Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) hit the number one slot among free apps on Apple’s App Store.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab has shown pink slips to about 530 people, or 8 percent of its workforce, due to lack of funds, the agency said, amid layoffs in Big Tech companies globally.

WhatsApp is reportedly preparing to allow third-party messaging apps on its platform, ahead of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will come into force in March.

SpaceX is being investigated in the US for discrimination and sexual harassment, the media reported.

Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who recently fought an uphill battle against her deepfake porn images, has threatened legal action against Jack Sweeney, a college student who tracks celebrity jets and faced Elon Musk’s ire in the past.

Meta has worked with the US National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to expand the 'Take It Down' program to more countries and languages to help millions of teens combat sextortion.

The subscription-based streaming service Disney Plus is finally implementing measures to prevent US subscribers from sharing their passwords with non-paying users.

OpenAI has announced a significant enhancement to the provenance of images generated through ChatGPT on the web and their API featuring the DALL·E 3 model. Moving forward, these images will include C2PA metadata, providing users with valuable insights into their origin and authenticity.

Spotify on Tuesday said it now has 236 million premium subscribers, a 4 percent increase over the last quarter.

The Dutch owner of Yandex which is touted as “Russia's Google” has announced to divest its Russia-based businesses for $5.2 billion.

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, on Monday announced to lay off approximately 10 percent of its global full-time employees.

Mark Zuckerberg is now the fourth richest person in the world following a surge in Meta’s share price that has increased his net worth more than any other individual this year, a report said.

Adobe’s Firefly AI, the text-to-image tool behind features like Photoshop’s generative fill, will be available on the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro mixed reality (MR) headset as a native app, alongside the company’s popular Lightroom photo-editing software, the company said on Monday.

A deepfake video conference call where a digitally recreated avatar of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) ordered money transfers has cost a multinational company $25.6 million, in the first-such scam.

WhatsApp is reportedly developing a feature that will allow users to select their favourite contacts for a more convenient call placement on iOS.

South Korea's Hyundai Motor and its smaller affiliate Kia on Sunday said their combined electric vehicle sales exceeded 1.5 million units as of December, 12 years after Hyundai debuted its first EV model.