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Source: Live Mint The company suffered a severe hacking episode last month in which a hacker using the alias “xenZen” created a website and Telegram chatbots to leak its policyholders’ sensitive personal data from names, phone numbers, email IDs, addresses to financial and health information. The hacker said Star Health’s chief information security officer Amarjeet…
Source: Live Mint India’s household savings as a proportion of our GDP is declining. In its latest Financial Stability Report (June 2024), the Reserve Bank of India has also noted that while net financial savings have declined in 2022-23, financial liabilities have gone up thanks to retail loans for consumption and investment. Rise of personal…
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Source: The Verge It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US. Duke Law School’s Center for…
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Source: The Verge The year 2024 has been another very good one for wireless earbuds. We’ve reached a point where every tech giant is firing on all cylinders. Apple’s AirPods Pro, Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro, and Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 are each fantastic in their own right and fairly comparable in the features…
Source: Coin Tegraph According to the Chinese government, 1,391 individuals have been prosecuted on money laundering-related charges in the first half of 2024. Read Full Article
Source: Coin Tegraph Michael Saylor appears to be “explicitly arguing for a regulatory capture approach to protecting crypto,” which was not what it is about, Vitalik Buterin said. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge The first PCIe Gen 5 SSDs from the likes of Seagate and Crucial began hitting the market nearly two years ago, but Samsung has been notably absent with its own model. That will change in March with the arrival of the Samsung 9100 Pro series, its first consumer-ready pure PCIe Gen 5…
Source: Coin Tegraph Bitfarms will sell its largest Paraguay mining farm to Hive Digital for $85 million as it focuses on its US expansion in Bitcoin and AI infrastructure. Read Full Article
Source: Live Mint India’s corporate bond market has long been hamstrung by low liquidity, locking investors into their holdings until maturity and discouraging retail participation. While institutional investors dominate, retail investors—wary of the illiquid secondary market—have stayed on the sidelines. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has unveiled a new liquidity window that…
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Source: The Verge An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into playable musical instruments. The Zefiro looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but by gently blowing into one end, it can be used to play simulated instruments with even less skill than…
