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Twitter's refusal to comply with a government directive to block more than 250 accounts and posts has put the social media giant at the centre of a political firestorm in one of its key markets.

Google is weaning itself off user-tracking cookies that allow the Web giant to deliver personalised advertisements, but which also have raised the hackles of privacy defenders.

Internet access was partially restored in Myanmar on Sunday, Netblocks reported, as a nationwide web blockade failed to curb public outrage and protests against the coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Trilio technology to be leveraged in Veritas For OpenStack. Canonical unveils Ubuntu Core V20. Microchip Switchtec PFX PCIe 5.0 family unveiled. Lightbits Labs announces new patents and revenue growth. Alluxio achieves 3.5x Year-Over-Year revenue growth. StorCentric sees a strong 2020. Komprise expands in Europe through Tech Data. Amazon EBS store local snapshots on AWS Outposts. (more…)

Removing backgrounds from images nowadays is as easy as pie with these methods.

Internet services have been suspended in Delhi’s border areas again amid farmers’ call for a “chakka jam” (blockade). The Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered the suspension of internet services at Singhu, Ghazipur, and Tikri borders, where farmers have been protesting against the Centre’s contentious farm laws.

Cyberpunk 2077 hotfix 1.12 has been announced by developers CD Projekt Red on Twitter through the game’s official handle. The update fixes a vulnerability that could allow hackers to access players’ PCs through malicious code injected into mods and custom save files. The changelog mentions that a buffer overrun issue has also been fixed and non-ASLR DLLs have been...

Samsung is planning to build a new $17 billion chip plant in Texas in US that could create 1,800 jobs, according to documents filed with Texas state officials.

In its release notes on the Microsoft forums, the Skype team confirmed that the latest version of Skype 8.68 is rolling out for all platforms, across Windows, Linux, Web, Android, iPhone, and iPad. The release notes confirm that Skype for Android is getting the background blur feature, almost two years after its first rollout to desktop users in February 2019. iOS use...

Aadhaar card is not mandatory to register on the government’s COVID-19 vaccination portal, Co-Win, Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said in Lok Sabha on Friday.