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Wipro's Q1FY24 numbers showed a drop in performance from the prior quarter, and the company's difficult times may not get any easier anytime soon as it expects modest revenue growth in its IT services business for the next September quarter. In the period of the quarter ended June 30, 2023 (Q1FY24), the company fell short of street estimates. The IT behemoth reported a consolidated net profit (attributed to owners) of ₹2,870.1 crore in the first quarter, up 11.95% from ₹2,563.6 crore in the corresponding period last year.

ANI, PM Modi will become the first Indian PM to receive this honour. The Legion of Honour, established by Napoleon Bonaparte, consists of five degrees, with the Prime Minister being awarded the highest, the Grand Cross. The ribbon is red, and the badge features a five-armed Maltese asterisk on an oak and laurel wreath.

Alex Mashinsky, founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, pleaded not guilty Thursday to U.S. fraud charges that he misled customers and artificially inflated the value of his company's propriety crypto token. Three federal regulatory agencies also sued Mashinsky and Celsius in connection with the case.

Coinbase's legal team argued in a recent legal filing that a recent U.S. Supreme Court judgment on student debt cancellation supports their fight against SEC charges of operating an unregistered securities venue. 

Congressman Rep. Tim Burchett from Tennessee has issued a concerning statement about classified UFO footage that he claimed to have witnessed. Burchett said that the UFO footage hasn't been made public. During an appearance on the «Event Horizon» podcast, Burchett, who serves on the House Oversight Committee, expressed his speculation that extraterrestrial life forms might possess technology beyond humanity's capabilities to handle, as per a FOX report. The House Oversight Committee had previously conducted hearings regarding potential threats posed by unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the government's term for UFOs. Burchett's remarks followed the emergence of whistleblower David Grusch, a respected Air Force veteran, who made claims about a secret UFO retrieval program operated by the government. In response to Grusch's unverified assertions, the House Oversight Committee is planning a hearing to discuss the matter. Rep. Burchett, along with fellow Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, will lead the committee's investigation into these claims. The Department of Defense spokesperson, Susan Gough, previously stated in an email to Fox News Digital on June 6 that there is no substantiated information to support these claims. Regarding UFO investigations, the Pentagon houses the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a specialized department responsible for examining UFOs. Simultaneously, NASA is also conducting its own investigation into UFOs, operating independently but in parallel with AARO. Both NASA and AARO are expected to release separate reports on their findings during the upcoming summer.

Aware Super has made its first data-centre play, cutting a $US500 million ($746 million) cheque to buy a stake in Switch after it was taken private by IFM Investors and NYSE-listed DigitalBridge for $US11 billion in December.

Bitcoin, currently trading at $30,500, experienced a slight decline of 1.4% within the past 24 hours. 

US Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo was among a group of senior US officials whose emails were hacked earlier this year by a group Microsoft says is based in China, according to a person briefed on the matter, as fallout from the digital theft continues to spread. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made clear to China's top diplomat Wang Yi in a meeting in Jakarta on Thursday that any action that targets the U.S. government, U.S.

Amit Shah on Thursday said some anti-social elements and global forces are using technology to cause economic and social harm to citizens and governments, as he urged G20 member countries to rise above conventional boundaries and share information in real time to check all crimes in cyberspace. «The G20 has so far focused on digital transformation and data flow from an economic perspective, but now it is important to understand the aspects of crime and security, and find a solution,» he said.

Coinbase’s self-custody wallet – one of the most popular tools for personally safeguarding one’s crypto holdings – will soon function as a simultaneous encrypted messaging service, the company revealed on Wednesday. 

