Category: Internet

The government is expecting to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection law within 10 months, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday.  The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 with a voice vote amid a walkout by opposition members over the Manipur issue. The Bill, which comes after […]

The White House on Wednesday said it had launched a multimillion-dollar cyber contest to spur use of artificial intelligence (AI) to find and fix security flaws in US government infrastructure, in the face of growing use of the technology by hackers for malicious purposes.  “Cybersecurity is a race between offense and defense,” said Anne Neuberger, […]

A group of the world’s biggest news media organizations called for revised regulations on the use of copyrighted material by makers of artificial intelligence technology, according to an open letter published on Wednesday. The note, signed by industry bodies like the News Media Alliance — which includes nearly 2,000 publications in the United States — […]

Sony has reportedly begun rolling out public beta access for cloud gaming on the PS5. As per ResetEra user ArashiGames, chosen PS Plus Premium members will be able to stream select games at up to 4K resolution. While the company confirmed the addition of cloud streaming in June, it’s only now that we’re learning about […]

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 with a voice vote following a walkout by the opposition members over the Manipur issue. The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on Monday. The bill which comes after six years of the Supreme Court declaring “Right to Privacy” as a fundamental […]

YouTube on Wednesday said curbing misinformation is critical for platforms and society as tech evolves and AI powered tools come in, and asserted that the video streaming platform will act swiftly against technically manipulated content that aims to mislead users and cause real world harm. YouTube has has well established community guidelines in place that […]

Intel processors are affected by Downfall, a security flaw that can allow a malicious user to gain access to sensitive and private user data from users’ computers, and the chipmaker is rolling out fixes that patch the vulnerability on affected systems. The flaw was detected by a California-based researcher and disclosed to Intel, allowing the […]

Just the second week into August, and OTT platforms are churning out content at high speed, with the Indian side receiving three major TV series releases. The standout has to be Made in Heaven season 2, as Sobhita Dhulipala and Arjun Mathur return to plan and navigate a slew of big fat Indian weddings, only […]

Japan’s Sony on Wednesday said first-quarter profit tumbled due to weaker performances from its movies and financial businesses. In April-June, operating profit slid 31 percent to JPY 253 billion ($1.8 billion or roughly Rs. 14,907 crore), in line with estimates. Profit at its movies division plunged by two-thirds due to lower sales for television content […]

Take-Two Interactive Software forecast second-quarter net bookings below Wall Street targets on Tuesday, in a sign that spending on games remained under pressure amid inflationary pressures. US spending on videogame content, including new games and character skins, was flat in the first half of the year, while console sales rose 23 percent, according to data […]

Facebook Messenger will drop support for sending SMS messages over a cellular network soon. The Meta-owned messaging platform introduced SMS integration on Android smartphones in 2016 and allowed users to view text messages alongside messages from Facebook users in a single app. Currently, SMS text messages appear in purple, and Messenger conversations are shown in […]

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature for its users. The Meta-owned social media platform now allows you to share your screen during video calls. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this feature through posts on his Facebook and Instagram profiles. This addition puts Meta one step forward in its plan to compete with traditional video-conferencing […]

The Little Mermaid is headed to Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar on Wednesday, September 6. The live-action reimagining of the eponymous 1989 animated musical will arrive 103 days after its theatrical release on May 26, during which it bagged $566.6 million (about Rs. 4,692 crore) at the global box office. That’s a bit longer than the […]

Amazon.com is in talks about joining other technology companies as a cornerstone investor in SoftBank Group’s Arm ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Amazon’s potential involvement in the IPO, which has not previously been reported, underscores Arm’s significance in cloud computing. Amazon Web Services, the internet […]

Canadian news industry groups on Tuesday asked the country’s antitrust regulator to investigate Meta Platforms’ decision to block news on its platforms in the country, accusing the Facebook parent of abusing its dominant position. Meta started blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms for all users in Canada last week in response to a […]

Amazon’s 2023 edition of the Great Freedom Festival Sale is coming to an end in just a few hours. The sale kicked off in India on August 4, with the e-commerce site providing substantial discounts and other offers on a range of products, including electronic devices such as laptops, tablets, PC peripherals, TVs, headphones, and […]

