The Meghalaya High Court has ordered surprise checks on Army vehicles in the wake of allegations that drugs are sometimes transported in military trucks, which are generally immune from such inspections. Jump To What the court said? Intelligence reports What the court said? The order was passed by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjib …
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With the number of fresh Covid-19 cases being reported in the national capital reducing day by day, Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) decided to do away with the fine for not wearing face masks in public places, sources said as quoted in a Times of India report. The authority, however, is set to issue an advisory asking people to continue …
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Two teenagers have been charged following an investigation into the Lapsus$ hacking group, which has claimed responsibility for data hacks of Samsung and Nvidia as well as breaches at Microsoft and Okta. The teens, ages 16 and 17, face multiple charges related to cybercrimes and are in police custody, the City of London Police said Friday. Last week, UK police …
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Fuel prices including that of petrol and diesel continues to be on the rise in the country. Adding to the woes of the people, now the prices of 19 kg commercial LPG have been increased by Rs 250 per cylinder effective from Friday. Agencies Not only that, even jet fuel prices were hiked by 2 per cent – the seventh …
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Google users will soon see search results giving them two new ways to identify trustworthy news sources. First, a “highly cited” label will alert users to articles that have been cited in other news stories. These highly cited stories are often early, authoritative and local stories that provide necessary context, Google said in a blog post Thursday. The label will appear in the …
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Jack Dongarra, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, won the 2021 Turing Award for software that’s unlocked the power of the world’s biggest computers. Many earlier recipients boosted supercomputers indirectly, but Dongarra has specialized in code that speeds up scientific calculations and gets it to run on machines with thousands of processors. “These contributions laid a framework …
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Apple and Facebook parent company Meta may have handed over private customer information including addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses last year in response to hackers who presented forged legal documents, a report says. The data was given to hackers pretending to be law enforcement, who used faked emergency data requests in mid-2021, Bloomberg reported Wednesday citing three unnamed sources. …
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Three separate “coordinated” phishing attempts targeted elected officials across at least nine states in October, the FBI said Tuesday. The first event came on Oct. 5 when unidentified attackers used two email addresses, one from the compromised account of a government official, in an attempt to collect the login credentials of elected officials. Less than two weeks later, two similar …
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Two frustrating years for gamers hot to get GPUs to make their rigs sing may be coming to an end. Websites such as Best Buy, Overclockers and Micro Center are showing the latest Nvidia and AMD GPUs in stock, as reported earlier Monday by PC Gamer. This means that as long as stock is available for buyers near their local stores, they …
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A popular Indian restaurant, Lanterns, in Bahrain’s Adliya has been shut down after a veiled woman was barred from entering its premises. A viral video showed one of the staff members blocking a veiled woman from entering the facility, NewsofBahrain reported. The report noted that Bahrain Tourism and Exhibition Authority (BTEA) has launched a probe into the issue. The Lanterns …
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