The US Federal Trade Commission official on Thursday withdrew the agency’s case before an in-house judge that sought to block Microsoft’s $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,66,200 crore) acquisition of game-maker Activision. The agency has been pursuing a two-pronged attack against the proposed transaction. One was in district court, which refused last week to slap a
Month: July 2023
Spider-Man 2 just got a story trailer during the San Diego Comic-Con 2023 panel, dropping big hints about the future of our heroes Peter Parker and Miles Morales, as they head into conflict with two primary threats — Kraven the Hunter and the Symbiote Venom. During the Summer Game Fest event, held last month, co-creator
Jul 21, 2023The Hacker NewsPassword Security / Cybersecurity Regardless of the country, local government is essential in most citizens’ lives. It provides many day-to-day services and handles various issues. Therefore, their effects can be far-reaching and deeply felt when security failures occur. In early 2023, Oakland, California, fell victim to a ransomware attack. Although city
Jul 21, 2023THNCyber Threat / Malware A new malware strain known as BundleBot has been stealthily operating under the radar by taking advantage of .NET single-file deployment techniques, enabling threat actors to capture sensitive information from compromised hosts. “BundleBot is abusing the dotnet bundle (single-file), self-contained format that results in very low or no static
Jul 21, 2023THNMalware / Software Security A new variant of AsyncRAT malware dubbed HotRat is being distributed via free, pirated versions of popular software and utilities such as video games, image and sound editing software, and Microsoft Office. “HotRat malware equips attackers with a wide array of capabilities, such as stealing login credentials, cryptocurrency wallets,
Jul 21, 2023THNEmail Security / Cyber Attack The recent attack against Microsoft’s email infrastructure by a Chinese nation-state actor referred to as Storm-0558 is said to have a broader scope than previously thought. According to cloud security company Wiz, the inactive Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key used to forge Azure Active Directory (Azure AD
Jul 22, 2023THNEncryption / Privacy Apple has warned that it would rather stop offering iMessage and FaceTime services in the U.K. than bowing down to government pressure in response to new proposals that seek to expand digital surveillance powers available to state intelligence agencies. The development, first reported by BBC News, makes the iPhone maker
Apple has strongly opposed a move by the British parliament to amend an act that would allow the government to order messaging services to weaken the encryption that protects their users. The Cupertino company said it will not compromise the end-to-end encryption that it offers to its iMessage users for one country. UK lawmakers are
Top AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer, the Biden administration said. The companies – which also include Anthropic, Inflection, Amazon.com, and OpenAI partner Microsoft – pledged to thoroughly test systems before
Twitter is expanding its suit of features, probably to onboard more people onto the platform. The social networking platform is seemingly testing a new feature that would let verified companies post all job openings on their profiles. While Twitter has not made an official announcement about working on this feature or planning to release it
Amazon is building a $120 million (nearly Rs. 980 crore) processing facility at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its thousands of planned Kuiper internet satellites, the company and state officials said Friday. The 1,00,000 square-foot building is part of the roughly $10 billion (nearly Rs. 82,000 crore) that Amazon has vowed to invest
Toyota Motor plans to use regenerative fuel cell technology to power a manned lunar rover, executives said on Friday, raising the prospect of eventually using the moon‘s water ice as an energy source in the future. Japan has stepped up its space ambitions under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. It is participating in NASA‘s Artemis programme
Boat Smart Ring wearable fitness tracker was unveiled in India today. As the name suggests, the smart wearable health-tracking device comes in the form of a ring that users can slip on and allow to track their biometrics. The company says that the device is made to be lightweight and suitable for wearing over a
Galaxy Unpacked 2023, Samsung’s showcase event for product launches, is set to take place July 26 in Seoul, Korea. This will be the company’s second Galaxy Unpacked event this year and Samsung is likely to take the wraps off its fifth-generation foldable phones — presumably Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 — at the
Google unveiled its much-awaited Pixel Watch in October last year during the ‘Made By Google’ event. The tech giant’s first in-house smartwatch was launched in Chalk, Charcoal, Hazel, and Obsidian band options. Now, the wearable appears to be getting a new band option shortly. Google’s latest Fixed on Pixel ad featuring soccer star Megan Rapinoe
