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The dark web is a popular marketplace for illicit services, allowing cybercriminals to benefit from its encryption and anonymous features.

Most damaging cybercrime services are cheap on the dark web, study finds

Sowmya Ramasubramanian

Ransomware, the most widely used cyberattacks, cost as little as $66 per kit, while hiring a hacker can be as cheap as $250.

Jung Jong-chae, a lawyer specialising in antitrust matters, said Apple had more to lose than Google from the Korean regulation.

South Korea targets Apple over new app store regulation

Pinterest Co-founder Evan Sharp

Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp joins Jony Ive's design firm

Reuters He will transition into an advisory role and continue to serve as a board member, the company said in a blogpost.

Advertisers are likely to see an impact to campaign planning estimates and performance reporting.

Facebook to change how users are counted in its ad metrics

Sowmya Ramasubramanian Facebook added the change is to be consistent with “evolving advertising, privacy and regulatory environments”

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Google Maps will display the most fuel-efficient route now along with the fastest route to reach the destination

Google Maps goes green with its new routing feature

Abhishek Chatterjee Vehicles on the road account for over 75% of transportation carbon dioxide emissions and are one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gases worldwide, according to the International Energy Agency.

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Government sector most targeted by ransomware in second quarter this year

Aditya Saroha McAfee said there was a 64% increase in publicly reported cyber incidents targeting the public sector during the second quarter of 2021, followed by the Entertainment sector with a 60% increase.

Some smartphone makers are now saying they only receive 70% of the requests.

Smartphone shipment forecast for 2021 lowered due to chip shortage, Counterpoint says

Sowmya Ramasubramanian Computer chips that form an essential part of all electronics, have been in short supply since the last quarter of 2020

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Most damaging cybercrime services are cheap on the dark web, study finds

Big Tech to face another bipartisan U.S. antitrust bill

Bitcoin tops $60,000, nears record high, on growing U.S. ETF hopes

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South Korea targets Apple over new app store regulation

Facebook to change rules on attacking public figures on its platforms

Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp joins Jony Ive's design firm

He will transition into an advisory role and continue to serve as a board member, the company said in a blogpost.

U.S. Senator Warren urges Amazon breakup, retailers want probe after Reuters story

The report reviewing thousands of internal Amazon documents, found that the U.S.company ran a systematic campaign of creating knock offs and manipulating search results to boost its own private brands in India

Facebook, Microsoft, Google apps silently collect Android user data, study says

The researchers also noted there may be an ecosystem where the data collected from a handset could be shared between the different companies.

Binance to halt Chinese yuan trading amid Beijing's crypto crackdown

Binance's origins lie in China, though it emphasised in Wednesday's statement that it withdrew from mainland China in 2017, the time of a previous regulatory crackdown.

Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show

This is the second in a series of stories based on internal Amazon documents that provide a rare, unvarnished look, in the company's own words, into business practices that it has denied for years.

Netflix sued in South Korea after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'

Netflix has appealed against the ruling, court records showed, with fresh proceedings to start in late December.

Facebook to change how users are counted in its ad metrics

Facebook added the change is to be consistent with “evolving advertising, privacy and regulatory environments”

Microsoft says it mitigated one of the largest DDoS attacks

In August, an Azure customer in Europe was targeted with a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, which was 140% higher than any network-volumetric event earlier detected on Azure, the software firm said.

Twitter debuts new ad features, revamped algorithm ahead of e-commerce push

The new features come as Twitter is pushing to grow its performance advertising business, a strategy that aims to quickly generate sales, and constituted just 15% of Twitter’s business last year.

EV battery maker CATL plans $5-billion China recycling facility

CATL unit will form a joint venture with Hubei Yihua Chemical Industry Co Ltd to recycle used EV batteries for chemicals such as cobalt and lithium, the company said in a filing.

Coding platform GitLab lifts IPO pricing range, eyes nearly $10 bln valuation

Goldman Sachs & Co, J.P. Morgan and BofA Securities are the lead underwriters for the offering.

Crypto trading thrives in Nigeria despite official disapproval

Nigerians are turning to crypto for business, to protect their savings as the naira loses value, and to send payments abroad because it is often hard to obtain U.S. dollars, experts and users told Reuters.

Instagram testing feature to notify users of outage or issue inside app

The company is also planning to roll out a feature that will help making it easier for people to know whether their account is at risk of being disabled.

Facebook to curb sale of Amazon rainforest land on Marketplace

This comes after BBC unveiled in February that illegal listings of parts of the Amazon rainforest were being sold on the platform.

