Category: IT news
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India’s digital media regulation flares up fears about press freedom
NEW DELHI: India’s new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the world’s largest democracy. India, which has one of the world’s biggest and most diverse media industries, last month announced the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code,…
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Bitcoin passes $60,000 for first time with backing from corporate heavyweights
PARIS: Bitcoin briefly rose above $60,000 for the first time on Saturday, as increasing backing from corporate heavyweights helps the world´s most popular virtual currency continue its record-breaking run. The cryptocurrency hit an all-time high of $60,012 at 1149 GMT, according to the website CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin has been on a meteoric rise since March last…
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Facebook to let content creators earn money from short-form videos
CALIFORNIA: Facebook Inc will allow content creators on its platform to earn revenue from short-form videos via advertisements, the social network said on Thursday. The announcement came in a blog where the company detailed its plans to help creators make more money, as smaller tech rivals have been racing to attract famous social media personalities.…
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Apple’s silicon design centre in Germany to cost $1.2b
BERLIN: Apple said on Wednesday it would establish a European silicon design centre in Munich, Germany, and invest more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) over the next three years in expanding its team there and in research and development. Munich is already Apple’s largest engineering hub in Europe, with close to 1,500 engineers from…
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Facebook launching ‘lite’ for countries having lower Bandwidth
JERUSALEM: Facebook said it was launching a “lite” version of Instagram in 170 countries that will enable people with poor internet to access the photo and video sharing social networking service. Instagram Lite will be available for Android-based phones and require less bandwidth than the traditional version. The app itself requires just 2 megabytes (MB)…
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LinkedIn China suspends new sign-ups to ´respect law´
BEIJING: Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn has halted new member sign-ups for its service in China while it reviews its compliance with local laws, the company said in a statement. The careers-focused site has had a Chinese-language presence since 2014, when it decided to expand by agreeing to stick to strict censorship laws, and now has…
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EU closing in on Apple over Spotify complaint: sources
BRUSSELS: The EU will escalate its probe into whether Apple is unfairly squeezing out music streaming rivals, in what could be the iPhone-makers biggest anti-trust case yet, several sources close to the case said Tuesday. The case would land as Apple faces a growing rebellion from firms that want to break free of the global…
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New App to make FIRs digital and dynamic
Lahore (NUT Desk) A new App is going to be developed for digital monitoring of FIRs (from receipt of application to registration) in which receipt and registration time of case at the front desk can be seen with just one click. With the App, the delaying factors will be highlighted and those responsible for delay…
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Hackers hit banks surveillance, jails and more
SAN FRANCISCO, US: A US hacker collective on Tuesday claimed to have tapped into footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, carmaker giant and other sites to expose “the surveillance state.” Images captured from hacked surveillance video were posted on Twitter with an #OperationPanopticon hashtag. “What if we just absolutely ended surveillance capitalism…
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‘Active threat’ seeks action despite Microsoft patch
The White House urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted amid a hack of Microsoft Corp’s Outlook email program, saying a recent software patch still left serious vulnerabilities. “This is an active threat still developing and we urge network operators to take it very seriously,” a White…