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The US on Friday offered a reward of up to $15 million (roughly Rs. 115 crore) for information on the Russia-based Conti ransomware group, which has been blamed for cyber extortion attacks worldwide, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. The FBI estimates that more than 1,000 victims of the Conti group have paid a total

Nvidia Corporation has agreed to pay $5.5 million (roughly Rs. 42 crore) to settle civil charges that the technology firm did not properly disclose the impact of cryptomining on its gaming business, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Friday. In back-to-back quarters in fiscal 2018, Nvidia failed to disclose that cryptomining was

US-based technology industry body ITI, having global tech firms such as Google, Facebook, IBM and Cisco as its members, has sought a revision in the Indian government’s directive on reporting of cyber security breach incidents. ITI said that the provisions under the new mandate may adversely impact organisations and undermine cybersecurity in the country. ITI

Amazon Summer Sale 2022 is currently underway, and you can find great deals, offers, and discounts on a wide range of electronics. Amazon is currently offering up to 70 percent discount on laptops and tablets along with other great offers. Furthermore, ICICI, Kotak Mahindra, or RBL Bank users can save up to 10 percent on

House of the Dragon trailer is here. On Thursday, HBO unveiled the first teaser trailer for the Game of Thrones spin-off that takes place two centuries before the events of Game of Thrones. Kicking off with King Viserys Targaryen — the Seven Kingdoms’ fifth ruler — House of the Dragon will directly lead into the

Virtual private network (VPN) providers will be required to register and preserve user information for at least five years, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has said in an order that will come into force on June 28 — unless the government delays due to slow down in

Facebook owner Meta Platforms on Wednesday gave an early glimpse of its first physical store, which features a floor-to-ceiling screen for showing off games on its virtual reality headsets and rooms for testing video calling devices. The store, set to open on May 9, is located at the main campus for Meta’s Reality Labs unit,

Routers and connected devices including network cameras from companies including Netgear, Linksys, and Axis as well as the ones using Linux distributions such as Embedded Gentoo are found to be affected by a domain name system (DNS) poisoning flaw that exists in two popular libraries used for connected devices. Exact models impacted by the vulnerability

Twitter Inc estimated in a filing on Monday that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5 percent of its monetizable daily active users during the first quarter. The social media company had 229 million users who were served advertising in the first quarter. The disclosure came days after Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, who has inked a

Germany’s financial regulator BaFin warned Tuesday of the “very big” risk of cyberattacks targeting the financial sector, a threat it said had become “more likely” since Russia’s war on Ukraine. “The risk that companies in the financial sector will fall victim to cyberattacks or that internal IT security incidents will occur is very big and

Stranger Things 4 is the biggest name on TV in May 2022, with Netflix’s global supernatural horror hit returning after three whole years. The show and its world have gotten bigger in the meantime — episodes will be longer than ever, and the fourth season won’t be confined to Hawkins unlike past instalments. Stranger Things

Alphabet unit Google on Monday urged Europe’s second-highest court to dismiss a EUR 1.49 billion ($1.6 billion) (roughly Rs. 11,986 crore) fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators three years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising. The case is one of three that has resulted in a total of EUR 8.25 billion (roughly Rs.

In recent years, Amazon has spent billions of dollars on new warehouses that cut into profits, explaining to investors that it had no choice but to meet ever-rising consumer demand. It turns out, Amazon may have built too much, too soon, analysts say. The world’s largest online retailer on Thursday reported $2 billion (roughly Rs.

Google is expanding its warning banners for potentially malicious Google Drive files. While previously it displayed the banners when users were attempting to open such a file within a Google Drive account, or from within a Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawings file, Google has now brought the feature to the file-level – which means

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The world’s first permanent NFT art museum has opened in Seattle, aiming to “pull back the curtain” on blockchain-based digital art. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a type of digital asset that has exploded in popularity recently, with NFT artworks selling for millions of dollars. NFTs exist on a blockchain, a record of transactions kept on

Amazon is introducing a new feature that allows Alexa to notify users if their security camera sees a person or a package. For people using an Echo Smart Display or Fire TV, you can also automatically pull up your live video feed to see whether there’s a person or package at your video doorbell or

A Russian law firm on Friday said it had filed a lawsuit against US tech giant Apple seeking RUB 90 million (roughly Rs. 9.7 crore) in damages for consumers affected by Apple withdrawing its payment service from Russia. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Law firm Chernyshov, Lukoyanov & Partners said Apple