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IANS- Radicalization in the digital era is not new, but now one of Twitter’s key executives has said that there’s “no doubt” that social media content, in some cases, contributes to radicalization. Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Public Policy & Trust and Safety Lead at Twitter, said the organization has policies in place to combat such […]
IANS- A ransomware attack has crippled the US city of Baltimore that has brought all of its email and online payment gateways to a standstill. The hackers are demanding $76,280 in exchange for freeing all the city’s systems. The tool that has paralyzed the city is a National Security Agency creation called “EternalBlue”, which has […]
IANS- The Indian government requested Facebook to provide data for 20,805 users (including 861 emergency requests) — second only to the US government — in the July-December 2018 period and the social networking giant provided some data in 53 percent of the cases. During the second half of 2018, the volume of content restrictions […]
IANS- Facebook has removed more than three billion fake accounts in the October 2018-March 2019 period, saying that about 5 percent of its monthly active users were fake. Facebook disabled 1.2 billion accounts in Q4 2018 and 2.19 billion in Q1 2019. “For fake accounts, the number of accounts we took action on increased due […]
IANS- A former Google employee has revealed how a group of engineers plotted to kill Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 on its YouTube platform nearly 10 years ago. According to a report in The Verge on Saturday, YouTube in 2009 started displaying a banner to Internet Explorer 6 users, warning that support for Microsoft’s browser would […]
IANS- Online payment service provider PayU on Friday announced the acquisition of US-based financial technology firm Wibmo for $70 million (around Rs 484 crore). Given different capabilities and positioning in the value chain, Wibmo and PayU businesses will continue to run separately, PayU said in a statement. Wibmo partners and deeply integrates with banks in […]
IANS- Microsoft stock hit $1-trillion mark after the company announced impressive third-quarter results, riding on the success of its Azure Cloud as big enterprises moved to Azure infrastructure. The company posted revenue of $30.6 billion (an increase of 14 per cent from the year-ago quarter) and net income of $8.8 billion (an increase of 19 […]
indica News Bureau- A team led by Indian American Yale undergraduate student, Keshav Raghavan, has been chosen for the first time by NASA to launch miniature satellites called CubeSats for space research. Raghavan 21, is a part of a team called the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association (YUAA.) The project they are working on is called […]
IANS- Global IT spending is projected to total $3.79 trillion in 2019, an increase of 1.1 percent from 2018, the latest forecast by Gartner Inc. said on Wednesday. The data centre systems segment will experience the largest decline in 2019 with a decrease of 2.8 per cent primarily due to expected lower average selling prices […]
IANS- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg discussed for years plans to sell access to users’ data to fight rivals, NBC News reported on Tuesday, citing leaked documents. “Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly […]
