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Senior Twitter executive gets court relief to prevent Musk from firing her
The court order was secured by Sinead McSweeney, who is Twitter's global vice-president for public policy, reports The Irish Times. "She claims that by not responding to a generic and vague email sent to all Twitter employees by its owner, multibillionaire Musk, earlier this month, she has been treated as if she is no longer employed by the company," the report said.
Facebook blocks Sanjeev Sanyal's post on 26/11 attacks, terms it as spam
The matter was resolved later after Sanyal personally complained to Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, among other products and services. "Facebook has just informed me that my post on 26/11 Mumbai attacks is against their 'Community Standards' on spam... really??? And how is it spam? or 'false advertising'? Evidently Indians are not allowed to even remember atrocities inflicted on us," Sanyal said in a series of tweets.
US seizes call spoofing site that stole millions
iSpoof, which said it has been taken over by the FBI and the US Secret Service, provided "spoofing" services that allowed paying customers to conceal their phone numbers by using trusted organisations, like banks or tax offices, in order to conduct social engineering attacks, reports TechCrunch. "The services of the website allowed those who sign up and pay for the service to anonymously make spoofed calls, send recorded messages, and intercept one-time passwords," Europol, was quoted as saying in the report.
Musk says will make phones if Apple, Google remove Twitter from app stores
It all started when a user tweeted, "If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?" Musk replied: "I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone."
Twitter as a platform must be fair to all: Musk
Musk replied: "I'm fine with Trump not tweeting. The important thing is that Twitter correct a grave mistake in banning his account, despite no violation of the law or terms of service." "As a reminder, I was a significant supporter of the Obama-Biden presidency and (reluctantly) voted for Biden over Trump," he added. "But Twitter as a platform must be fair to all," he said.
Elon Musk may produce 'alternative' smartphones
It all started when a user tweeted, "If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?" Musk replied: "I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone."
Elon Musk still firing coders at Twitter amid Thanksgiving feasts
Ikuhiro Ihara, a highly-respected Twitter coder who made the transition from 140-character to 280-character happen, has been fired unceremoniously. "One of the people fired Musk's latest purge was Ikuhiro Ihara, a highly-respected senior software engineer who helped lead the push to expand tweets to 280 characters," tweeted Casey Newton of Platformer.
Twitter 'Verified' next week, all accounts to be manually authenticated: Elon Musk
The new Twitter owner had earlier paused its $8 Blue subscription service with verification after it faced chaos on the platform as fake accounts with blue badge impersonated real accounts after paying $8, saying it will relaunch it from November 29 -- this time more "rock solid".
Lava launches budget phone with octa-core MediaTek Helio G37 chipset
Blaze NXT is priced at Rs 9,299 and is available across the company's retail network, and will go on sale on Amazon and Lava's online store on December 2. The new device comes in three colour variations -- Glass Blue, Glass Red and Glass Green. The NXT offers a 16.55cm (6.5-inch) display with an octa-core MediaTek Helio G37 chipset with clock speed of up to 2.3 Ghz.
Indo-Pacific region is imp for eco development of global community: Rajnath Singh
Centuries old sea lanes criss-crossing the region have helped enhance trade, he added. Rajnath Singh was delivering a keynote address at the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue-2022 in New Delhi. He said that the global community has been working towards economic development through multiple platforms and agencies, UN Security Council being the foremost among them.
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