Users of WhatsApp will soon be able to block message screenshots.

 

On Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is disclosing very important details about the creation of three new privacy features for WhatsApp: the ability to leave group chats without informing other participants, the ability to choose who can see when you're online on WhatsApp, and the ability to prevent screenshots of messages that have been viewed once.

Additionally, WhatsApp is now launching a new global advertising campaign, with the first cities being India and the United Kingdom, to educate users about new features and how WhatsApp secures their experience by using multiple layers of security thanks to their privacy features, including end-to-end encryption, two-step verification, end-to-end encrypted chat backup, and more.

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North Korea's Kim Jong Un declares victory against Covid

 

Seoul, South KoreaNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared victory in the battle against the novel coronavirus, ordering a lifting of maximum anti-epidemic measures imposed in May, state media said on Thursday.

North Korea has not revealed how many confirmed infections of the virus it has found, but since July 29 it has reported no new suspected cases with what international aid organizations say are limited testing capabilities

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Link : https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/10/asia/north-korea-kim-covid-victory-coronavirus-pandemic-intl-hnk/index.html

France calls on companies to relieve employees enlisted as firefighters to battle blazes

 

Paris (CNN) Fewer than two weeks after two significant fires decimated more than 20,000 hectares of forests in the same area, thousands of hectares have been lost as a new fire continues to burn in the Gironde region of southwest France.

As a fourth heat wave since June hits much of the country, the French government is urging businesses to make their employees who are enlisted volunteer firefighters accessible throughout August to combat the fires.

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Link : https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/10/europe/france-wildfires-intl-climate/index.html

Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'

 

Meta's new prototype chatbot has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg exploits its users for money.

Meta says the chatbot uses artificial intelligence and can chat on "nearly any topic".

Asked what the chatbot thought of the company's CEO and founder, it replied "our country is divided and he didn't help that at all".

Meta said the chatbot was a prototype and might produce rude or offensive answers.

The chatbot, called BlenderBot 3, was released to the public on Friday.

The programme "learns" from large amounts of publicly available language data.

When asked about Mark Zuckerberg, the chatbot told the BBC: "He did a terrible job at testifying before congress. It makes me concerned about our country."

Facebook eyes 10,000 EU jobs to build ‘metaverse’.

 

PARIS: Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the “metaverse”, a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice in Silicon Valley hype around the idea of the metaverse, which would blur the lines between the physical world and the digital one

The technology might, for example, allow someone to don virtual reality glasses that make it feel as if they’re face-to-face with a friend — when in fact they are thousands of miles apart and connected via the internet.

“The metaverse has the potential to help unlock access to new creative, social, and economic opportunities. And Europeans will be shaping it right from the start,” Facebook said in a blog post.

The European Union hires, spread over the next five years, will include “highly specialised engineers”, but the company otherwise gave few details of its plans for the new metaverse team.

“The EU has a number of advantages that make it a great place for tech companies to invest — a large consumer market, first class universities and, crucially, top quality talent,” the blog post said.

Link : https://www.dawn.com/news/1652903/facebook-eyes-10000-eu-jobs-to-build-metaverse

Electric bomb dropped on people in Sri Lanka; 264% increase in prices

 

Colombo: Sri Lanka, which is experiencing the greatest financial crisis, has announced an increase in electricity cost of 264%.

The World News Agency reports that before the repayment of the IMF loan instalment, Sri Lanka—the nation experiencing the worst financial crisis, deficit, lack of dollars, and economic disaster—placed the entire weight on the people.

Loss-making The Ceylon Electricity Board of Sri Lanka reported that the government regulator had increased power rates historically for the first time.

According to official data, large consumers will pay approximately 80% more under the new electricity prices, while two-thirds of the 7.8 million families using less than 90 kilowatts of electricity per month will be severely hurt.

Similar to this, the lowest-paying customers, who are currently paid Rs 2.50 per unit, will now pay Rs 8.0. Government authorities, on the other hand, insisted that although the power firm sought an 800 percent increase in tariff, the regulator only allowed it to go up by a maximum of 264 percent. Large consumers who currently pay Rs 45 per unit will now have to pay Rs 75.

The "CEB" power provider in Sri Lanka has claimed that it is unable to get oil for its thermal generators, forcing it to carry out lengthy load shedding of energy throughout the nation.

It should be recalled that Sri Lanka declared default in April after failing to make payments on its $51 billion foreign debt, and that the new president, after a change of administration, is currently negotiating a bailout plan with the IMF.