Sunday, December 4, 2022

Cyber attacks triple in last three years, but security funds underutilised

The number of cyber attacks in the country has witnessed three-fold increase over as many years, however, the funds meant for cybersecurity have been underutilised with only Rs 98.31 crore used of the total Rs 213 crore sanctioned.

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Amazon to restart ads on Twitter: report

This Amazon development comes after companies have been pulling down their ads and marketing campaigns from Twitter since the Tesla CEO took over the social media company in October.

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Govt mulls exempting early stage startups from data protection bill provisions

"This may be for a limited time period in cases where they may be doing some kind of data modelling etc to develop their solution," the source, who did not wish to be named, said. The draft DPDP has proposed exemption only for government notified data fiduciaries and data processing entities when it comes to data collection, data sharing, giving information around data processing etc.

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Apple is fully advertising on Twitter again, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk made the comments during a Twitter Spaces conversation on Saturday, adding that Apple is the largest advertiser on the social media network.

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Despite funding winter, some Esop buybacks continue

As the funding freeze lingers on, most start-ups are getting increasingly parsimonious with money and conserving cash. Several others, meanwhile, are laying off staff.

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Saturday, December 3, 2022

Elon Musk releases 'Twitter Files' detailing censorship of information at Twitter

Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi, who began posting a series of tweets revealing the inner story about the decision behind the censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop story.

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French president Emmanuel Macron, Elon Musk discuss Twitter content rules

On Thursday, Macron - on a visit to the United States - said in an interview with television show Good Morning America that he believed there were "responsibilities and limits" to free speech.

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Twitter executive says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surges

Twitter is also more aggressively restricting abuse-prone hashtags and search results in areas including child exploitation, regardless of potential impacts on "benign uses" of those terms, said Twitter vice president of trust and safety product Ella Irwin.

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Flipkart Health+ plans to go pan-India: CEO

The Flipkart Health+ platform currently offers 83,000 prescription medicines and healthcare products, delivering to over 20,000 pincodes.

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Galaxy wins bid for collapsed crypto lender Celsius' GK8 unit

The purchase followed a sale process executed in connection with Celsius' Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is subject to court approvals and other closing conditions, the company said.

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US-based edtech startup BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, lays off half its staff

The online coding bootcamp is laying off 88 employees, according to a TechCrunch report.

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IndiaAI Mission's three indigenous AI models target offline mobile access, secure use in critical sectors

Three indigenous artificial intelligence (AI) models launched under the Centre's IndiaAI Mission are being developed for applications ra...