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Elon Musk subpoenas ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey amid legal battle
The microblogging platform and Musk are preparing for their October 17 trial date at the Delaware Court of Chancery to argue over his attempt to break their acquisition agreement, reports The Verge. Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO for the second time last November and handed control of the company he helped create to Parag Agrawal. He is running Square and Block and, reportedly, egging on Musk's attempt to buy Twitter in private messages. As per the report, it is tough to say what information Dorsey has that Musk couldn't obtain by just texting him.
Big Tech to testify on anti-competitive practices before govt panel on Tue
According to official sources, the panel, which is headed by BJP MP and former Union minister Jayant Sinha, will hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the matter, which has garnered a lot of attention in recent times. The committee has also summoned representatives of e-commerce entities like Flipkart and even cab and hotel aggregators like Ola and Oyo, respectively, to discuss the matter.
73% of Indians don't want non-personal data to be part of new PDP Bill
As the government withdrew the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 73 per cent of Indians don't want non-personal data to come under the purview of the new bill, a new report showed on Monday. While 45 per cent of Indians think that data localisation should be flexible, 55 per cent say that data transfer regulations should be flexible, according to the report by data privacy and cybersecurity services provider Tsaaro.
Online searches for 5G smartphones up 2 times in India
According to platform sales trends, the demand for 5G smartphones in the Rs 10,000-15,000 has seen nearly a four times growth in the first half of 2022 as against the same period last year. Among the top five states where customers are looking for 5G smartphones are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
Lazarus hackers targeting Apple Mac users with fake job posts
Researchers at cyber-security firm ESET posted a screenshot on Twitter that showed fake job listings from leading crypto exchange Coinbase by Lazarus, famous for spreading the WannaCry ransomware globally in 2017.
WhatsApp plans to bring Stories-like feature to chat list for iOS
According to WABetaInfo, the beta version 22.18.0.70 is bringing the ability to view Status updates within the chat list. It has been released to certain beta testers, and therefore, it is still not available to everyone. Using this feature, which is similar to Stories, users can publish pictures and videos that disappear after 24 hours.
Microsoft reveals why playing Janet Jackson's mega-hit song crashes laptops
According to Raymond Chen, Senior Software Engineer, they discovered something bizarre. Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop was not playing the video. "It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used," Chen said.
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra confirmed to feature 200MP main camera: Report
According to ET News, Samsung Electronics' Mobile Experience (MX) division shared confirmed information with major camera partners that it will install a 200MP camera on the Galaxy S23 recently. Samsung Electronics announced the details of the development and the approximate production plan and commissioned some companies to develop 200 million pixel camera parts and they initiated developing the necessary parts.
Twitter to cut annual bonuses for employees to 50% amid downturn
Twitter's chief financial officer Ned Segal told employees that global market conditions would affect the annual bonuses they receive, with the "bonus pool currently at 50 per cent of what it could be if the company met its financial targets," reports The New York Times. The annual bonus figure could fluctuate even further throughout the year based on Twitter's upcoming earnings, according to Segal who wrote an email to Twitter employees on Friday.
Bug blocked Reels users from sharing videos on other platforms: Instagram
Reels, the audio from the clip just disappeared. "It means if you want to export the footage from Reels to use in another app (like TikTok), you have to actually post the Reel first in order to save the sound," The Verge had reported this week. Instagram said it was a bug and that has been fixed. Meanwhile, when creators now make a video on YouTube Shorts, they will not be able to download the video and cross-post it to other apps without a "YouTube watermark".
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