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Digital Competition Law: IAMAI under fire from Indian startups for 'parroting Big Tech views'
A few companies and personalities from the Indian startup ecosystem disagree with IAMAI's position, claiming that they support such a law and that Big Tech companies influenced the industry body's opposition.
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Digital Competition Law will lead to over-regulation, stifle innovation, and adversely affect startups: IAMAI
In a draft document that is yet to be submitted to the Committee on Digital Competiton Law, the industry body has criticised the Parliamentary Committee on Finance's recommendation to introduce a new law on competition for digital markets. The final version of the submission may have some changes to it
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Meet the IIT Bombay professor who wants to build cities in space
Co-founded by Arindrajit Chowdhury and Tausif Shaikh, both from IIT Bombay, startup InspeCity's has a lofty dream of taking humanity to the stars
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India among top 4 countries to ask Twitter to remove content, request user data: Report
Twitter said that the site received 53,000 legal requests to remove content from governments between January 1 and June 30, 2022.
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OpenAI among vendors that tune Notion's artificial intelligence model
The company introduced Notion AI for its writing and note-taking segment in February, and it plans to expand it for its knowledge base and project management use cases later, said CEO and co-founder Ivan Zhao
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Notion AI next for project management and knowledge base segments: CEO and co-founder Ivan Zhao
Since launching Notion AI to all users, the company has noticed that people have been using the AI product majorly to improve their writing, and also for translations, Ivan Zhao said.
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InspeCity raises $1.5 million for servicing satellites, building 'space cities'
The start-up's visition is to create a new economy in space and build human habitats that go beyond the limitations of our current planetary systems, said Arindrajit Chowdhury, CEO, Inspecity. Chowdhury is also a professor at the mechanical engineering department of IIT Bombay.
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India one of our most important regions, Hyderabad our only engineering office outside US: Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
Ivan Zhao, CEO and co-founder of productivity platform Notion, claims that half of the Fortune 500 are its customers and wants that figure to reach 100%.
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'Indian Space Policy 2023 gives us wings': Start-ups laud long-awaited regulation
The Indian Space Policy was released on April 20 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), more than a week after the Cabinet approved it.
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MC Explains | What is space policy 2023, what does it mean for private players and other questions answered
Released on April 21, the Indian Space Policy 2023 seeks to promote private participation in Indian space activities, as well as to support space start-ups
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Indian hacker found bug that could have led to deletion of any LinkedIn posts
Anand Prakash, an ethical hacker and CEO of cybersecurity firm Pingsafe, found a security vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to send specific requests to LinkedIn servers that could have led to the deletion of any post on the platform
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Govt shall focus on providing support to space sector start-ups: Indian Space Policy 2023
Through the Indian Space Policy 2023, the government seeks to provide regulatory certainty to space activities by various stakeholders, in order to create a thriving space ecosystem, the policy said
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AAGG Rules 2023: MeitY seeks to allow ‘any entity’ to take up Aadhaar authentication
The AAGG Rules was originally introduced in 2020, the Government stated, to prevent leakage of public funds, in interest of good governance and so on
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Dhruva Space, Bellatrix Aerospace startups to launch payloads on ISRO PSLV-C55
Along with Dhruva Space and Bellatrix Aerospace, there will be seven experimental payloads aboard PSLV-C55's POEM -2 module. The ISRO rocket's launch is scheduled for April 22
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MeitY plans migrating from NIC to secure cloud solution for government email services
The ministry is looking for a master system integrator who can take 'complete ownership' of migrating the email solutions to a cloud system that can be scaled and can handle up to 50 lakh users.
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Pakistan-aligned threat actor targeting Indian edu sector to keep an eye on research activities: SentinelLabs researcher
Aleksandar Milenkoski, a senior threat researcher at US-based cyber security firm SentinelLabs, said the threat actor has been luring researchers and institutions with phishing emails that are embedded with malwares
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New IT Rules may lead to misuse: Body representing Google, Meta, Twitter, Apple criticise Centre's new fact checking norms
The recent amendment to the IT Rules mandate that a government appointed fact checking organisation will have the powers to identify any "false or misleading content relating to the government"
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New IT rules: Let govt fact check unit perform and earn respect of social media platforms, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar
While explaining why the proposed fact check unit could not have been formed outside the government, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that information relating to the government would only be available with the concerned ministries or departments.
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Hacktivist Indonesia also targeted US, Israel, Sweden apart from India over incidents that hurt religious sentiments
Recently, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre issued an alert on Hacktivist Indonesia group's announcement that it will target 12,000 government websites.
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Geopolitical conflicts contributed to 53% increase in ransomware attacks on India in 2022: CERT-In
In the India Ransomware Report 2022, CERT-In warned that the use of ransomwares in geo-political conflicts will only increase when it becomes "becomes an arsenal for cyberwarfares"
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Centre issues alert as Indonesian hacker group targets 12,000 Indian websites
The alert also said that the hacktivist group had released a list of government websites that it claims to be targeting, which included state and Central government websites.
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CDS Gen Anil Chauhan calls for safeguarding India’s assets in space
The Chief of Defence Staff called for enhancing the country's space situational awareness, which means to understand the orbital environment better, with accurate data on space radiation and where each object is located.
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Kunal Kamra moves Bombay HC against government's amendment to IT Rules on content fact-checking
The Bombay High Court directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to explain why the IT Rules 2023 should not be stayed and to "describe the factual background that necessitated the issuance of the amendments."
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Short-term pain but long-term opportunities: How Indian space tech ecosystem is tackling global inflationary trends
There has been a rise in launch prices globally, driven by a tight launch market. For Indian space tech start-ups, which are facing difficulty in obtaining funds from foreign VCs, new financial mechanisms could prove to be the saviour.