Long-banned FaceTime calls apparently working in UAE

There have been times in the past when such programmes temporarily work in the UAE before becoming disrupted due to changes in internet filtering.

Facebook will try to ‘nudge’ teens away from harmful content

U.S. senators last week grilled Facebook on its plans to better protect young users on its apps, drawing on leaked internal research that showed the social media giant was aware of how its Instagram app damaged the mental health of youth.

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Ms. Haugen secretly copied a trove of internal Facebook documents before leaving the company.

EU questions Microsoft rivals over Teams integration in Office

Microsoft introduced Teams in early 2017 to compete with Slack and others in the fast-growing workplace collaboration market.

Facebook apologises for second outage in a week, services back up

The outage on Monday was the largest that web monitoring group Downdetector had ever seen and blocked access to the apps for billions of users, leading to a surge in usage of rival social media and messaging apps.

Facebook rolls out new Page experience for users in India

Some of the new features include an intuitive layout with a crisper look and feel, making it easy to navigate between a personal profile and a public Page.

Google Maps goes green with its new routing feature

Vehicles on the road account for over 75% of transportation carbon dioxide emissions and are one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gases worldwide, according to the International Energy Agency.

Twitter tests prompts to warn users when conversations get heated

For instance, it might say, “conversations like this can be intense”, or “let’s look out for each other” when a user replies to an intense conversation.

Facebook blames outage on error during maintenance

It triggered a second problem making things worse

Downloads of travel and navigation apps surge, report says

Travel and navigation apps crossed a billion downloads between May and August, a 20% jump compared to the same period last year, according to analytics firm App Annie.

Google to turn on two-step verification for 150 million users

The tech giant had announced in May that it would enrol customers into two-step verification if their accounts were appropriately configured.

Government sector most targeted by ransomware in second quarter this year

McAfee said there was a 64% increase in publicly reported cyber incidents targeting the public sector during the second quarter of 2021, followed by the Entertainment sector with a 60% increase.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp start reconnecting after nearly 6-hour outage

Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around 9:30 pm IST

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by widespread outage

The outage impacted potentially tens of millions of users

Google to upgrade Lens with new search option

The technology company will also provide a new button in the Google app for iOS users that will enable them to search for all the images on a page using Google Lens.

Smartphone shipment forecast for 2021 lowered due to chip shortage, Counterpoint says

Computer chips that form an essential part of all electronics, have been in short supply since the last quarter of 2020

Karnataka’s proposed online gaming ban a setback to the gaming industry, experts say

India is the fourth largest online gaming market in the world, and gamers in India are expected to grow from 360 million in 2020 to 510 million in 2022. The move is likely to cause a setback in the $1 billion gaming industry.

Celebrity Instagram content linked to negative feelings, Facebook researchers say

The findings are notable given that Instagram helped pioneer the rise of social media influencers and made efforts to recruit celebrities to the app in its early days.

Clubhouse rolls out conversation replay and clip-sharing to drive growth

The app will also roll out an improved search function to help people find live and scheduled audio rooms, users and clubs oriented around certain interests, the company said.

Zoom, Five9 mutually agree to terminate nearly $15 billion all-stock deal

The development comes after proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services earlier this month recommended Five9 shareholders vote against the deal, citing growth concerns.

China drafts new data measures, defines "core data"

China's data security law builds on the 2017 cybersecurity law, which marked the first major set of rules governing the storage and transfer of data of Chinese origin.

Twitch rolls out verification features for user safety

The world’s largest livestreaming platform noted both creators and moderators can set verification requirements for channels

China's electric carmakers make their move on Europe

As Chinese carmakers gear up to enter Europe, they are trying out different business models, from relying on importers, low-cost retail options or building up more traditional dealerships.

YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content

Examples of content that won’t be allowed on YouTube include claims that the flu vaccine causes infertility and that the MMR shot, which protects against measles, mumps, and rubella, can cause autism.

Under criticism, Facebook to highlight own positive research on Instagram and teens

Facebook has been under fire for the past week after the Wall Street Journal reported internal documents showed that the social media company was aware that Instagram harmed the mental health of young users.

Swiss markets watchdog approves first crypto assets fund

FINMA said it had tied the approval to specific requirements, including that the fund may invest only in established assets with a sufficiently large trading volume.

Samsung fined $47 mln for price fixing in Netherlands

Samsung also reached out to retailers if their competitors complained about TVs being sold too cheap, documents obtained by the regulator showed.

China says to set governance rules for algorithms over next three years

CAC also said it would establish professional evaluation teams to deeply analyze the mechanism of the algorithm and algorithms should become "fair and transparent".

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