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By Sharya Unamboowe, Vice President and General Manager, Integration, WSO2 India’s policy direction on data governance has never been clearer. From the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act to the National Data Governance Framework and MeitY’s cloud empanelment policy for government workloads, the intent is unambiguous: India’s
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Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print Comcast has folded its Wi-Fi-based intruder detection feature into Xfinity Shield, a repackaged bundle of physical and cybersecurity offerings. The US telco launched WiFi Motion in 2025. Xfinity Shield also includes cybersecurity protections built into the Xfinity Gateway
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A 2016 internal email stating that Instagram’s overall company goal was “teen time spent” is now an exhibit in an Oakland courtroom. It is one of several internal documents the states put before a federal judge this week, in the first case to reach trial out of a litigation
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Prevalent AI, a London company that folds hundreds of scattered enterprise data sources into a single queryable graph, has raised $22m from Integrity Growth Partners. It is the first primary capital the business has taken in nine years of trading, which in the current market counts as an eccentricity. The
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Xiaomi’s profit fell again in the second quarter. A global memory shortage kept pushing up the cost of its phones. The Chinese company posted its third straight quarterly profit decline, Bloomberg reported. Adjusted net income dropped about 43 percent to 6.22bn yuan ($922mn). The reported figure was less
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A German company is importing Audi’s China-only E5 Sportback and E7X, models Audi never intended to sell in Europe, and registering them for road use. Even after shipping and homologation they undercut Audi’s European-built equivalents by thousands of euros. Audi built two electric cars it never wanted Europeans
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Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the company’s fastest-growing
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A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and software for data centres and for
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TikTok is working on a way for users to send each other money inside direct messages, according to Bloomberg. The feature would run on TikTok Pay, the app’s existing payment system, Bloomberg reported. Natalie Lung and Alexandra Levine wrote that references to it sit in code hidden in the
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California’s Energy Commission has unanimously approved the first US efficiency standard for replacement tyres, capping rolling resistance from 2029 and tightening it in 2033. Europe has enforced a looser ceiling since 2012 and labelled tyres for efficiency since the same year. California has decided how wasteful a tyre is
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Germany’s ADAC measured charging losses on five EVs and found that a household socket wastes between 12.7% and 24.2% of the electricity drawn. An 11 kW wallbox cut every car’s losses to between 5.1% and 7%. Some of the electricity you buy to charge an
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* The Fairphone Gen 6 Plus has landed, and it's available in the US too * However, at $649.99 / £569, some tech fans are questioning its price * The specs aren't special, but it's modular and sustainably produced The Fairphone Gen 6 Plus has just launched,
