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Ontario cities, police forces ban TikTok on devices while others consider the move

Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press Published Thursday, March 9, 2023 6:34AM EST Last Updated Thursday, March 9, 2023 5:05PM EST TORONTO – Cities and police services across Ontario say they are following the federal government’s lead in banning TikTok from work and government-owned devices, while others consider such bans, as privacy watchdogs assess the video-sharing […]

The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie gets official characters trailer

Japanese role-playing-game The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie has received an official characters trailer ahead of its English-language release later this year. Game developer Nihon Falcom announced four games will be coming to the West for the first time, with Trails into Reverie the last to drop. Originally released in Japan in 2020, the […]

Tiktok has an insatiable appetite of AI servers research shows

Audio player loading… Shipments of AI servers are bucking the trend across the tech industry with expected compounded double-digit growth through 2026. Research analyst firm TrendForce expects that by the end of 2026, about 200,000 AI servers will be shipped to CSP (cloud service providers), up from about 125,000 for 2022.  While Microsoft, Google, AWS […]

Singaporean’s gold chain snatched during hug in Bangkok

SINGAPORE – A Singaporean man thought he was just getting a hug from a transgender person on the streets of Thailand. But what was supposedly a friendly gesture turned out to be a case of snatch theft, as the person soon fled with the man’s gold chain in hand. In a post on Facebook, the […]

Karlin Lillington: Long past time for closer scrutiny of TikTok

We’ve needed to talk about TikTok for a long time, well before governments – including India, Canada, the US, and the European Commission, council and parliament – decided the app should be banned from work devices. At the moment, it can feel as if every other news bulletin brings some new woe for the app […]

Dove takes bold stand against popular TikTok

Unilever’s Dove is calling on its global community to #TurnYourBack to the trending bold glamour filter that is well known on TikTok. As the filter sweeps social channels with content creators calling out its dangers, Dove wants consumers to join the brand to take a stand as part of its ongoing commitment to #NoDigitalDistortion in any of […]

‘Nasty’ words will not deter Vera Pauw from World Cup ambitions

Republic of Ireland manager Vera Pauw admits her family have concerns for her ahead of her return to the United States next month for two friendlies with the Irish women’s team. auw also agrees with her legal advisor’s assessment that the approach used in the report by the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) into allegations […]

Barangay captain died trying to protect Degamo

DUMAGUETE, Philippines – The slain Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo was an outlier among the scions of land-owning political clans and his folksy looks and ways earned him thousands of loyal followers. One of those supporters, Barangay Fatima captain Florenda Quinikito of Sta. Catalina town, died trying to protect the governor on Saturday morning, March 4 […]

Under pressure, TikTok unveils new European data security regime

TikTok has announced out a new data security regime, nicknamed “Project Clover”, amid growing pressure from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic. The European Parliament, European Commission and the EU Council recently banned TikTok from staff phones due to growing concerns about the company, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, and whether China’s […]

What we learned at Optus from being hacked

Cybercrime will cost the world more than $2 trillion this year, it’s overtaken the drug trade in value, and some call it the world’s third-largest economy behind the US and China. Cybercrime is often state sanctioned, or state ignored, and the reward for effort equation has been improving for cyber criminals. Australia is unfortunately a […]

Kathy Sheridan: Lo, in the fourth year of Covid, the ancient game of hindsight returned

The merchants of rear-window certitude never sleep. They haunt social media in their droves. The need to prove that they were correct presses deep in their psyche. They alone saw blindingly obvious solutions to a deadly novel plague infesting a small, tightly integrated society made up of large extended families. First, a dose of context. […]

Indian national on alleged molestation trial at Yoga Centre in Singapore

An Indian national is claiming trial to eight molestation charges involving four alleged victims when he was an instructor at a Yoga centre in the Centra Business District of Singapore. The first alleged victim, who was then 24, was allegedly molested by Rajpal Singh on July 11, 2020. It was not stated in court documents […]

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 378 of the invasion

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 378 of the invasion US news report suggests pro-Ukrainian group carried out Nord Stream attack; Ukraine names unarmed prisoner of war shot in video See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage It will be an “open road” for Russian troops to capture cities in Ukraine should […]

Yulduz and Fariba Hashimi: Escaping the Taliban, chasing a dream

It’s a scorching hot June afternoon in the middle of an Italian heatwave. There hasn’t been any rain for a month. But grey clouds are slowly rolling in and the humidity is rising fast. A storm is brewing. The kind that only happens once a summer here. Two sisters are in the foothills of the […]

Yulduz and Fariba Hashimi: Escaping the Taliban, chasing a dream

It’s a scorching hot June afternoon in the middle of an Italian heatwave. There hasn’t been any rain for a month. But grey clouds are slowly rolling in and the humidity is rising fast. A storm is brewing. The kind that only happens once a summer here. Two sisters are in the foothills of the […]

Ukraine-Russia war: Russian officers mutiny after devastating tank battle

Ukrainian servicemen fire a 2S5 Giatsint-S self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops outside the frontline town of Bakhmut – Reuters Senior Russian officers have reportedly refused to continue pressing the attack on Vugledar after suffering heavy losses in a failed assault on the eastern Ukrainian town. Russia is believed to have lost around 130 tanks and […]

US sees China propaganda efforts becoming more like Russia’s

China has long been seen by the U.S. as a prolific source of anti-American propaganda but less aggressive in its influence operations than Russia, which has used cyberattacks and covert operations to disrupt U.S. elections and denigrate rivals. But many in Washington now think China is increasingly adopting tactics associated with Russia — and there’s […]

US sees China propaganda efforts becoming more like Russia’s

WASHINGTON (AP) — China has long been seen by the U.S. as a prolific source of anti-American propaganda but less aggressive in its influence operations than Russia, which has used cyberattacks and covert operations to disrupt U.S. elections and denigrate rivals. But many in Washington now think China is increasingly adopting tactics associated with Russia […]

Irish data watchdogs to jointly assess cyber risks of TikTok

Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon will meet the director of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today, Tuesday, March 7, over the potential safety issues linked to using TikTok in Ireland. he meeting is happening as the Government seeks views on whether to follow the European Commission and US government agencies in banning TikTok […]

Chinese comedian ‘Chi Zi’ has online profiles wiped after Canadian tour wrapped

Wang Yuechi, a standup comic from China, or Chi Zi, his stage name. His jokes may have run afoul of China’s censors.Handout Wang Yuechi, a stand-up comic from China, wrapped up his North American tour in Toronto last month. Soon afterward, his name was wiped off most major mainland Chinese social media. According to audiences […]

Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today

Hello and welcome to Tuesday. We’ve got another morning tech news briefing if you’ve got three minutes.   1. Apple reportedly planning new products Kicking off again with Apple today and it’s good news for all those iMac fans pounding the table for another all-in-one device from the company. One oft-cited Apple analyst said we […]

Former FBI cyber agent urges all consumers to demand data privacy action

Turmoil in the online world has drawn headlines lately, whether it’s the shakeup at Twitter or the ongoing efforts to ban TikTok on US.. government systems.  As a security practitioner, I know never to let a crisis go to waste. We can use these heightened data privacy concerns to motivate us to take action that […]

renewables attract more women to the energy sector

“He really got it and said ‘If we don’t change we will lose all these incredible women — I’m going to make your case’,” she said. “That was incredibly powerful.” Kuepper-Russell is now deputy chief executive of 5B – the modular solar panel pioneer backed by Malcolm Turnbull and Simon Holmes a Court – which […]