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Logitech lays off 300 employees as computer accessories sales drop
In a major global reorganisation, the maker of computer accessories has decided to cut about 300 jobs, reports People Matters. According to Logitech President and CEO Bracken Darrell, the slump in the business was due to challenging global broader macroeconomic environment and "lower enterprise and consumer spending".
Leading job portal Indeed lays off 2,200 employees, CEO 'heartbroken'
An 'heartbroken' Indeed CEO Chris Hyams announced that job cuts come from nearly every team, function, level and region at Indeed and Indeed Flex. We anticipate we will be letting approximately 2,200 people go. This is roughly 15 per cent of our team. The specific decisions on who and where to cut were extremely difficult.
US serves notice to Coinbase for allegedly breaking securities laws
The SEC move indicates there could be some kind of enforcement action against Coinbase after the investigation is completed. The SEC gave Coinbase a "Wells notice" regarding an undefined portion of its listed digital assets, staking service Coinbase Earn, Coinbase Prime, and Coinbase Wallet after a cursory investigation.
US SEC sues 8 celebrities, including Lindsay Lohan, for crypto fraud
The Commission announced charges against Sun and three of his wholly-owned companies, Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., and Rainberry Inc. (formerly BitTorrent), for the unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT).
8 in 10 Indian professionals heading back to office by choice: Report
Workers are generally more receptive to working in the office, with 86 per cent of Indians saying they feel positive about it compared to a year ago, according to research conducted by Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. Another trend being embraced in the office is that of desk-bombing. The research revealed that most workers like it when a co-worker shows up unannounced at their desk to have a chat.
WhatsApp rolling out limit polls to only one choice feature on Android
According to WABetaInfo, this feature will allow users to select only one option which they feel most strongly about. The report also said that this feature is helpful as it will make the poll results more accurate as users are limited to one choice. Moreover, this is even useful in cases where only one answer is required.
Opera adds ChatGPT, AI summarization features to its browser
These new tools are available in early access across all desktop platforms, according to the company. AI Prompts, a native feature in the Opera Browser, will help users shorten a long confusing text or explain it to them, whether it's a paragraph, a whole article, or even a website.
PM Modi unveils 6G test bed, industry hails move
Inaugurating the new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) area office and innovation centre during a programme at Vigyan Bhawan here, he said that the 6G R&D test bed will help faster adoption of the new technology in the country. The government said that the Bharat 6G vision document and 6G test bed will provide an enabling environment for innovation, capacity building, and faster technology adoption in the country.
Chinese app TikTok still has troves of personal data of Indians: Report
According to a report in Forbes, the data of Indian users "remain widely accessible to employees at the company and its Beijing-based parent ByteDance". Before the ban, TikTok had about 150 million monthly active users in the country. "I don't think Indians are aware of how much of their data is exposed to China right now, even with the ban in place," a current TikTok employee told Forbes.
Microsoft introduces 'Bing Image Creator' powered by OpenAI's DALL-E
Bing Image Creator integrated into Bing chat has started to roll out to Bing preview users, also it is available in Microsoft Edge from the Image Creator icon in the sidebar for both desktop and mobile users around the world in English. Moreover, the company said that it will soon integrate Image Creator into Edge from the new Bing button.
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