India’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday fined tech-giant Google 9.36 billion rupees ($113 million) for abusing its dominant position to promote its in-app payment system, the second penalty imposed by India in a week. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said that Google’s Play Store policies require app developers to use Google’s billing system for apps…
India Fines Google $113 Million Over Abuse of Dominance for Second Time in a Week
Trump Was Right on TikTok, says Top Democrat Senator
October 26, 2022
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One of the Democratic Party’s leading figures, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who is head of the United States Senate intelligence committee, has said former President Donald Trump was right when it came to the security risks around the Chinese-owned TikTok. “This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok…
Google Sets Up High-Tech School at Israeli University
JERUSALEM—Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Israel’s Reichman University have set up a school to train high-tech professionals, offering courses in computer programming, sales and data analysis among other subjects, the university said on Monday. Israel has a vibrant high-tech sector but a severe shortage of skilled tech workers has led to tens of thousands of unfilled…
WhatsApp Back Online After Global Outage Hits Users
BENGALURU/STOCKHOLM—Messaging app WhatsApp was starting to come back online at 0900 GMT and the company said the issue has been fixed after users across the world reported problems earlier on Tuesday. At around 0750 GMT, outage reporting site Downdetector had shown over 68,000 users had reported problems with the app in the United Kingdom. Problems…
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Says E-Mail Was Hacked
DUBAI—Iran’s atomic energy organization said that an e-mail server belonging to one of its subsidiaries had been hacked from a foreign country and information published online, state media reported on Sunday. An Iranian hacking group, Black Reward, said in a statement published on Twitter that it had released hacked information relating to Iranian nuclear activities,…
Neuralink’s ‘Show & Tell’ Delayed by One Month, Elon Musk Says
Billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet on Sunday pushed back by a month the date for Neuralink’s “show & tell” event to Nov. 30 and did not provide further information. The chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc. and rocket developer SpaceX said in August that the event would be held on Oct….
Customer Data Lost in Cyberattack on Australia’s Largest Health Insurer
Australia’s largest healthcare insurer Medibank has apologised after revealing customer data had been stolen in a recent cyber attack. It comes after an initial announcement from the insurance giant that customer data for its ahm brand and international student business was lost in a hack. “This is a distressing development, and Medibank unreservedly apologises to…
India Successfully Launches Rocket Carrying 36 Satellites Into Orbit
October 24, 2022
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The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Sunday that it had successfully launched its heaviest rocket carrying 36 satellites owned by London-based satellite company OneWeb into orbit. The LVM3 rocket was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 12:07 a.m. local time carrying 36 OneWeb satellites and weighing 5,796 kilograms in total,…
CCP Seeks to Use TikTok Data Against Americans: Former Pentagon Official
October 21, 2022
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China’s communist regime is in a cold war with the United States and seeks to use data gathered by companies like TikTok against American interests, according to a former Pentagon official. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will use apps like TikTok as weapons of mass manipulation and misinformation, according to Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software…
Indian Court Refuses to Unfreeze Assets of Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi
October 21, 2022
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On Oct. 6, an Indian High Court declined to lift a freeze on $676 million of Xiaomi’s assets, dealing a blow to the company’s operations in India. The company, the world’s third-largest smartphone manufacturer, said the court’s move had “effectively halted” its operations in the Indian market, according to a Reuters report. The move comes…
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