Justice Department Seizes and Forfeits Approximately $500,000 From North Korean Ransomware Actors
The Justice Department today announced a complaint filed in the District of Kansas to forfeit cryptocurrency paid as ransom to North Korean hackers or otherwise used to launder such ransom payments. In May 2022, the FBI filed a sealed seizure warrant for the funds worth...
Netflix Adds 1.1 Million Paid Subscribers In Asia-Pacific In Q2
Netflix added 1.1 million paid subscribes in the Asia-Pacific region in the second quarter (Q2) this year. The Average Revenue per Membership (ARM) was -2 per cent (year-over-year), due to the impact from “our price decrease in India last December as well as plan mix,”...
Samsung To Unveil New Foldable Phones Next Month
Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it will unveil its latest foldable smartphone series next month, as the tech giant aims to achieve a breakthrough in the stalled smartphone business. The next-generation foldable smartphones, Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4, are expected to...
Apple Agrees To Pay $50 Mn To Settle Flawed ‘Butterfly’ Keyboards Lawsuit
Apple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the lawsuit over flawed "butterfly" keyboards in MacBooks in the US.
Installation Art Company Meta Sues Facebook Over Trademark Violation
Meta, a small business operating in the immersive and experiential technology industry since 2010, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for trademark violation, alleging that Mark Zuckerberg’s name change violated its established brand. The installation art company said that for 12 years, it has powered...
‘Stranger Things 4’ Generates A Record 1.3 Billion Hours Viewed: Netflix
‘Stranger Things’ season four has generated a record 1.3 billion hours viewed to date, making it the biggest season of English TV ever, Netflix has announced. The streaming giant said that its slate in the second quarter (Q2) is “headlined by season four of Stranger...
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon Chips For Next-Gen Smartwatches
Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled new Snapdragon chips for smartwatches and OPPO and Mobvoi will be among the first companies to use the new wearable platform, with 25 designs in the pipeline across segments. Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 are designed to...
6 Bugs In Popular Chinese GPS Tracker Put 1.5 Million Vehicles At Tracking Risk
Cyber-security researchers have discovered six severe vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built vehicle GPS tracker, potentially allowing hackers to track individuals without their knowledge, remotely disable fleets of corporate supply and emergency vehicles, abruptly stop civilian vehicles on dangerous highways, and more. Cyber-security company BitSight said...
Musk Plans To Countersue Twitter To Scrap $44 Billion Deal: Report
Elon Musk has reportedly planned to file a counter-lawsuit against micro-blogging site Twitter to scrap a $44 billion acquisition deal. Musk’s lawyers are angling to push a Delaware Court of Chancery judge to grant them more time and power to gather information about bots on...
Indonesia To Block Facebook, Google, Whatsapp If They Fail To Register For Licenses
The Indonesian authorities are set to block social media applications and online sites including Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp in several days if they fail to register with the country’s Ministry of Communications and Informatics. The digital giants are given time until Wednesday to complete the...
Netflix’s ‘Add A Home’ Feature To Charge For Password Sharing
Video streaming giant Netflix has announced that it is testing a new way to undertake password sharing in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. The platform launched an “add extra member” feature in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru in March 2022 and...
Microsoft Not To Ban Commercial Open Source Apps On Windows Store
Microsoft on Tuesday decided not to implement a policy to ban developers from selling open source software on Windows Store.
Instagram To Let Shoppers Pay For Products Via DM
Instagram has announced that it will allow shoppers in the US to be able to pay for products directly in messages.
NASA Delays Mission To Study Ice & Water On Lunar Surface To 2024
NASA has delayed its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission aimed to study the lunar surface’s ice and other potential resources by 2024. VIPER will be delivered to the lunar surface on American aerospace company Astrobotic of Pittsburgh’s lander via NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload...
Amazon Sues 10,000 Facebook Group Admins Over Fake Reviews
Amazon on Tuesday said it has filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on the platform in exchange for money or free products. The e-commerce giant said that it will use information discovered in...
Apple To Slow Down Hiring For 2023: Report
Apple has reportedly become the next Big Tech company to slow down hiring for 2023 owing to tough global macroeconomic conditions. The hiring changes at Apple will not affect all the teams but some verticals will see decreased hiring activities next year, according to Bloomberg....
Uber To Compensate Disabled Riders After Federal Settlement
Uber has settled with the US Department of Justice over allegations that it discriminated against disabled passengers.
Snapchat Rolls Out Chat And Video Calling Feature On Web
Snapchat on Monday announced to bring features like chatting and video calling to the desktop through a new web app for the first time. Snapchat for Web is a new way for “our community to stay connected through our camera when they’re at their computers,”...
US Govt ‘Tracking’ Millions Of People With Cell Phone Location Data
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used huge volumes of people’s cell phone location information quietly extracted from smartphone apps to track their movements on a scale not previously known, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed on Monday. The ACLU published thousands of pages...
Russia Fines Google $370 Million For Hosting Banned Videos
Russia has imposed a fine of $358 million (21 billion rubles) on Google LLC for failing to restrict access to information considered prohibited in the country. According to an announcement by Roskomnadzor, Russia’s internet watchdog, Google, and its subsidiary YouTube have failed to remove the...
