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Fraudsters hit LinkedIn with recruitment scam wave amid tech layoffs
According to the Financial Times, phony recruitments are being run by scammers pretending to be employers on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. "There's certainly an increase in the sophistication of the attacks and the cleverness," Oscar Rodriguez, LinkedIn's vice president of product management, was quoted as saying in the report.
Samsung to showcase its latest smartphones, laptops at MWC 2023
Through 'immersive and interactive' exhibitions, visitors to the Samsung booth will get a 'first-hand' look at the most recent Samsung Galaxy innovations, the company said in a blogpost. "At Samsung, we believe the future of Galaxy innovation lies in sustainability commitment and open collaboration with partners," said TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics.
Microsoft introduces next-gen hybrid cloud platform
The tech giant believes that modern network infrastructure will assist its thybrid cloud platform s to improve and monetise their existing infrastructure while also lowering their overall cost of ownership, reports TechCrunch. Azure Operator Nexus will allow these companies to run their carrier-grade workloads both on-premises and on Azure. AT&T made the decision to adopt.
Twitter lays off product manager who led Blue subscription project
Crawford led various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription and its forthcoming payments platform. More than 50 employees were impacted by the layoffs, which were spread across several departments. Martijn de Kuijper, the creator of the now-shuttered Revue newsletter platform that Twitter acquired in 2021, was also among them.
Google layoffs not based on performance: Sacked Indian employee
In a LinkedIn post, Google India employee Animesh Swain stated that pink slips were also served to employees with highest ratings. The list also has names who were recently awarded promotions."The people who managed to stay (including me) are not necessarily better than those laid off," Swain was quoted as saying in the post.
AI tools not far away from being scary, we need to get them right: OpenAI CEO
The artificial general intelligence (AGI) comes with serious risk of misuse, drastic accidents, and societal disruption. "Because the upside of AGI is so great, we do not believe it is possible or desirable for society to stop its development forever; instead, society and the developers of AGI have to figure out how to get it right," Altman said in a blog post.
Most CISOs to change jobs due to growing stress from hacking threats
The cybersecurity personnel are facing acute stress as nation-state bad actors continue to infiltrate government and enterprise systems with sophisticated malware. "Cybersecurity professionals are facing unsustainable levels of stress. CISOs are on the defence, with the only possible outcomes that they don't get hacked or they do," said Deepti Gopal, Director Analyst, Gartner.
US man arrested for stalking ex-wife using AirTag: Report
According to the police, Carlos Atkins is not the first stalker to be jailed because of AirTags, reports AppleInsider. Atkins is said to have located the victim's vehicle so that he could place roses on it. "His unnamed ex-wife found the AirTag in her car, and reportedly Atkins has confessed that he placed it there," the report mentioned.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 may not feature Chinese foldable panels
The tech giant is expected to make the panels for its upcoming foldables, reports SamMobile. The company is likely to use the teardrop hinge design for its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 devices. It is expected that the company's top priority for 2023 is to make its foldable phones thinner.
Nokia-maker HMD Global to move some manufacturing to Europe
HMD Global chief marketing officer Lars Silberbauer said that by starting this journey to bring manufacturing to Europe, "we want to ensure that the critical part of the development of the devices are within Europe and within European legislations, which is quite important for a lot of our customers.a The announcement came four years after HMD Global said it was moving its data centres to Europe to meet the GDPR norms, reports TechCrunch.
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