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  Telecom department asks Internet providers to block 827 porn websites

  October 24, 2018 21:48 IST

  Meity asked the Department of Telecom (DoT) to block 827 websites named in the list issued as part of the order, sources said.

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  Facebook’s election war room takes aim at fake news

  October 19, 2018 14:15 IST

  Days after President Donald Trump’s surprise victory, Mr. Zuckerberg brushed off assertions that the outcome had been influenced by fictional news stories on Facebook, calling the idea “pretty crazy”.

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  Facebook data leak: How to check what hackers accessed in your FB account

  October 13, 2018 11:52 IST

  Facebook has been quick to let users check exactly what was accessed. But beyond learning what information the attackers accessed, there's relatively little that users can do — beyond, that is, watching out for suspicious emails or texts. 

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  Facebook says hackers accessed 29 million people's accounts

  October 13, 2018 0:04 IST

  Originally Facebook said 50 million accounts could have been affected, but Facebook didn't know if they had been misused.

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  Negligible impact on net services in India due to server maintenance, says global Internet body

  October 12, 2018 22:47 IST

  ICANN has asked all internet service providers to upgrade their software that resolves the website name in to digital code and directs the traffic to right server.

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  Reports of global internet shutdown false, there will be minimum impact, says top cyber security official

  October 12, 2018 20:11 IST

  There will be no internet shutdown in India as is being circulated in the media,Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, said.

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  WhatsApp sets up system to store payments-related data locally to meet RBI norm

  October 09, 2018 13:10 IST

  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a circular dated April 6, had said all system providers shall ensure that the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them are stored in a system only in India.

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  LinkedIn acquires California-based employee engagement firm Glint

  October 09, 2018 11:21 IST

  Glint regularly gathers employee feedback on work, culture and leadership, and gives leaders the tools they need to translate those insights into action.

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  Google+ to shut down after software glitch compromises 5 lakh accounts

  October 09, 2018 7:34 IST

  The information was notified by Ben Smith, Google Fellow and vice-president of engineering, in a blog post on Monday, in which he noted that the Indian-American headed company could not confirm which users were impacted by the bug.

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  Microsoft not ready to recover files deleted by Windows 10 update: Report

  October 08, 2018 11:47 IST

  The Windows 10 October 2018 update rolled out globally on October 2.

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  BELIEVE IT OR NOT! Google agrees to pay $9 bn to remain Apple's default search engine

  September 29, 2018 12:38 IST

  While Apple uses Google as the default search engine in Safari on iOS, the company also uses Bing in various other places such as searching the web via Siri.

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  Facebook security breach: Data of 50 million users exposed, accounts from India feared hit

  September 29, 2018 8:41 IST

  It is feared that a significant number of affected users are from India, given the fact the company has the maximum 270 million users in the country.

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  Facebook hacked: 50 million accounts attacked, here is what the social media giant says

  September 28, 2018 23:31 IST

  In a statement issued on Friday, Facebook has said that the investigation was still in early stages, however, it assured users that that it has fixed the vulnerability and informed law enforcement.

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  Facebook hacked: 50 Million users account affected; passwords of 90 Mn account users reset, company share down 3%

  September 28, 2018 23:39 IST

  The company says hackers exploited the "View As" feature on the service. Facebook says it has taken steps to fix the security problem and alerted law enforcement.

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  Facebook appoints former Hotstar executive Ajit Mohan as India MD & VP

  September 24, 2018 18:57 IST

  Mohan joins Facebook from streaming platform Hotstar, where he was the CEO.

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  Google urges its employees to delete memo revealing its plan to launch search engine in China

  September 22, 2018 13:00 IST

  Authored by a Google engineer familiar with the project, the memo disclosed that the search system would require users in China to log in to perform searches. 

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  President Kovind launches logo, web portal for Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary

  September 19, 2018 12:40 IST

  The logo and web portal is part of the two-year-long celebrations from October 2, 2018 to October 2, 2020 across the country and on foreign soil.

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  Facebook faces lawsuit for hiding job ads from women

  September 19, 2018 10:53 IST

  The women job seekers accused Facebook for targeting ads for jobs in male-dominated fields to male Facebook users only, excluding all women and non-binary individuals.

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  Google's new tool can help you make our planet healthy

  September 08, 2018 15:47 IST

  The tool called Your Plan, Your Planet, is an interactive way to understand your environmental impact and learn simple, science-based ways to improve it.  

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  Twitter launches new audio-only broadcast feature, now your followers can only hear but not see you

  September 08, 2018 13:25 IST

  The new feature announced on Friday is currenly publicly available for all iOS users of the main Twitter app and its live-streaming app Periscope.

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  Amid continuous criticisms over election interference, Zuckerberg seeks more time to fix Facebook

  September 08, 2018 11:09 IST

  In a post, Zuckerberg said that Facebook started on the platform sanitising project in 2017 and "even this work will extend through 2019, I do expect us to end this year on a significantly better trajectory than when we entered it".

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  Twitter India head Taranjeet Singh quits, Balaji Krish made interim chief

  September 05, 2018 10:35 IST

  Before joining Twitter, Taranjeet Singh was sales director, South Asia for BBC Advertising. Prior to the BBC, he held various positions at Outlook Publishing.  

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  Facebook, other internet firms in 'arms race' to protect democracy: Mark Zuckerberg

  September 05, 2018 9:56 IST

  In his opinion piece for Washington Post, Zuckerberg said firms like his Facebook and others are facing "sophisticated, well-funded adversaries who are getting smarter over time."

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  Google announces new AI technology to fight online child sexual abuse

  September 04, 2018 7:58 IST

  Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.  

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  Microsoft to redesign Skype for mobile and desktop

  September 03, 2018 16:30 IST

  "We explored some design changes and heard from customers that we overcomplicated some of our core scenarios," Director of design for Skype and Outlook. 

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  Google removing 100 'bad' ads every second for violating policies, verification programme to come in soon

  September 02, 2018 18:44 IST

  After The Wall Street Journal reported that scammers were purchasing search ads and "masquerading as authorised service agents for companies such as Apple Inc", Google said on Saturday it is taking action against such scam artists.  

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  Germany braces up for expansion to 5G infrastructure by 2022

  September 01, 2018 7:35 IST

  The targets set by the network agency stipulate that by 2022 at least 98 percent of households in Germany should have access to an internet connection with a minimum of 100 megabits per second.

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  Google's Artificial Intelligence to predict earthquake aftershocks

  August 31, 2018 16:55 IST

  The timing and size of aftershocks has been understood and explained by established empirical laws but forecasting the locations of these events has proven more challenging. Machine learning-based forecasts may one day help deploy emergency services.