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Up to 50m Facebook accounts attacked
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Facebook says almost 50 million of its users were left exposed by a security flaw.
The company said attackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in a feature known as “View As” to gain control of people's accounts.…
Google turns 20, celebrates with doodle
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Search giant Google on Thursday created a special doodle to celebrate its 20th birthday.
The doodle, comprising a 1.37 minute long video, shows Google's journey from the start till 2018, and also thanked users for…
Microsoft, Amazon, Google join fight to prevent famine
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Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organizations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative…
China shuts thousands of websites in clean-up campaign
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China has shut down more than 4,000 websites and online accounts in a three-month campaign against “harmful” online information, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, citing the country’s illegal…
Twitter warns direct messages were exposed
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Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year.
The software “bug”, which has since been fixed, involved direct messages between…
Tradeshi-New Horizons team up to reduce unemployment in Bangladesh
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Tradeshi Pty Ltd, Alibaba Channel Partner in Bangladesh, has teamed up with the Bangladesh wing of New Horizons CLC to strengthen the employability of ICT jobseekers.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was…
Facebook accused of job ad gender discrimination
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Van driving, roofing, police work - all jobs for men. At least, that’s what a cluster of job ads placed on Facebook seemed to suggest.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday submitted a complaint to…
Instagram adds a shopping tab to the Explore page
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Ahead of the launch of a standalone shopping app, Instagram is bringing more commerce to the flagship. The company said today that it will add a shopping tab to the Explore page, allowing you to thumb through a…
World Economic Forum on ASEAN
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With its recent increase in adoption rate, innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) technology are looking to have a big impact on the workforce across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over the next…
ICESat: Space laser to get unprecedented view of Earth’s ice
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The American space agency is about to put a laser in orbit to measure the condition of Earth's ice cover.
The satellite mission, called ICESat-2, should provide more precise information on how these frozen surfaces…