Thu 16 October 2023: A groundbreaking technological advancement is being reported out of Beijing where Chinese entities have launched what they are calling the world’s most advanced and fastest internet network, boasting a data transmission rate of 1.2 terabits or 1,200 gigabits per second. China Mobile, Huawei Technologies, and Cernet Corporation unveiled the network which […]
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Wed 15 October 2023: Visitors to a Ukrainian news website on the evening of February 18 2022, were greeted by a familiar sight, a video of their president giving a speech. While the resemblance was there, the face seemed slightly out of sync with the head of the Ukrainian president. In the video, Volodymyr Zelensky announced […]
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Wed 15 October 2023: A Moscow court on Tuesday fined U.S. tech giant Google 15 million Russian rubles ($165,000) for violating laws on data localization. Under the law on localization, IT companies are required to store Russian users’ data on servers inside Russia. Google was also fined $3 million rubles in August 2021 under the […]
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Tue 14 October 2023: The US Justice Department’s antitrust trial has revealed that Alphabet’s Google pays Apple about 36 per cent of the revenue generated from search advertising through the Safari browser. According to a Bloomberg report, the disclosure by Alphabet’s main economics expert Kevin Murphy has brought attention to the closely guarded details […]
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Tue 14 October 2023: Nepal’s government has decided to impose a ban on Chinese video-sharing app TikTok in the country, citing its negative effects on social harmony. The decision taken in a Monday Cabinet meeting is expected to be enforced following the completion of technical preparations, daily Kathmandu Post reported. Nepal’s Minister for Communications and […]
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Mon 13 October 2023: Keeping up with the latest digital cons is exhausting. Fraudsters always seem to be one step ahead. But our study found there is one simple thing you can do to drastically reduce your chances of losing money to web scams: slow down. In fact, among the various techniques used by scammers, creating a […]
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Sun 12 October 2023: After coming under fire for its links to China, TikTok is again under the spotlight in the United States amid claims that the popular video app is pushing young people to support Palestinians and Hamas. In recent weeks, powerful politicians, including senators Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio and House Representative Mike […]
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Sat 11 October 2023: The significant risks that AI poses to global security are becoming clearer. That’s partly why UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is hosting other world leaders at the AI Safety summit on November 1-2 at the famous second world war code-breaking site Bletchley Park. Yet while the technology of AI is developing at an […]
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Big brother is watching… your phone. Illustration: The Wire Fri 10 October 2023: New Delhi: Late on Monday night, some two dozen individuals in India received alerts from Apple warning them that they are “being targeted by state-sponsored attackers who are trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated” with their Apple ID. Apple gave no specific details […]
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Fri 10 October 2023: Think about your favorite devices – your smartphone, laptop, tablet, computer or console – the things you use to play cool games, watch hilarious videos and connect and chat with friends. Many young people spend a lot of free time looking at them. Turns out that teens spend an average of 8½ […]
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