Japan with a vibrant crypto scent — but Japan is one of the many countries that took a proactive approach towards fostering Web3 after realizing its potential worldwide. In order to retain its talent at home and create a better infrastructure for adoption of virtual digital assets, Japan has undertaken a number of regulatory steps. Amid the global turmoil caused by the volatile crypto ecosystem and its consequential effects on users, Japan has proactively introduced preemptive measures to tackle these challenges and maintain a competitive edge. From the very beginning, it supported builders and creators in Web3 suggesting that the country is enthusiastic about the growing ecosystem and it was not just due to a vast user base. It has been tweaking regulations on a rolling basis to address challenges faced by users or other stakeholders and working towards the best interest for all parties with a dedicated ‘resolution team’. Its progressive attitude towards integration of blockchain is what has made it stand apart. From government backed Metaverse offices, to corporates like Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Rakuten foraying in the space, Japan’s efforts reflect the concentrated approach at winning the Web3 revolution after the missed opportunity in Web2.

Alex Mashinsky, the former chief executive of Celsius Network Ltd., was accused by prosecutors of orchestrating a years-long scheme to mislead customers about the financial health of his failing crypto lender and manipulate cryptocurrency prices for his own profits. 

Delhi services for the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning next week. A bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat listed 21 bills for the Monsoon Session, including a draft legislation to check film piracy, introduce age-based categories for censor certification and to set up the National Research Foundation.

Marico expects its gross margins to improve by 200-250 bps in FY24, helped by cooling commodity inflation and portfolio mix normalising favourably. The company expects a «volume-led growth» in the domestic market and gains in market share by most of its products and increase spending in advertising & promotion (A&P), said Marico in its latest annual report. «On the domestic business, we will drive volume-led growth and market share gains across our portfolios, aided by distribution expansion, aggressive cost controls and adequate investment in market development and brand building,» said Marico, which owns Saffola, Parachute, Hair & Care, among other brands.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether OpenAI’s ChatGPT has harmed people by publishing false information about them, posing a potential legal threat to the popular app that can generate eerily human-like content using artificial intelligence. In a civil subpoena to the company made public Thursday, the FTC says its investigation of ChatGPT focuses on whether OpenAI has “engaged in unfair or deceptive practices relating to risks of harm to consumers, including reputational harm." One question asks the company to “describe in detail the extent to which you have taken steps to address or mitigate risks that your large language model products could generate statements about real individuals that are false, misleading or disparaging." The new FTC investigation under Chair Lina Khan marks a significant escalation of the federal government’s role in policing the emerging technology.

Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, was arrested and charged with fraud, a US prosecutor in New York said Thursday morning, as three federal regulatory agencies sued him and his company. Mashinsky, 57, was charged with seven criminal counts — including securities fraud, commodities fraud and wire fraud — while Celsius' former chief revenue officer, Roni Cohen-Pavon, was charged with four criminal counts, according to the indictment, which was unsealed on Thursday.

When ChatGPT burst on the scene in November 2022, with 100 million users in the first two months, Generative AI went from niche to mainstream. That said, there is still a good deal of confusion about what generative AI is, what it does, and what it all means. In addition, the technology is evolving rapidly.

Investing.com -- The bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network has been fined $4.7 billion and permanently banned from handling consumers' assets by U.S. trade regulators, while three of its former executives were charged with duping into transferring their digital tokens into the platform.

Retail inflation data released by the National Statistical Office this week shows a moderate rise in inflation to 4.81% in June from 4.3% last month. Despite this increase, the rate is within India’s tolerance band. But it is food inflation that is worrying, having climbed to 4.49% from 2.96%.

The union representing film and television actors says no deal has been reached with studios and streaming services and its leadership will vote on whether to strike later Thursday

Through the inclusion of Devtron’s Kubernetes native platform engineering suite, Coredge customers now have the added ability to deploy, manage, and scale their GitOps process with minimal effort. Additionally, for the customers who are just beginning their cloud-native journey, this partnership paves the way for applications onboarding, migration to Kubernetes or managing both cluster and application lifecycle through developer self-serve and a very efficient DevOps engine overall. Arif Khan, Founder at Coredge said, “Our deeper partnership with a cloud-native product like Devtron significantly improves Coredge’s telco cloud, edge and sovereign cloud offerings wherein enterprise customers can totally navigate the complexity of multi-cloud/cluster, manage the full infrastructure and at the same time provide a single pane of glass for developers to a golden paved path for self-serve and overall resource optimization." “I am thrilled about our partnership with Coredge.