Twitter announces bug bounty program to find bias in AI algorithms

Image Credit: pixabay.com Microblogging giant Twitter has announced a bug bounty program aimed at finding algorithm biases in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The company is offering up to $ 3,500 worth of rewards to identify biases in image cropping algorithms, an initiative announced by Twitter in May. “We were inspired by how the research and …

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises over $200 million from Google Ventures, others

Image Credit: usnews.com Co-founded by Musk in 2016, San Francisco-based Neuralink will use the funds to take its first product, N1 Link, to the market, and for research and development. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup, Neuralink, has raised $205 million in a funding round led by Dubai-based venture capital firm Vy Capital, with participation …

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Apple is asking a Chinese leaker to reveal his sources in legal notice

Recently, it was reported that Apple had activated several in-house and external strategies to curtail the embarrassing leaks of its unreleased products. While the Cupertino-based company has secured convictions for some of its employees who accessed and divulged unauthorized information, it has also put several security protocols to cut to zero the leak of its …

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Government Asks iPhone, iPad Users to Update Their Devices Immediately in India: Here’s Why

Image Credit: pixabay.com The government’s official IT security organisation CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) has asked Apple users to urgently update their iPhone and iPad units to the latest versions. iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1 were released earlier this week with critical bug fixes. The updates fix a memory corruption zero-day vulnerability that the …

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Google updates its Play Store policies, bans “sugar daddy” apps

Google has gone on the offensive against apps that offer “compensated sexual relationships” Google has updated its Play Store policies, specifically referring to inappropriate content, widening it to include “Sugar Daddy” apps. “Sugar Daddy” is a term commonly associated with older men who pay younger women for sexual favours. Unlike prostitution, these payments aren’t a …

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Microsoft Releases First Windows 11 Beta

Image Credit: pcmag.com Microsoft releases the first build of Windows 11 to the Windows Insider Program’s Beta Channel. The next generation of Windows moves closer to a public debut today with the release of Windows 11 Preview Build 22000.100 to Windows Insider Beta Channel members. Microsoft divides the Windows Insider Program into three channels: the …

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Apple App Store in India enables payments via UPI, net banking, and RuPay Cards

Image Credit: pinkvilla.com Apple has finally started accepting payments via UPI, net banking, and RuPay cards on the App Store and iTunes in India. Earlier, the Apple App Store was only allowed payments in the country via debit cards and credit cards. However, now the users can use their Unified Payments Interface ID, RuPay cards, …

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You Can Now Do Group Video Calls on Telegram With Up to 1,000 Viewers

Image Credit: makeuseof.com The latest Telegram update also brings higher resolution video messages, screen sharing with system sounds, more. Telegram is getting a big new update that bumps the viewers for group video calls to 1000, allows one to record video messages in higher quality resolution, and more. Telegram first added group video calls support …

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