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As the world grappled with a significant Microsoft IT outage, questions emerged about the resilience of various technologies, including Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain. This incident prompts intriguing considerations for Bitcoin price predictions.

BloFin, a leading cryptocurrency futures trading exchange, has announced an exciting promotion for new users. Running until August 1st, the promotion offers a chance to win incredible prizes, including a Rolex, AirPods, a MacBook Pro, and more.

Much of the world faced online disarray Friday as a widespread technology outage affected companies and services across industries — grounding flights, knocking banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air

The Treasury Department is warning that state laws that restrict banks from considering environmental, social and governance factors could harm efforts to address money laundering and terrorism financing

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted on Friday of espionage charges in an unusually rapid trial in the country’s highly politicized legal system

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been convicted of espionage charges that his employer and the U.S. vehemently reject

protests by thousands of students in Bangladesh against quotas in government jobs has brought focus to a history of violence in a country born out of a war between India and Pakistan in 1971 in which nearly 3 million people were killed. Its founding father and first prime minister Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was assassinated in 1975 in a military coup which brought in a long period of military rule. Though democracy was restored slowly by 1990, the country of nearly 170 million people has been rocked by sporadic periods of sectarian or political violence in recent years.

Indrani Mukerjea, accused of killing her daughter Sheena Bora in 2012, to travel to Europe but laid down some conditions. The court allowed Indrani Mukerjea to travel once to Europe (Spain and United Kingdom) for ten days between intermittent period for the next three months. During her travel, she has to attend the office of the Indian Embassy or its allied diplomatic mission offices there at least once during her visit and obtain an attendance certificate, said the court. The court also directed Indrani Mukerjea to furnish a security deposit of Rs 2 lakh. Last month, the former media executive filed an application in the court seeking nod for overseas visit, claiming she needs to travel to Europe frequently for work.

Follow Microsoft Outage Live Updates hereIs this a cyberattack? How did the outage happen? Why is Microsoft in news? What is CrowdStike? What did the Indian government say on the IT outage? And why is the "blue screen of death" trending? When will the issue be fixed? And can we call it the “largest" IT outage in history? Here's all you need to know about the global outage on Friday.Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt said in a post on X, "I don't think it's too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history" He was quoted by CNBC as saying, "Ongoing tech disruption is set to be the largest IT outage in history." Meanwhile, " an opinion piece in Sky news.com read, “It's possible we are looking at the largest IT outage in history.""This is not a security incident or cyberattack," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz clarified on Friday. He said there was "a defect found in a single content update for [Microsoft] Windows hosts".

Barack Obama is concerned about the upcoming Presidential Election in November. According to the Washington Post, he has shared his concerns with top members of the Democratic Party that he is worried about the legacy of his former deputy and the future prospects of the party. It has been reported that the former president has spoken to Joe Biden after the first presidential debate and has been in touch with other senior members of the party from the US Congress. There is growing opposition to Biden’s presidential nomination which he is expected to secure at the national convention in August.

Indian students back home on Friday from Bangladesh, where violence has erupted between protesters and security forces. At least 20 people have been killed in the clashes this week — most of them in the capital Dhaka — with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to scatter protesters who also torched vehicles and establishments. The protesters oppose a system of quotas for government jobs. Some mobile internet services were cut off on Thursday and telecom links remained widely disrupted on Friday.

Computer systems failed across the globe on Friday, taking down services at airlines, banks and the London Stock Exchange after a widely used cybersecurity program crashed and Microsoft Corp. separately reported problems with its cloud services. 

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Arunachal Pradesh which poses a threat of a flood-like situation in the state, senior BJP MLA Ninong Ering on Friday urged the government to take up the issue with the Centre. China is building a 60,000 megawatt dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Medog, near the international border. Tsangpo is known as Siang in Arunachal Pradesh and Brahmaputra in Assam. The main channel of this river is the Jamuna, which flows through Bangladesh before joining the Bay of Bengal. Participating in the motion of thanks to the governor's address in the assembly, Ering, a former Union minister said, «We cannot trust our 'neighbour'. You never know what they can do. They can either divert the entire river flow drying up our Siang or release water at once causing unprecedented floods havoc downstream.»

services of airlines, brokerages, financial institutions, and even media houses worldwide, causing significant damage to businesses in terms of data loss, productivity loss, IT downtime, financial loss, and even reputation loss. Even as CrowdStrike, Microsoft, CERT-In, and cybersecurity companies put out advisories, it's fortunately an issue that can be fixed. A server hardware or software issue can cause a Blue Screen error, also known as black screen error or STOP code.

banks whether their customer-facing channels- branches, ATM, mobile banking and net banking — were operating well after technical problem at the US tech giant Microsoft and its vendor American cyber security company Crowdstrike, led to a global tech outage. The banking regulator has made similar enquiries with payment aggregators, they added. The banking regulator has asked banks and payment aggregators to update them on the impact of the outage. Most banks and payment companies told ET that their services were not affected. Speaking to a wire agency, Dinesh Khara indicated that their systems were not affected. «We are all fine,” he told the wire agency.

ONGC Videsh Limited, a schedule «A» Navaratna Central Public Sector Enterprise, has announced the signing of a definitive Sale Purchase Agreement (SPA) to acquire a stake in Azerbaijan's prestigious Offshore Azeri Chirag Gunashli (ACG) oil field from Equinor ASA. According to a press release, the agreement encompasses the acquisition of a 0.615 per cent participating interest (PI) in the ACG field and a 0.737 per cent shareholding in the Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline company through its wholly-owned subsidiary, ONGC BTC Limited. The total investment for these acquisitions is projected to be up to USD 60 million, with the deals expected to be finalized in the forthcoming months.

drone strikes by Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has fortified the defenses surrounding his palace in Valdai, located north of Moscow. Satellite images captured on May 6 reveal at least seven medium-range air defense systems deployed near the extensive forest estate on Lake Valdai's shores, as reported by the US-based think tank, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Prioritizing High-Value Targets According to The Telegraph, the ISW stated, «Ukraine's relentless drone strikes have compelled Moscow's military command to prioritize limited air defense assets to cover what it deems high-value targets.» The satellite images also show Pantsir-S1 air defense units, surface-to-air missiles, and a long-range radar station, operational since the spring when Ukraine intensified attacks on Russian infrastructure.

A new survey from Voya Financial reveals that many Americans wish they had begun saving for retirement earlier.

Paytm on Friday reported a 35% fall in its operational revenue for the quarter ended June at Rs 1,501 crore, down from Rs 2,341 crore a year back. Its net loss more than doubled to Rs 840 crore from around Rs 358 crore a year back.

Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA (CDP), an Italian state-owned bank, and Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest banking group, have completed first digital bond issuance on blockchain. The issuance of the security was carried out via Polygon (MATIC) blockchain.