Category: Tech

TÜRKIYE’S DOMESTICALLY-PRODUCED FIGHTER JET KAAN GETTING READY FOR FIRST FLIGHT

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Wed 14 June 2023: The Turkish-made combat aircraft KAAN, developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ), is nearing its first flight, thanks to the intensive work of Turkish engineers and pilots in the engineering development simulator. The simulator, built with domestic facilities, allows for the development of KAAN according to the project schedule and cost-effectively. Gökhan Bayramoğlu, the test […]

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FRENCH SENATE APPROVES TESTING OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC SPHERE

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Wed 14 June 2023: French Senate has adopted a draft law about testing public facial recognition technologies, local media reported. The draft law was adopted on Monday with 226 votes in favor, while 117 left-wing senators rejected it, the daily Le Monde said. It aims to create a legal framework to test, for three years, […]

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OVER 60K ANDROID APPS FOUND SECRETLY INFECTED WITH ADWARE FOR LAST 6 MONTHS

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Wed 14 June 2023: Over 60,000 Android apps have silently and covertly loaded adware on mobile devices over the past six months while remaining unnoticed. The antivirus company Bitdefender claims to have found 60,000 distinct samples (unique apps) harboring the adware to yet and estimates there are many more out there in the wild, according […]

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TWITTER’S CO-FOUNDER SAYS INDIA THREATENED SOCIAL NETWORK WITH SHUTDOWN

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Tue 13 June 2023: India, Nigeria and Turkey had threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts, co-founder Jack Dorsey has alleged. Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO in 2021, said on Monday that India threatened the company with a shutdown and raids on employees if it did not comply […]

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UN CHIEF URGES SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRITY TO CURB MISINFORMATION

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Tue 13 June 2023: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday called on member states to address the “grave global harm” caused by the proliferation of hate and lies online, as he launched a key report designed to shore up information integrity on digital platforms. Alarm over the potential threat posed by the rapid development of generative […]

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SAUDI ARABIA TO ESTABLISH INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY FORUM

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Mon 12 June 2023: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued on Wednesday a royal decree to establish a new institute for the Global Cybersecurity Forum (GCF) in Riyadh, state news agency SPA reported. The institute aims to harness the potential of cyberspace and support efforts to boost cyber safety on a global scale. “The […]

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NASA AIMS TO AVERT AN ‘INTERNET APOCALYPSE’ THAT COULD HALT INTERNET ACCESS FOR MONTHS

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  An artist’s concept of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe observing the Sun. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Mon 12 June 2023: NASA has launched a satellite as part of a quest to avert a “internet apocalypse” that could leave people without internet connection for months. According to Mirror, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) of the […]

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META IN TALKS WITH OPRAH WINFREY AND DALAI LAMA TO EXPLORE ITS TWITTER-LIKE APP

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Sat 10 June 2023: The future micro-blogging network “sanely run” from Meta will use Instagram’s account system to automatically populate a user’s information. According to The Verge, Meta is in talks with prominent figures including Oprah Winfrey, the Dalai Lama, and DJ Slime about becoming early users of their Twitter alternative. The ‘ActivityPub’ decentralized social […]

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BAN ON HUAWEI WILL BE ‘BRAZEN’ VIOLATION OF MARKET PRINCIPLES, CHINA SAYS

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Fri 09 June 2023: China said on Wednesday that the EU’s decision to impose a ban on Chinese technology giant Huawei would be a “brazen” violation of the values of free trade, a market economy, and competitiveness that the “EU claims to champion.” Huawei has never compromised the security of any European nation since it […]

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