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Last week, the White House issued an executive order for command and control of artificial intelligence, strangely invoking the Defense Production Act. President Biden apparently got nervous after watching the latest “Mission: Impossible" movie. Really.

increasingly common sight in America. According to a recent survey by researchers at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, about a quarter of police departments now use them. Even more surprising is where the technology is coming from.

Mark Zuckerberg's journey towards a potential MMA career seems to have hit a roadblock after the Meta CEO recently revealed that he had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during a sparring session. The tech billionaire shared the news of his injury on Instagram by sharing a picture a series of his photos from the hospital.

Regulating artificial intelligence (AI) has joined outer space as the latest battleground for dominance among the world’s advanced nations. Eagerness to dominate is no guarantee of clarity, though. The larger picture on what is to be done, and how, remains unclear even after the recent British summit on AI – which saw participation from all major AI powers, including the US and China – the Biden administration’s executive order on AI safety, and the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act.

Westpac will ramp up investment spending to $2 billion a year as it finally attempts to rebuild its spaghetti-like technology platforms, and make up for 15 years of underinvestment since buying St George in 2008.

LTIMindtree Ltd. fell 0.25 per cent to Rs 5119.4 in Monday's session as of 11:52AM (IST) even as the equity benchmark Sensex traded 367.2 points higher at 64730.98. Earlier in the day, the stock witnessed a gap up start to the session.

India's tech landscape, the Indian government has ordered all smartphone companies to start supporting NavIC, India's navigation satellite system. The announcement, made in September 2023, makes it mandatory for 5G smartphones to support NavIC, short for Navigation with Indian Constellation, by 1 January 2025, and other phones by December 2025. The new rule comes after Apple's groundbreaking decision to incorporate NavIC support in some of its latest iPhone 15 models.

MPs Mahua Moitra, Shashi Tharoor and Asaduddin Owaisi, received a message from Apple. It read: “State-sponsored attackers may be targeting your iPhone." Besides them, two editors also received the message. Siddharth Varadarajan, one of them, had caused a stir in Indian politics in July 2021 when he revealed the deployment of Pegasus spyware on mobile phones and other devices.

Somanath Saturday said he had decided to withdraw the publication of his autobiography ‘Nilavu Kudicha Simhangal" following a report in the Malayala Manorama suggesting that his immediate predecessor K. Sivan may have hindered key promotions that he (Somanath) thought were due, reported The Hindu. “There has been some misinterpretation.

Aadhaar, and passport information are for sale online. The company said that its HUNTER (HUMINT) unit investigators who established contact with the threat actor, learned that they were willing to sell the entire Aadhaar and Indian passport database for $80,000.

Now, the buzzword is mixed reality (MR) and everyone seems to want a piece of the MR pie. Meta has been at it — with little success — with its Quest headsets. Apple threw its hat in the ring with the $3,500 'Vision Pro' (which will be available later this year). Snap has some sort of mixed reality glasses and even Amazon has 'Echo Frames' that could tap into the space in future.

IPOs Next Week: The primary market witnessed some major listings in both main board and small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) segments last month, which kept investors engaged with subscriptions and listings. Moving on, November too sees strong market buzz - similarly packed with new listings and initial public offering (IPO) issues, that are available for subscription. In the primary market last week, mainboard IPO of Cello World, Honasa Consumer and ESAF Small Finance Bank opened to raise ₹4,064 crore.

To safeguard against potential trickery, the group advises proactively blocking these phone numbers. These numbers are frequently employed in deceptive calls that may falsely claim your package is delayed or your bank card is frozen, as per the report in USA Today. Through the analysis of more than 157,000 suspicious phone calls spanning two years, the software company has determined that these specific digit combinations are indicative of fraudulent activities. These numbers represent only a fraction of the 150,000+ suspicious phone numbers that users have reported over recent years. The report also features an interactive map of the United States, illustrating the most prevalent area codes connected to fraudulent calls in each state. These numbers are — (202) 221-7923, (469) 709-7630, (805) 637-7243, (878) 877-1402, (865) 630-4266, (863) 532-7969, (858) 605-9622, (312) 339-1227, (904) 495-2559, (917) 540-7996, (301) 307-4601, (347) 437-1689.

Dividend Stocks: Shares of several companies will trade ex-dividend in the coming week including Dabur India, Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Petronet LNG, RITES, Indian Railway Finance Corp (IRFC), among others will trade ex-dividend in the coming week, starting from Monday, November 6. The ex-dividend date is the day on which the equity share price adjusts to reflect the next dividend payout. It is the day the stock becomes ex-dividend, which means it does not carry the value of its next dividend payment from that day forward.

will now take over Sephora's 26 stores in India from Arvind Fashions. The transaction has been done at enterprise value of ₹216 crore toward the sale of the entire equity stake and repayment of loans. The purchase consideration the toward sale of entire equity stake is ₹99.02 crore.

cyber scam, etc). Individuals might be the victim of financial fraud or identity theft if cyber criminals programmed the bots to operate in such a way. Cyber Swachhta Kendra (CSK) is a free botnet cleaning and malware analysis system that is operated by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). CERT-In works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). CERT-In under the CSK program collaborated with various cyber security companies to develop a free bot removal tool. This bot removal tool is given to every Indian citizen at no cost and can help detect and clean bot infection in Windows laptops/desktops and Android devices. How will this tool help you? Answering this, CERT-In says on their website: «Its goal is to create a secure cyberspace by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users to prevent further infections.»

OpenAI is anticipated to unveil improvements to its AI models during its inaugural developer conference on Monday, aiming to make them more cost-effective while enhancing their capabilities, reported Reuters. Reportedly, the conference demonstrates OpenAI's aspiration to evolve from a popular consumer attraction into a successful developer platform provider. CEO Sam Altman has hinted at exciting prospects for attendees, promising "some great new stuff." Taking place in a remote area close to San Francisco's City Hall, the one-day event is drawing in hundreds of developers globally.

OpenAI is expected to announce product enhancements that will make its AI models cheaper, with more functionality, in its first-ever developer conference on Monday. The conference signals OpenAI's ambition to expand beyond a consumer sensation to becoming a provider of a hit developer platform, and CEO Sam Altman has teased attendees with the promise of «some great new stuff.»

Base, Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network, has announced the beginning of Base Bootcamp, an eight-week, cohort-based program with the goal of converting experienced software engineers into smart contract developers. Base Bootcamp will focus on teaching participants how to build smart contracts. The blockchain sector is facing a large talent deficit, with less than 30,000 onchain developers compared to almost 30 million conventional software professionals. This endeavor comes at a time when the blockchain industry is facing a substantial talent shortage.

Microsoft's Chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella, recently penned his annual letter, unveiling the technology behemoth's vision to drive a new era dominated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The detailed discourse, shared on October 20, 2023, via LinkedIn, articulates the company's strategy to intertwine AI across all its customer-centric products and the layers of its technology stacks. This narrative underscores the monumental role AI is anticipated to play in reshaping the software landscape and business operations, not just within Microsoft but across the globe.

With just two months left to go in 2023, the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite has been the top performer of the major U.S. indexes by a wide margin thus far, soaring 27% year-to-date.