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Facebook owner Meta gave user information to hackers who pretended to be law enforcement officials last year, a company source said Wednesday, highlighting the risks of a measure used in urgent cases. Imposters were able to get details like physical addresses or phone numbers in response to falsified "emergency data requests," which can slip past privacy barriers, said the source who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. Read more:  Blue Origin's 4th astro-tourism flight set to launch without big names Criminal hackers have been compromising email accounts or websites tied to police or government and claiming they can’t wait for a judge’s order for information because it’s an "urgent matter of life and death," cyber expert Brian Krebs wrote Tuesday. Bloomberg news agency, which originally reported Meta being targeted, also reported that Apple had provided customer data in response to forged data requests. Apple and Meta did not officia...

The fourth commercial flight of Jeff Bezos space tourism venture Blue Origin, offering short suborbital joyrides to well-heeled thrill-seekers and celebrity guests, has been delayed by two days because of poor weather conditions, the company said. Blue Origin s New Shepard spacecraft was scheduled for liftoff on Tuesday from the company s launch site in rural west Texas at 8:30 a.m. CDT (1330 GMT) with six would-be citizen astronauts strapped into the crew cabin atop the fully autonomous launch vehicle, standing nearly six stories tall. Read more:  Former aircraft designer Shimada may find silver lining in Toshiba gloom The company said on Monday it had postponed the launch of the NS-20 mission to March 31 due to forecasts of high winds during the launch and recovery of the spacecraft. Blue Origin said the vehicle has met all mission requirements for flight and weather is the only factor stalling launch. Unlike Blue Origin s first three commercial flights, with passenger ros...

US doctors announced Thursday they had successfully performed a double lung transplant on a patient with terminal lung cancer, giving new hope to others who also are in advanced stages of the deadly disease. Albert Khoury, a 54-year-old non-smoker, underwent a seven-hour surgery to receive his new lungs at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago on September 25, 2021. Six months on, the lungs are working well and he has no signs of cancer in his body. "Lung transplantation for lung cancer is extremely uncommon with few cases reported," Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine, said in a statement. "For patients with stage 4 cancer, lung transplantation is considered a complete 'no-no,' but because Albert's cancer was confined only to his chest, we were confident we could clear all the cancer during surgery and save his life." Surgeons are generally reluctant to proceed with such transplants because if there are even a few cancerou...

The crisis at Toshiba Corp may have a silver lining for new boss Taro Shimada, allowing him to keep - at least for now - businesses pivotal to his digital strategy that predecessors had planned to sell. Investors last week voted down management s plan to spin off Toshiba s devices unit with nearly 60% opposition, as well as a rival shareholder proposal to solicit buyout offers. That left the troubled 146-year-old conglomerate without a clear immediate direction. Read more:  Elon Musk giving 'serious thought' to building new social media platform But it could give Shimada, a former aircraft designer and Siemens AG executive, leeway for his plan to boost subscription revenue by tying software to hardware. It also allows him to hang onto equipment maker Toshiba Tec Corp, which was considered "non core" in the now-rejected spin-off. Shimada has praised some businesses at Toshiba Tec for marrying digital to hardware and sources say he didn t want to sell it. It s un...

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving "serious thought" to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet on Saturday. Musk was responding to a Twitter user's question on whether he would consider building a social media platform consisting of an open source algorithm and one that would prioritize free speech, and where propaganda was minimal. Musk, a prolific user of Twitter himself, has been critical of the social media platform and its policies of late. He has said the company is undermining democracy by failing to adhere to free speech principles. His tweet comes a day after he put out a Twitter poll asking users if they believed Twitter adheres to the principle of free speech, to which over 70% voted "no". "The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully," he said on Friday. If Musk decides to go ahead with creating a new platform, he would be joining a growing portfolio of techn...

Without Russian help, climate scientists worry how they’ll keep up their important work of documenting warming in the Arctic. Europe’s space agency is wrestling with how its planned Mars rover might survive freezing nights on the Red Planet without its Russian heating unit. In scientific fields with profound implications for mankind’s future and knowledge, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is causing a swift and broad decaying of relationships and projects that bound together Moscow and the West. Post-Cold War bridge-building through science is unraveling as Western nations seek to punish and isolate the Kremlin by drying up support for scientific programs involving Russia. Read more:  Digital Markets Act: EU Negotiators Agree To Landmark Law to Curb US Big Tech Dominance The costs of this decoupling, scientists say, could be high on both sides. Tackling climate change and other problems will be tougher without collaboration and time will be lost. Russian and W...

Negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states agreed Thursday on a landmark law to curb the market dominance of US big tech giants such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple. Meeting in Brussels the lawmakers nailed down a long list of do’s and don’ts that will single out the world’s most iconic web giants as internet "gatekeepers" subject to special rules. Read more:  OneWeb to launch satellites with rival SpaceX The "Digital Markets Act" (DMA) has sped through the bloc’s legislative procedures and is designed to protect consumers and give rivals a better chance to survive against the world’s powerful tech juggernauts. "The agreement ushers in a new era of tech regulation worldwide," said German MEP Andreas Schwab, who led the negotiations for the European Parliament. "The Digital Markets Act puts an end to the ever-increasing dominance of Big Tech companies," he added. The main point of the law is to avert the years of proce...

Consuming artificial sweeteners could increase the risk of developing cancer, a large-scale study suggested Thursday, but experts not involved in the research said it was not enough proof to consider changing current health advice. Sweeteners are consumed by millions every day in products like diet soda, partly as a way to avoid weight gain from sugar— but how healthy these substitutes are themselves has long been a matter of controversy. To assess the cancer risk of sweeteners, researchers analysed the data of more than 100,000 people in France who self-reported their diet, lifestyle and medical history in intervals between 2009-2021 as part of the NutriNet-Sante study. They then compared consumption to the rate of cancer, while adjusting for other variables such as smoking, poor diet, age and physical activity. The participants who consumed the largest amount of sweeteners, "beyond the median amount, had an increased cancer risk of 13% compared to non-consumers," Math...

More than 600 children with cancer have now been evacuated from Ukraine in order to resume life-saving treatment in Europe and North America. About 200 hospitals worldwide have offered care - without which, the children have no chance of survival. Doctors helping to co-ordinate the international effort say it's the largest rescue mission of its kind.   from Health - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/oDX8Azh https://ift.tt/Ow6nx4X admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) https://ift.tt/oDX8Azh

Weeks after Moscow forced the 11th-hour cancellation of a rocket launch for British satellite venture OneWeb from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the company said on Monday it has contracted with Elon Musk's SpaceX to send its satellites into orbit. Terms of the deal with California-based SpaceX, a direct competitor of OneWeb in the burgeoning broadband satellite industry, were not disclosed. Earlier this month, OneWeb called off the scheduled March 4 launch of 36 satellites from Baikonur and suspended ties with Russia's space agency Roscosmos because of last-minute demands imposed on the company by Moscow, including a guarantee that OneWeb's technology would not be used for military purposes. The OneWeb launch scrub came amid heightened tensions between Russia and NATO governments, including Britain, over economic sanctions imposed against Moscow by the West in response to Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. The British government, which holds a...

Thailand has issued rules to ban digital assets from being used to pay for goods and services from April 1, the market regulator said on Wednesday. The move was in line with earlier discussions between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT) on a need to regulate such activity by digital asset business operators as it could impact the country’s financial stability and overall economy, the SEC said in a statement. Read more:  Dancing Elon Musk hands drivers first Teslas from Germany’s new gigafactory Digital asset business operators that provide such services must comply with the new rules within 30 days from the effective date, it said. The BOT has said repeatedly that it does not support cryptocurrencies as payments. It will hold a briefing on regulatory guidelines for banks’ digital asset business later on Wednesday. In January, the regulator in Indonesia also warned financial firms not to offer and facilitate crypto sales, amid a boom i...

Loud music played as 30 customers and their families got their first glimpse of their shiny new vehicles through a twinkling, neon-lit Tesla-branded tunnel, cheering and cheering as Tesla Chief Executive Musk danced and joked with the fans. “It’s a great day for the factory,” Musk said, describing it as “another step towards a sustainable future.” Musk said Tesla is likely to launch a test version of its new Full Self-Driving software in Europe, possibly next year depending on regulatory approval. “It’s quite difficult to drive fully autonomously in Europe,” he told factory workers on Tuesday, saying there was still a lot of work to be done to deal with tricky driving situations in Europe, where the roads vary greatly from country to country. Although German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who also attended the event, hailed the gigafactory as the future of the auto industry, it was met with opposition and some environmental activists blocked entrance to the plant while displaying banner...

