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When Donald Trump takes office as president for a second time, many journalists anticipate a hostile climate toward them and their work

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A few days ago, Signzy, a popular Know Your Customer (KYC) verification service used by India’s top banks and fintech firms, was affected by a cyber attack that may have exposed the sensitive personal information of millions. Our lack of safeguards for data that businesses collect and process is an urgent problem waiting to be addressed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had to reassure some skeptical colleagues that the central bank wouldn’t inadvertently send signals of distress when he led them to start lowering borrowing costs at the end of the summer with a gutsy, larger-than-usual half-point reduction. Now, they are confronting another potential hinge point.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. THERE WAS joy and horror and anguish all at once. Many of the detainees freed from Saidnaya, the most notorious prison in Syria, were husks: skeletal frames, vacant stares.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) shares will remain in focus on Monday after the company announced the acquisition of a 74% equity stake in Navi Mumbai IIA Private Limited (NMIIA) for Rs 1,628.03 crore. The deal, approved by RIL's Board of Directors on December 11, 2024, was completed following consent from the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (CIDCO), which waived its rights of first refusal on December 12, 2024.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India and the UK are expected to restart talks on their proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between April and June, the first quarter of the UK’s fiscal year, two people aware of the matter said. The talks, which aim to resolve outstanding issues, have been ongoing since January 2022 but stalled in May this year after a high-ranking British delegation canceled its visit to New Delhi ahead of the general election in the UK.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In a marketplace where even the simplest code can signal brand identity, low-cost airline IndiGo’s tussle with automaker Mahindra and Mahindra over “6E" poses a fundamental question: when does a combination of letters and numbers stop being generic and become proprietary brand turf? At first glance, the dispute seems unusual. IndiGo, India’s largest airline, uses 6E as its call sign, a unique identifier in aviation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Vani Kola-led Kalaari Capital has returned more than $100 million in exits in the current calendar year. This comes at a time when the backer of unicorn companies like Elastic Run, Dream11 and Upstox, among others, has pumped in around $25 million in more than 10 companies this calendar year, Kola said in an interview with Mint.

Alexander Sorloth (in pic) came off the bench to score with a header late in the second half and give Atletico Madrid a hard-fought 1-0 win over Getafe in LaLiga on Sunday, their 11th consecutive triumph in all competitions. Atletico are now level with Barcelona at the top of the LaLiga standings on 38 points from 17 matches, moving above Real Madrid who are third on 37. Barcelona host lowly Leganes later on Sunday. Atletico, who have won all their games since late October, dominated proceedings throughout and created several opportunities but had to dig deep to break the deadlock, with their winner coming in a collaboration between two substitutes in the 69th minute.

Right now chestnut enthusiasts are cozying up next to their open fires (or toaster ovens) to roast a holiday snack that has long roots in North America

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Sunday said tech worker Atul Subhash’s death by suicide in Bengaluru on December 9 has sparked country-wide discussions about men’s rights. The case of suicide, he said, has opened a new discussion throughout the country centered on men’s rights. “We always talked about women’s rights, but now this particular case has exposed men's rights and how weak the men’s rights system is working,” he told the media in Bengaluru. The Bengaluru Police, the Home Minister said, would also investigate the factors that drove him to the extreme step.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The phones at corporate security firms in America are ringing off the hook. Security chiefs at major organizations are convening calls to trade notes.

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Yasar Guler said on Sunday. He said the new leadership should be given «a chance» and that Turkey was «ready to provide the necessary support if the new administration requests it», in remarks to journalists reported by state news agency Anadolu and other Turkish media outlets. «It is necessary to see what the new administration will do. We think it is necessary to give them a chance,» Guler said of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebel alliance, which is rooted in Al-Qaeda's Syria branch and designated a «terrorist» organisation by many Western governments.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A growing number of India’s ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNIs) are looking to get a residency in a European nation for their children’s education, to retire, or to give their businesses unfettered access to Europe. However, the costs of these residencies have been increasing as European counties look to cash in on the high demand.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In speculative fiction writer China Mieville’s novel The City and The City (2009), a police inspector in the fictional East European city-state of Besźel investigates the murder of a student involved in political turmoil between his nation and its "twin city", Ul Qoma—two separate social, cultural and political entities that exist parallelly, often occupying the same geographical space, but divided by harsh, unbreachable laws that ask residents of both cities to ‘unsee’ the other.

Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed the Congress over the Emergency and said whenever democracy' is discussed, «this very sin» of Congress will be remembered. Speaking in Lok Sabha during the discussion on the 'Glorious Journey of 75 Years of the Constitution of India,' the Prime Minister launched a strong attack on Congress and said «one family of Congress left no stone unturned in hurling a blow to the Constitution» PM Modi said when India was celebrating 25 years of the Constitution, it «was torn apart» and Emergency was imposed.

As per Time, Ibrahim, who had over two decades of experience in tech, noted that the job involved responsibilities that stretched far beyond the typical scope. «It’s such a powerful technology. Am I the right person? And is this the right place?» Ibrahim recalled asking herself during the process. Her decision to join DeepMind was not made lightly. DeepMind, which had already been acquired by Google in 2014, was at the forefront of artificial intelligence research, and the weight of her potential impact on the future of AI weighed heavily on her mind. Her long interview process was a mix of conversations with DeepMind’s leadership team and personal reflection. Ibrahim described it as an essential part of the decision-making process, saying that she needed to have deep conversations with her family about the long-term implications of joining such a transformative field.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Besides Earth itself, Mars is the most-studied planet in the solar system. One reason for the abundance of probes and landers, of course, is that Mars is relatively close.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A colleague said during breakfast one day that he wanted to start working out because he had just turned 40-years-old and had started seeing visible decline in muscle-mass. This is someone who had hardly worked out in the past, so a decline must have felt more jarring than amongst those who do workout.

But this claim does not stack up against mounting scientific evidence. What's more, emotion recognition technology poses a range of legal and societal risks — especially when deployed in the workplace.