Baldur’s Gate III is dominating the Steam charts with record-breaking numbers, surpassing the 800,000 concurrent player mark on August 6. To be precise, the peak count was 814,666, perching it as the ninth-highest ranking PC game, when sorted by all-time peak variable — right below Hogwarts Legacy. It’s an impressive feat, considering the game had […]

Apple and Samsung Electronics will invest in SoftBank Group-owned chip designer Arm at its initial public offering (IPO), expected in September, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported on Tuesday. Reuters reported in June that Arm was in talks with some ten companies – including Apple, Samsung, and Intel – with the aim of bringing on one or […]

A hydra-headed breach centered on a single American software maker has compromised data at about 600 organizations worldwide, according to cyber analyst tallies corroborated by Reuters. But more than two months after the breach was first disclosed by Massachusetts-based Progress Software, the parade of victims has scarcely slowed. The tallies show that nearly 40 million […]

Amazon Great Freedom Festival 2023 Sale has entered its last day in India with several deals and discounts on a range of products ranging from smartphones, TVs, TWS earbuds, wearables, PC accessories and more. Amazon is also offering discounts of up to 10 percent on purchases using SBI credit cards during the sale. There are […]

Meta Platforms is asking a court in Norway to stop a fine the Nordic country’s data regulator imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram for breaching users’ privacy, according to a court filing. Meta Platforms will be fined 1 million crowns ($97,700) per day from August 14 over privacy breaches, Norway’s data protection authority […]

Walt Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be applied across the entertainment conglomerate, even as Hollywood writers and actors battle to limit the industry’s exploitation of the technology. Launched earlier this year, before the Hollywood writers’ strike, the group is looking to develop AI applications in-house as […]

Amazon Great Freedom Festival Sale 2023 is only a few hours away from being wrapped up. The sale began on August 4 with the e-commerce site offering lucrative discounts and other deals on several items including electronic products like laptops, tablets, PC accessories, TVs, headphones, and of course, smartphones. Among them, here are some of the best […]

The global video games market would return to growth in 2023 on the back of strong sales of consoles such as Sony’s PlayStation 5, according to gaming market research firm Newzoo. Newzoo said it expects industry revenue to rise 2.6 percent to $187.7 billion (roughly Rs. 15,54,231 crore) in 2023, driven by a 7.4 percent […]

This year’s Call of Duty has been revealed as Modern Warfare III, and it’s coming November 10. Publisher Activision dropped a brief teaser, featuring an abstract mosaic of familiar characters from the franchise — Captain Price and Vladimir Makarov — and a voiceover saying, “Never bury your enemies alive.” There’s also the mention of ‘heads […]

Britain’s data regulator is gathering information on Snapchat to establish whether the US instant messaging app is doing enough to remove underage users from its platform, two people familiar with the matter said. Reuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its platform in […]

Amazon.com is set to meet next week with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ahead of a potential long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against the retailer, according to a source familiar with the matter. The FTC began probing Amazon during former President Donald Trump’s administration when the government decided to investigate Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple for […]

Facebook owner Meta Platforms will be fined 1 million crowns ($98,500) per day over privacy breaches from August 14, Norway’s data protection authority told Reuters on Monday, a decision that could have wider European implications. The regulator, Datatilsynet, had said on July 17 that the company would be fined if it did not address privacy […]

Red Dead Redemption is finally headed to PS4 and Nintendo Switch, on August 17. No, this isn’t a remake or that long-rumoured remastered version, but rather a port of the original 2010 game, and includes the Undead Nightmare zombie add-on. Rockstar Games’ Western epic was originally launched on the PS3 and Xbox 360, after which […]

The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police on Monday claimed to have unearthed a Crypto Ponzi scam worth Rs 1,000 crore. The EOW arrested Gurtej Singh Sidhu, (40), the Indian head of ‘STA Crypto token’, a Ponzi firm from Sri-Ganganagar, Rajasthan. The EOW in a statement said that Gurtej is a native of Faridkot, […]