants, and a smart remote. The Sony Bravia A75K will be
Japan’s Nintendo sold 18.95 million Switch units in the nine months to the end of December, the company said on Thursday, taking total sales past 100 million units and exceeding lifetime sales of the Wii console. Although the figure undershot the 24.1 million units sold in the corresponding period a year earlier, the milestone highlights
This article was contributed by Tianhui Michael Li, founder of The Data Incubator, and Maxime Agostini, cofounder and CEO of Sarus. Why differential privacy overcomes many of the fatal flaws of de-identification and data masking If data is the new oil, then privacy is the new environmentalism. With the growing use of data comes the need
International Space Station (ISS) is entering its final decade of operational life and NASA is planning to open it for commercial activities. The space agency has detailed the transition plan in a new report. It outlines the steps being taken by NASA to develop “both the supply and demand side” of the low-Earth-orbit commercial economy.
WhatsApp Desktop has reportedly added a feature to let users ask the Meta-owned instant messaging app to generate a report of their account information and settings. Called Request Account Info, the dedicated option has so far been available to mobile users on both Android and iOS. It allows users to submit a request to WhatsApp
Noise ColorFit Icon Buzz has been launched in India as the latest model in the brand’s ColorFit range of smartwatches. The new smartwatch comes with Bluetooth calling support that allows users to make and attend voice calls directly from their wrist, without taking out the connected phone from their pocket. The Noise ColorFit Icon Buzz
Vivo Y7x 4G, tipped to be a mid-range phone that could rival the upcoming Redmi Note 11 5G, has leaked. Vivo recently launched a handful of smartphones as part of its Y-series. This rumoured handset is tipped to be powered by a MediaTek Helio G96 SoC under the hood. Vivo Y7x 4G is said to
As many as 23 new high severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in different implementations of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware used by numerous vendors, including Bull Atos, Fujitsu, HP, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, among others. The vulnerabilities reside in Insyde Software’s InsydeH2O UEFI firmware, according to enterprise firmware security company Binarly, with a majority