India’s government on Sunday issued an order to ban more than 200 foreign-based apps that offer illegal gambling and loan services, most of which have ties to China, in a move to protect the country’s sovereignty. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology launched the process to ban 138 gambling apps and 94 loan lending…
India Issues Order Banning Over 200 Gambling and Loan Apps, Most With Links to China: Reports
Ransomware Attacks in Europe Target Known Server Vulnerability, Cybersecurity Agencies Warn
ROME—Cybersecurity agencies in Europe are warning of ransomware attacks exploiting a 2-year-old computer bug as Italy experienced widespread internet outages. The Italian premier’s office said Sunday night the attacks affecting computer systems in the country involved “ransomware already in circulation” in a product made by cloud technology provider VMware. A Friday technical bulletin from a…
Italy Suffers Widespread Internet Outages
ROME—Thousands of Telecom Italia (TIM) customers across Italy complained of internet outages and glitches on Sunday which the company blamed on problems with an international link. Users from the northern city of Milan to the Sicilian capital Palermo reported problems, with the issue mainly focused on fixed-line internet services. Some soccer fans bemoaned interruptions to…
Microsoft: Iran Unit Behind Charlie Hebdo Hack-and-Leak Op
After the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran’s ruling cleric, a state-backed Iranian cyber unit struck back with a hack-and-leak campaign that was designed to provoke fear with the claimed pilfering of a big subscriber database, Microsoft security researchers say. The FBI blames the same Iranian cyber operators, Emennet…
Tennessee Aims to Join Growing Number of States Implementing Digital Driver’s Licenses
Tennessee is aiming to join the growing number of states across the United States that issue digital driver’s licenses (DDLs) to their residents. The bill, SB 572 (pdf), is currently making its way through the Tennessee Senate. Introduced by Democratic state Sen. Heidi Campbell, the legislation directs the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) to study…
Big Tech Earnings Face More Heat as Cloud Cover Fades
Big Tech results reinforced concerns a boom in cloud services is easing, limiting a lucrative source of profit when a slowing economy has hit the companies’ other businesses and prompting a bet on artificial intelligence as the next growth driver. Earnings from Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp.—which together dominate the cloud market—showed growth in the…
Jury: Musk Didn’t Defraud Investors With 2018 Tesla Tweets
February 3, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO—A jury on Friday decided Elon Musk didn’t defraud investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors. The nine-member jury reached its verdict after less that two hours of deliberation following a three-week trial. It represents…
Sen. Warner Expresses Grave Concerns Over TikTok’s National Security Risk
February 3, 2023
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TikTok, the popular video-sharing app owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance, whose users are now estimated to exceed 1.5 billion worldwide, has come under harsh criticism from Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who said during a Feb. 2 interview with Fox Business that his “patience is running thin” over the…
Wave of Employee Turnover Hits China’s IT Industry
February 3, 2023
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China’s IT industry has seen a wave of resignations and layoffs since last year, affecting the Chinese communist regime’s online censorship. Former employees believe political reasons and economic factors are behind the wave of employee turnover. Liu Jiang (pseudonym), a former employee of ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok, told The Epoch Times…
ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Releases Tool to Check If Text Was Written by a Human
OpenAI, the maker of chatbot ChatGPT, announced on Tuesday that it has released a new software tool to help detect whether someone is trying to pass off AI-generated text as something that was written by a person. The tool, known as a classifier, comes two months after the release of ChatGPT, a chatbot that generates…
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