Category: IT news

Karachi (NUT Desk)  Women Tech Quest 2021, an initiative of 10Pearls University, is a platform for women to compete, network and showcase their tech talents. The 5th edition of WTQ was held online on April 3, 2021. More than 700 women participated in the event, not only from different cities and towns of Pakistan, but…

BEIJING (NUT DESK) China”s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released a plan to expand the coverage of the country”s gigabit network to benefit more people. The gigabit optical network is expected to cover 200 million Chinese households by the end of this year, which should be doubled to 400 million by the end…

NUT (DESK) At a time when U.S. agencies and thousands of companies are fighting off major hacking campaigns originating in Russia and China, a different kind of cyber threat is re-emerging: activist hackers looking to make a political point. Three major hacks show the power of this new wave of “hacktivism” – the exposure of…

Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, held its Virtual Partner Summit 2021 today under the theme of “Win Together”. The annual event offered a collaborative platform for Huawei’s partners, fostering an exchange of best practices and successes from the past year. Huawei announced…

President Dr. Arif Alvi emphasizes on ‘the need to share knowledge beyond physical limitations’ at Microsoft’s virtual event on education in Pakistan Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a magnifying glass on the realities of access to resources across the globe – particularly within the education space that has required educators, learners and…

Lahore (NUT DESK)  Inspector General of Police Punjab Inam Ghani on Wednesday inaugurated a “Leave and Attendance Management System” designed for weekly rest of personnel at the Central Police Office here. On this occasion, he said weekly rest would reduce workload and burden on policemen to some extent and would improve their performance. He said…

WASHINGTON (NUT DESK) – A tool designed to help businesses protect themselves from further compromises after a global hack of Microsoft email server software has been downloaded more than 25,000 times since it was released last week, the White House’s National Security Council said Monday. As a result, the number of vulnerable systems has fallen…

NUT (DESK) – Facebook Inc said on Monday it took down 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December and that it had over 35,000 people working on tackling misinformation on its platform. The company also removed more than 12 million pieces of content about COVID-19 and vaccines that global health experts flagged as misinformation,…

NUT (DESK) –  Children under 13 could start enjoying a version of the image-centric social network of Instagram that says it’s exploring to launch one with parental controls. Amid concerns about difficulties in keeping underage children off the perilous world of social media, the news comes from Instagram, which confirmed a report by BuzzFeed News.…

LONDON (NUT DESK)  Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as the Facebook Messenger app, went down globally for around 30 minutes on Friday. Many users said they were unable to log in or use the apps. The website Downdectector.com reported issues with the apps around the world. Facebook issued a statement saying its services were…