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Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners. The website was designed to only show general data about the number and location of concealed carry gun permits, broken down by year and county.

A Dutch university that fell victim to a massive ransomware attack has partly received back its stolen money… which in the meantime more than doubled in value, a news report said on Saturday. The southern Maastricht University in 2019 was hit by a large cyberattack in which criminals used ransomware, a type of malicious software

The Delhi government plans to engage with various e-commerce firms and food delivery platforms, including Zomato, Swiggy, Amazon and Flipkart, for effective implementation of the ban on single-use plastic (SUP) items in the capital, officials said on Saturday. These firms have a huge business in Delhi and it has only increased after the Covid pandemic, they

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 34 titles that will be released on its platform in July 2022. In big names, we have Karan Johar returning with the seventh season of his long-running talk show Koffee with Karan, now dubbed as “Hotstar Specials”. Koffee with Karan season 7 starts July 7 on Disney+ Hotstar.

The government has warned ed-tech companies against unfair trade practices in India. In a meeting with industry body India Edtech Consortium (IEC), Consumer Affairs Secretary said that stringent guidelines would need to be worked out for ensuring transparency if self regulation does not curb the unfair trade practices in the sector. The meeting was attended

Instagram is reportedly testing a way to turn video posts into Reels. The Meta-owned social media platform is said to have mentioned has reportedly said that the change is currently being tested with a select number of users around the world and it is part of Instagram’s plan to simplify the videos on the application.

Major is set to release July 3 — in Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam — on Netflix, exactly a month after it debuted in cinemas worldwide on June 3. On Thursday, the streaming platform made this announcement with a tweet that read: “The untold story of a son. The untold story of a father. The untold

Alphabet unit Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users’ personal data harvested via their Google accounts, European consumer organisation BEUC said on Thursday. In addition to the French consumer group, others in Greece, the Czech Republic, Norway and Slovenia

Ms. Marvel episode 4 — out now on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — transported the newest Marvel Cinematic Universe series to Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, fulfilling Nani’s (Samina Ahmed) wish that had been set up at the end of the previous episode. In doing so, it was able to touch upon the ancestors of Kamala

Spotify has announced a new in-app feature called the Supergrouper on June 28. The new feature will enable users to select a group of five artists that might not usually come together on-stage or in the recording studio. The music streaming platform will then create a playlist for the listeners based on your selections. Users

Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi trailer is out. On Tuesday, Netflix shared a nearly one-and-a half minute long trailer for its true-crime docu-series to give us an idea of what to expect from the hard-hitting original. The Indian Predator trailer begins with a chilling voiceover from an unidentified individual who claims to have kept

Reels APIs will be made available to a number of endpoints on the Instagram Platform for developers, according to a statement from Meta. The firm claims that after learning that Reels is a top priority from its developer community, it is providing the new Reels APIs. Reels’ assistance from Meta is now also available for

Shares of Zomato fell by over 6 percent on Monday after announcement that the online food delivery platform will acquire Blink Commerce (formerly known as Grofers) for Rs. 4,447.48 crore. The stock declined 6.40 percent to settle at Rs. 65.85 on the BSE. During the day, it fell 7.53 percent to Rs. 65.05. At the

Modern Love Hyderabad first trailer is here. On Friday, streaming platform Amazon Prime Video released a one-minute 40-second teaser trailer for the Telugu-language adaptation of the American romantic anthology series Modern Love to give fans an idea of what is in store for them. The first Modern Love Hyderabad trailer begins with a voiceover about

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday extended the card-on-file (CoF) tokenisation deadline by three months to September 30, in view of various representations received from industry bodies. Card-on-file, or CoF, refers to card information stored by payment gateway and merchants to process future transactions. Tokenisation is the process of replacing actual card details

The technology industry in the United States is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement, in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to overturn the Roe vs Wade precedent that for decades guaranteed a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. As state laws

Microsoft has announced to end the support for Windows 8.1 operating software. The tech giant has said that the technical support and security updates for the old version of Windows operating system will no longer be provided after January 10, 2023. Microsoft is also recommending users to switch to a new PC that can run

In a boost for small entrepreneurs and start-ups, the railways has brought its commercial earning and non-fare revenue contracts online, with no financial turnover requirement for annual contracts of up to Rs. 40 lakh. In line with the prevailing e-auction of scrap sale, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw launched e-auction for commercial earning and non-fare revenue