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California lawmakers pass AI safety bill
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Dark Web offers fake Covid results, vax certificates starting from Rs 1,800
“Multiple vaccine variants are also available for sale: AstraZeneca, Sputnik, SINOPHARM and Johnson & Johnson, with prices ranging between US$ 500 and US$ 1000 per dose,” the report noted.
India antitrust watchdog orders probe into WhatsApp’s new privacy policy
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said WhatsApp had violated competition laws “through its exploitative and exclusionary conduct … in the garb of policy update.”
Authentication platform Prove acquires MEDICI Global
MEDICI Founder and CEO, Aditya Khurjekar said “We built our platform to enable at-scale innovation in fintech with domain depth and ecosystem-wide engagement. The MEDICI team is looking forward to bringing our passion for this space to Prove in the next phase of the company’s growth journey.”
Sebi tightens rules for exchange disruptions
SEBI also said on Monday it had asked the NSE to identify those responsible for the failure within 21 days and to determine why it did not move to a backup swifter.
Brokers and traders criticised the NSE sharply for not communicating well enough during last month’s outage, which they said caused losses for some investors.
The outage was the second major one for the NSE in recent years after a five-hour shutdown in 2017 due to a software problem.
Skymet launche adigital platform for connecting banking and insurance sector to agriculture
This digital platform paves the way for farmers to enhance crop yield and decrease crop risks.
skAIgeo helps the insurance sector to customise polices or programs after evaluation of crop risk assessment using different indices.
15.5 lakh cyber security incidents in 2019, 2020: Govt tells Lok Sabha
Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the CERT-In receives inputs from its situational awareness systems and threat intelligence sources about malware infections in networks of entities across sectors.
FIU warns COVID-19 upheavals might beget new financial cyber crimes
“The upheavals generated by COVID-19 might prove to be a breeding ground for novel modus operandi and crimes such as electronic frauds and cybercrimes,” he said.
Electric shock – German auto stocks get a new lease of life
Volkswagen, the German company competing with Toyota to be the world’s biggest vehicle seller by volume, laid out its ambitious plan to turn 70% of European sales at its core VW brand electric during its “power day” last Monday.German rival BMW, meanwhile, said on Wednesday it was aiming for half of its sales to be non-fossil fuel vehicles by 2030, and that around 90% of its market categories would have fully-electric models available by 2023.
Advanced nuclear reactors no safer than conventional nuclear plants, says science group
“In many cases, they are worse with regard to … safety, and the potential for severe accidents and potential nuclear proliferation,” said Lyman, author of the report UCS released Thursday called “‘Advanced’ Isn’t Always Better”.
Facebook fails in bid to derail $15 billion privacy suit
US wiretap law makes it illegal to snoop on electronic communications unless one is a party to the exchange.
The suit accuses Facebook of wrongly tracking users away from the social network, then making money from the data by selling it to marketers for targeting ads.