A Moscow court on Monday banned Meta-owned social networks Facebook and Instagram in Russia over "extremist activity." The Tverskoy district court said in a ruling that it agreed to "the claims of the Prosecutor General's Office to ban the activities of Meta corporation" and the decision "takes effect immediately." The ban, however, does not apply to WhatsApp messenger, which is also owned by the US tech giant, it added. Prosecutors sued Meta for temporarily lifting the ban on posting calls for violence against Russians in the context of Moscow’s war on Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24. Meta has also been prohibited from opening branches and conducting commercial activities in Russia. Separately, the country's Investigative Committee had opened a criminal case over the "illegal calls for murder and violence against citizens of the Russian Federation." Roskomnadzor, the federal media regulator, had already temporarily banned Faceboo...

Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp is rolling out a message reactions feature for Android users, WABetainfo reported Tuesday. The WhatsApp news tracker said that WhatsApp is currently releasing the feature to certain beta testers on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.8.3. The users will have options of six reactions — like, love, laugh, surprised, sad and thanks. According to WABetainfo, this update was in the pipeline as the messaging platform has rolled out the ability to manage reaction notifications on WhatsApp beta for iOS and WhatsApp Desktop beta. However, for now, only a few users will be able to use this feature; while others will have to wait for a future update. admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) from Science & Technology - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/z8fMEgb https://ift.tt/y56d40C

The U.S. Justice Department, which has accused Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google of breaking antitrust law in its search business, asked a judge to find that the company abused an attorney-client privilege designation to avoid turning over documents. In a court filing, the Justice Department asked for Google to be sanctioned for creating a "Communicate with Care" program that trains workers to include an attorney and a request for advice when writing about sensitive business matters. Read more:  Australia to make Big Tech hand over misinformation data "Often, knowing the game, the in-house counsel included in these Communicate-with-Care emails does not respond at all," the department said, adding that many of the emails had to do with revenue share agreements that Google had struck with other companies. A Google spokesperson said that the company had given the government more than 4 million documents. "Our teams have conscientiously worked for years to resp...

China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country's northeast as it battles its biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two years. The country has largely kept the virus at bay since it brought to heel its initial outbreak in 2020 using targeted lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions. But the Omicron strain has broken through its defences in recent months and taken hold in multiple cities. Jilin, the second-biggest city in Jilin province, will lockdown about 4.5 million inhabitants for three days from Monday night, local authorities announced. More than 4,000 new infections were reported across China on Sunday — with two-thirds in Jilin province, which borders Russia and North Korea. Changchun, Jilin province’s capital, said Saturday it would also tighten restrictions for three days. Since March 11, Changchun’s nine million people have only been allowed out once every two days to buy food. The new measures mean only medical personnel and othe...

Australia’s media regulator will be able to force internet companies to provide internal data about how they have handled misinformation and disinformation, the latest measure by the country’s government to crack down on Big Tech. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will also be able to enforce an internet industry code on uncooperative platforms, the federal government said on Monday, joining governments around the world seeking to reduce the spread of harmful falsehoods online. Read more:  Telegram booms as Russia's digital landscape shrinks after invasion of Ukraine The planned laws are a response to an ACMA report that found four-fifths of Australian adults had experienced misinformation about COVID-19 and 76% thought online platforms should do more to cut the amount of false and misleading content shared online. The laws broadly align with efforts by Europe to curb damaging online content, which are due to take effect by the end of 2022, although the...

Popular messaging application Telegram has become a go-to platform since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It has benefitted from the gap left by Russia’s blocking of Facebook and Instagram, offering a platform for mass messaging in a way similar to social media. The platform also provides one of the last windows on Russia, but also an open channel to the horrors facing an under siege Ukraine. "Our main hope is connected with Telegram channel," Galina Timchenko, director of the independent news site Meduza that Russia has moved to block, told the Committee to Protect Journalists. Read more:  Russia tells Google to stop spreading threats against Russians on YouTube According to daily figures provided by Telegram, the app has been downloaded over 150 million times since the beginning of the year, with the official figure of half a billion active users dating back to January 2021. Prior to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Telegram benefitted from not using the same economic ...

