TWITTER HACKED, 200 MILLION EMAIL ADDRESSES LEAKED: RESEARCHER

Fri 06 January 2023: Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher has said. The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,” Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn […]

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US DEMANDED SUSPENSION OF 250,000 TWITTER ACCOUNTS, SAYS MUSK

Wed 04 January 2023: Twitter chief Elon Musk on Tuesday disclosed that US Government demanded the suspension of 250k Twitter accounts, including those belonging to journalists and Canadian officials, reported Fox News. He made the revelation while sharing the latest round of “Twitter Files,” which were made public by the journalist Matt Taibbi. “US govt […]

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MICROSOFT TO ROLL OUT AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-POWERED VERSION OF BING

Wed 04 January 2023: Microsoft is planning to launch an AI-powered version of its search engine Bing, said a report. The tech giant is going to use ChatGPT, the OpenAI-launched chatbot, The Information reported on Tuesday. Microsoft can reportedly launch the latest feature before the end of March.  Last year, Microsoft said that it was […]

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WHATSAPP ENDS SUPPORT FOR MANY SMARTPHONES: HERE’S A LIST

Mon 02 January 2023: Meta-owned WhatsApp has ended support for many smartphones that include two iPhone models. The rest of them are android phones. In order to enhance user experience, WhatsApp regularly sends updates and rolls out new features. Apart from sending new updates for newer Operating Systems (OS), WhatsApp also withdraws support for the […]

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GOOGLE TESTING ‘DIGITAL DRIVER’S LICENSE’ IN ITS ANDROID WALLET APP

Sat 31 December 2022: Google has been reportedly beta testing support for the “Digital Driver’s License” in the Wallet app for Android handsets. According to Google’s updated support page, “users running Android 8.0 (or later) who are in the Google Play Services beta program (specifically, version 48.22) are eligible,” reports The Verge. It further added, […]

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GOOGLE WILL TRANSLATE DOCTOR’S HANDWRITTEN PRESCRIPTIONS SOON

Fri 30 December 2022: Google has announced an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) model which will enable the user to identify and highlight medicines written in the prescriptions by doctors in difficult-to-read handwriting. Reports state that this will act as an assistive technology for digitising handwritten medical documents by augmenting the humans in […]

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