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View: For 39 days, 104 matches, there will be joy on EarthThe FIFA World Cup is a global spectacle that transcends borders and even current global challenges. Despite predicted issues and high cost...
Meta shares fall on concerns over AI spending, legal scrutinyMeta Platforms is significantly increasing its investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure. This comes as the social media giant f...
'Great crackdown': Russia tightens the screws on the internetThe government is periodically jamming the web in regions across Russia, while restricting messaging services Telegram and WhatsApp and tak...
WhatsApp 'concerned' services to be blocked after Iran calls to delete appWhatsApp said it was "concerned" that its services would be blocked in Iran after a state broadcaster urged the public to delete the messag...
Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devicesIranian state television on Tuesday urged citizens to delete WhatsApp, claiming—without evidence—that the app shares user data with Israel....
Iran lifts WhatsApp ban, but users hardly feel a changeArdavan Yousefi, a Tehran cafe owner, finds Iran's lifting of the WhatsApp ban insignificant due to widespread restrictions on other platfo...
Iran lifts ban on WhatsApp and Google Play, state media saysIran has lifted the ban on Meta's WhatsApp and Google Play. This move is a step towards reducing internet restrictions. Iran has strict int...
Iran cyberspace council votes to lift ban on WhatsAppIran's top council responsible for safeguarding the internet voted Tuesday to lift a ban on the popular messaging application WhatsApp, whi...
X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with SC demandsBrazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has allowed the return of social media platform X after it was banned over compliance is...
Why Brazil’s Supreme Court blocked X and what it means for the platformBrazil's Supreme Court has ordered the suspension of X, formerly known as Twitter, due to its failure to comply with legal requirements. Ow...
How one Brazilian judge could suspend Elon Musk's XThe justice, Alexandre de Moraes, has threatened to suspend social media giant X nationwide if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn't swif...
Bulls get cold feet ahead of Fed meet; Sensex drops 377 points, Nifty below 21KAmong the Sensex stocks, Sun Pharma IndusInd Ban, Maruti, Titan, and Reliance Industries closed in the red, while UltraTech Cement, JSW Ste...
GIFT Nifty down 25 points; here's the trading setup for today's sessionHUL, ITC, UltraTech, Nestle, PVR Inox and a slew of other companies will announce their second quarter results today.
As net tightens, Iranians pushed to take up homegrown appsBanned from using popular Western apps, Iranians have been left with little choice but to take up state-backed alternatives, as the authori...
Facebook's loss, Telegram's gain: Chat app adds 'record' 70 mn users in a day after WhatsApp outageTelegram has gone from the 56th most downloaded free app in the United States to the fifth.
Pakistan orders temporary social media shutdown after violent protestsIn a notice to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the Interior Ministry requested a "complete blocking" of Twitter, Facebook, Whatsa...
Telegram CEO criticises WhatsApp over encryption claims, security backdoorsIn a blogpost titled 'Why using WhatsApp is dangerous', Messaging app Telegram's founder Durov said WhatsApp marketed end-to-end encryption...
Why the Saudi Crown Prince needs cyberweaponsSaudi Arabia has already shown that it cannot be trusted with powerful cybertools such as those developed by the NSO Group. Technology that...
Behind the information curtain: Kashmir has learnt to work around social media bansThe social media gag in Jammu & Kashmir may limit the amount of inflammatory material going viral but it can’t put a lid on discontent.
Iran moves to ease Internet censorship via "smart filtering"Censorship has eased somewhat since Hassan Rouhani was elected last year on a moderate platform the "smart filter" initiative seemed to ref...