Russia on Friday demanded that Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google stop spreading what it called threats against Russian citizens on its YouTube video-sharing platform, a move that could presage an outright block of the service on Russian territory. The regulator, Roskomnadzor, said adverts on the platform were calling for the communications systems of Russia and Belarus' railway networks to be suspended and that their dissemination was evidence of the U.S. company's anti-Russian position. It did not say which accounts were publishing the adverts. "The actions of YouTube's administration are of a terrorist nature and threaten the life and health of Russian citizens," the regulator said. "Roskomnadzor categorically opposes such advertising campaigns and demands that Google stop broadcasting anti-Russia videos as soon as possible." Google removed an advertisement that was flagged by the Russian government, according to a source familiar with the matt...

Meta has launched two new initiatives in Pakistan, focused on womens’ safety online that includes the Online Safety Guide and StopNCII (Non-consensual intimate images) to help users safely navigate cyberspace. The critical safety advisory available in English and Urdu is expected to boost digital literacy and responsible online behaviour among users, thereby creating safer online spaces for women to connect and express themselves without restraints. The safety guide, now available at Meta’s Safety Centre, is part of the company’s efforts to equip and prepare users for the challenges of the modern digital world. Millions of people in Pakistan use Meta platforms to connect and pursue shared interests. However, it is always good to update oneself on issues around online harassment, unwanted messages and a range of fraudulent and criminal activities in the online space. Meta has policies and systems in place to tackle online violence against women, aided by awareness programs to enab...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the increasing COVID-19 cases in Asia are just the "tip of the iceberg" even though the cases have been seeing a decline over the last few weeks. Taking to Twitter, the Director-General of WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom wrote: "These increases are occurring despite reductions in testing in some countries, which means the cases we are seeing are just the tip of the iceberg." He suggested that the real spread of the virus is "way more alarming" than what the numbers are showing. Issuing the warning in very blatant terms, he reminded people that with the rise in COVID cases, the number of deaths has also increased. For this reason, precautions are a must, he said. The world is seeing an enormous amount of cases in areas where no preventive measures are being taken, Tedros added. The cases are particularly high in places where vaccines are not being administered on a large scale. He asked all countries to be vi...

American chip-making giant Intel said it planned to invest tens of billions of euros in the European Union, as the continent seeks to reduce its reliance on semiconductors from Asia. The project to boost the entire production process, from the research of new technologies to the manufacturing and packaging of semiconductors, could total up to 80 billion euros ($87.9 billion) over the next decade, the group said in a statement. The production of the key technology, also known as chips, has become a strategic priority in Europe as well as the United States, after the shock of the pandemic choked off supply, bringing factories to a standstill and emptying stores of products. The details of the of the announcement were hotly anticipated in Europe, where governments have been jostling to host new production facilities as the continent seeks to reduce its dependence on Asian chip imports. Earlier this year the EU passed the Chips Act, a 43-billion-euro plan to boost production on the c...

Western sanctions against Russia could cause the International Space Station to crash, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos warned on Saturday, calling for the punitive measures to be lifted. According to Dmitry Rogozin, the sanctions, some of which predate Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spacecraft servicing the ISS. As a result, the Russian segment of the station — which helps correct its orbit — could be affected, causing the 500-tonne structure to “fall down into the sea or onto land”, the Roscosmos chief wrote on Telegram. “The Russian segment ensures that the station’s orbit is corrected (on average 11 times a year), including to avoid space debris”, said Rogozin, who regularly expresses his support for the Russian army in Ukraine on social networks. Publishing a map of the locations where the ISS could possibly come down, he pointed out that it was unlikely to be in Russia. “But the populations of other countries, especially thos...