iQoo Neo 7 Pro 5G was launched in India earlier this month and the Chinese smartphone maker’s latest handset is equipped with a few flagship-grade specifications. However, it doesn’t cost a fortune, and the phone features one of the most powerful smartphone chipsets you can buy today, sports a flat AMOLED display with a 120Hz
Smartphone maker Xiaomi is betting big on the Rs. 10,000-Rs. 15,000 device segment to regain its lost market share, a senior official of the company said on Friday. Xiaomi India President, Muralikrishnan B said that the company has come up with a reset strategy and will focus to be “India’s most loved and trusted smartphones”
Chinese smartphone makers, including Oppo Mobile, Vivo India and Xiaomi Technology, have been found evading taxes worth Rs. 9,000 crore in India, Parliament was informed on Friday. Data shared by the Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in Rajya Sabha showed tax evasion of around Rs. 9,000 crore, comprising customs duty and
Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event is set to take place on July 26 and its fifth iteration of foldable phones — the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and the Galaxy Z Flip 5 — will be the show’s major highlights. Ahead of the event, Samsung has released a teaser video to give us a glimpse of the
Realme C51 is inching towards its launch in India as its renders and key specifications have surfaced on the Web. The leaked renders suggest carbon black and mint green shades for the upcoming Realme C-series handset. It is shown to have a waterdrop-style notch display at the front to house the selfie shooter. The Realme
In this article GM TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chevrolet Bolt at EPA’s National Fuel and Emissions Lab How far an electric vehicle can drive on a single charge is one of the most closely watched numbers in the automotive world. The official government process used to test and certify those ranges has
David and Annie Lu, siblings and co-founders of H20k Innovations Photo courtesy David and Annie Lu Annie Lu was a student at Harvard when Covid-19 brought the world to a screeching halt, including her own college experience. “I remember in March of 2020 basically being kicked off campus and everything going virtual,” Lu, 22, told
In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Brian Moller is a self-described “master threader.” Since Meta debuted Instagram Threads a day after the July 4 holiday, the radio personality and comedian, whose stage name is B Mo the Prince, has been cracking jokes and playfully
Government’s initiative Open Network for Digital Commerce has collaborated with a subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange to launch an academy to provide information to sellers and network participants about simple ways to conduct e-commerce business. In the current phase, the ONDC Academy will provide learning content in text and video formats to sellers about
Filmmakers have put monsters on screen for more than a century. In 2023, the real bogeyman looks just like us. Since June, Hollywood studios and performers have debated the use of artificial intelligence in film and television. Failure to agree on terms around AI was one reason why the SAG-AFTRA union representing actors and media
ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, and people are using it to write articles and essays, generate marketing copy and computer code, or simply as a learning or research tool. However, most people don’t understand how it works or what it can do, so they are either not happy with its results or not using it
Xiaomi Smart TV A series was launched in India on July 21. The new smart TV lineup comes in three screen sizes — 32 inches, 40 inches, and 43 inches — and runs on Google TV. All TVs in the series include Xiaomi’s proprietary Vivid Picture Engine and pack 20W speakers along with Dolby Audio
Tiger Global, Peak XV and Steadview Capital are among 30 foreign and domestic investors asking Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review a 28 percent gaming tax, saying the levy would adversely impact $4 billion (roughly Rs. 32,811 crore) in prospective investments, a letter showed. India last week announced the tax on the funds that
Acer Nitro 16 was launched in India on Friday, quipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS octa-core processor in two GPU variants — GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 4050. The models have 16-inch LED-backlit TFT LCD screens and customisable 4-Zone RGB backlight keyboards. Notably, the company released the Acer Swift Edge 16, the Acer Predator Triton 16 the
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is back in the hands of Britain’s antitrust regulator after an appeals court granted an adjournment, and the grounds for why the UK should reconsider its block on the US software giant’s takeover were published. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) set out on Friday Microsoft’s arguments for the reconsideration, as
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