Access to Russian video-hosting site RuTube was reportedly restored after a three-day outage, following a cyberattack that had demanded the attention of expert cybersecurity teams and called the service’s durability into question.Read More
Monthly Archives: July 2022
India’s financial crime fighting agency, the Enforcement Directorate, has reportedly asked a court to re-instate a freeze on $725 million in the Indian bank accounts of Xiaomi as it investigates fund transfers by the Chinese smartphone giant.Read More
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has expressed that he has no interest to retake the helm of the social media company. The recent statement hints at Dorsey’s limited involvement if Elon Musk manages to successfully close the takeover deal.Read More
Facebook owner Meta is preparing cutbacks in its Reality Labs division, during a weekly Q&A session. The division takes care of strategies to refocus on hardware products. The company is not planning any layoffs.Read More
Google is rolling out a new feature for YouTube Shorts. With the newly launched Green Screen feature, creators can include a short video segment from another user’s YouTube video or Shorts video when creating new Shorts content.Read More
WhatsApp has started identifying “legal” names of users who have signed up for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based payments feature. These names will also be shared with people who receive payments through WhatsApp.Read More
Shares of Tesla and Twitter have tumbled this week as investors deal with the fallout and potential legal issues surrounding Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,40,100 crore) bid to buy the social media platform.Read More
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media companies should act to blunt the effect of false information in this year’s US midterm congressional elections, requests rights groups. After the 2020 presidential race won by US Democratic President Joe Biden, several social media platforms backed away from designing policies to fight election disinformation.Read More
Twitter has confirmed that two senior executives are heading for the exit and it has paused most hiring, as Elon Musk stands poised to become the global messaging platform’s new owner, according to a company spokesperson.Read More
WhatsApp is reportedly testing chat filters for all users. The feature, which provides an easy way to find certain chats, was previously exclusive to business accounts.Read More