Russia moved on Friday to block Instagram access and launched a criminal case against its owner Meta, as Moscow fired back at the tech giant for allowing posts calling for violence against Russian forces. This new escalation follows Russia’s blocking of Facebook and limiting of Twitter in a confrontation with US social media platforms that has mushroomed since its invasion of Ukraine. A day after Meta confirmed a temporary easing of its rules to allow calls to violence like "death to the Russian invaders," Russia’s media regulator said it would restrict access by Monday to hugely popular Instagram because it contains "calls to commit violent acts". In what appeared to be damage control, Meta’s global affairs president Nick Clegg responded by saying the loosened rules would only apply to people posting from inside Ukraine. "We will not tolerate Russophobia or any kind of discrimination, harassment or violence towards Russians on our platform," he adde...

Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy. The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to internal emails to its content moderators. “As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders'. We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. The calls for the leaders' deaths will be allowed unless they contain other targets or have two indicators of credibility, such as the locati...

Apple Inc's low-cost 5G model should enhance the iPhone maker's appeal in Asia where it is in a stiff battle with multiple rivals from Samsung to Vivo, analysts believe. After focusing on high-end phones during the pandemic-induced supply chain crisis, Apple this week unveiled 5G connectivity to its iPhone SE - for $429 - which is likely to attract more lower-end buyers in emerging markets. "The new 3rd gen iPhone SE could be effective in gaining incremental share among price sensitive consumers, especially in Asia," Cowen and Company brokerage said, citing China and India in particular. Counterpoint Research said the earlier 4G iPhone SE accounted for 12% of total iPhone sales from its launch in Q2 2020 until the end of 2021, with Japan the biggest market after the United States. "This time we expect demand to open up more across other markets like Europe, SE (South East) Asia and Korea – regions where many consumers stayed away because of the lack of 5G s...

Scientists have pinpointed 16 new genetic variants in people who developed severe COVID-19 in a large study published on Monday that could help researchers develop treatments for very sick patients. The results suggest that people with severe COVID have genes that predispose them to one of two problems: failure to limit the ability of the virus to make copies of itself, or excessive inflammation and blood clotting. The scientists said their discoveries, published in the journal Nature, could help prioritise the likely treatments that could work against the disease. Eventually, the information could even help predict which patients were likely to become severely ill. "It is potentially possible in future that we will be able to make predictions about patients based on their genome at the point of presenting (for) critical care," said Kenneth Baillie, consultant in critical care medicine at the University of Edinburgh and one of the study authors, told reporters. The gen...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday congratulated Pakistan on vaccinating 100 million citizens against COVID-19. “Heartiest Congratulations to Pakistan,” the WHO wrote on Twitter. "The WHO applauds Govt of Pakistan for having over 100 million individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 virus." “This indicates the tremendous efforts made by the Government of Pakistan in ensuring that everyone across the country has access to COVID-19 vaccination,” the tweet said. Earlier in the day, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Faisal Sultan has also announced the news on the microblogging platform. The COVID-19 positivity rate in Pakistan dropped to 2% on March 6, the lowest level in the last two months as per data issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Sunday morning. The last time the positivity ratio dropped this low was on January 5 when the country reported a 1.8% positivity rate. The latest stats show that P...

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is working on a new feature, message reactions and WABetainfo has now reported that there is something more about this feature. Besides the option to react to a message through the reactions button, WhatsApp will soon roll out a new animation effect with it. This, however, is nothing very important, but it shows that the company is keeping small details in view before finally releasing the feature. The WhatsApp news tracker elaborated how the new feature would work through a video but we will show this to you through the screengrabs taken from it. As you can see, a tab with multiple reaction options pops up when a message within the WhatsApp chat is selected. When the users will tap any of these options, the reaction will be sent in the form of an animation. The feature is under development for WhatsApp Beta on both Android and iOS and WhatsApp web version. admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) from Science & Technology - SUCH TV https://i...

Pakistan has reported 22 deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 1,510,986. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 30,218 on Wednesday. According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) 765 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Punjab remains the worst-hit province in terms of deaths followed by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Till now 13,504 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Punjab, 8,073 in Sindh, 6,274 in KP, 1,014 in Islamabad, 788 in Azad Kashmir, 375 in Balochistan and 190 in GB. from Health - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/KD4wq2O https://ift.tt/8d9aS4i admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) https://ift.tt/KD4wq2O