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Internet Blackout Hits Afghanistan As Taliban Enforce Morality Crackdown
An internet blackout hit Afghanistan on Monday, with local media reporting a potential nationwide cut of fiber-optic services as part of a Taliban crackdown on immorality.
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China Extends Social Media Sanctions To Include Weibo, Kuaishou
China's internet regulator said it would take "disciplinary and punitive measures" against popular apps Weibo and Kuaishou for highlighting celebrity news and "undesirable" content, extending a crackdown on social media platforms.
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Afghanistan Taliban Extend Crackdown On Internet Access
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities expanded their crackdown on internet access Wednesday, severing fibre optic connections in multiple provinces in what officials said was a campaign against "vice".
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YouTube Reportedly Cracks Down on Premium Family Plan Sharing With Location-Based Checks
YouTube has reportedly started cracking down on Premium Family accounts where members live outside the plan manager’s household. Some users are said to be receiving warning emails stating their Premium access will be revoked within 14 days if location checks fail, though they will remain in the family group with ads unless verified. YouTube alrea...
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Internet Outage In Hyderabad As Electricity Department Removes Dangling Cables
A massive crackdown on overhead cables dangling on powerlines was launched across Telangana after Deputy Chief Minister and Energy Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu asked officials to remove dangerous wires from electricity poles "on a war footing."
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Government Bans AltBalaji, Ullu and Other Apps and Websites for Showing Obscene Content
Government has issued a crackdown against 25 apps and websites which published obscene content, according to a report. Action has been taken under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, against apps and video streaming platforms such as AltBalaji, Big Shots, and Ullu for allegedly displaying "indecent" representation of women.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Donald Trump to Avoid Antitrust Trial: Report
Meta and its representatives met with President Trump and his senior advisers ahead of an April 14 Federal Trade Commission trial that could force the company to unwind its acquisitions of messaging platform WhatsApp and image-sharing app Instagram.
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Google, Apple Hit by Twin EU Rebuke Amid Big Tech Crackdown
The European Commission chastised Google for allegedly breaching the bloc’s landmark Digital Markets Act by favoring in-house services across its sprawling search empire and for preventing app developers from steering consumers to offers outside of its Play Store. Meanwhile, Apple was told it must loosen the shackles on its prized iPhone operatin...
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Google Play Store, Apple's App Store Remove Multiple VPN Applications in India: Report
Several VPN apps have reportedly been removed from the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store in India, marking the first crackdown since the government issued rules in 2022, requiring VPN providers to collect and store customer details. Despite closing physical servers in response to a government order issued two years ago, some VPN providers sti...
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US Government Calls For Breakup Of Google And Chrome
The US government late Wednesday asked a judge to order the dismantling of Google by selling its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the internet giant.
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YouTube Reportedly Testing New Method to Disrupt Ad Blockers Amid Ongoing Crackdown
YouTube is reportedly developing another way to crack down on third-party blockers by injecting ads directly from the server, according to a post on social media. It is speculated that this change may combine the video and ads into one and it may be played as a continuous stream on the video-streaming platform, preventing the browser plugins from s...
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Paytm Signals Job Cuts, Asset Sales After Hit From India Probe
Paytm warned of job cuts and said it would trim non-core assets after reporting its first sales decline on record, reflecting fallout from a regulatory probe that curtailed much of the Indian fintech pioneer’s business.
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YouTube Confirms “Appropriate Action” on Third-Party Ad-Blocking Apps in Renewed Crackdown
YouTube is strengthening its efforts against third-party apps that block in-video apps on the platform. In a new announcement on April 15, the company highlighted that it will begin taking “appropriate action” against apps that let viewers watch videos without ads by violating its API services terms of service. The video streaming giant also ur...
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Paytm Crackdown Signals More RBI Scrutiny on India Banks
India stunned investors last month by abruptly suspending most activities of the banking affiliate of Paytm, a once high-flying fintech star that had attracted backing from Warren Buffett and SoftBank Group Corp. While the Paytm case was an extreme example of lapses in customer verification — it allegedly used a single identity document to open t...
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Apple iMessage, Microsoft Edge and Bing Dodge EU’s Big Tech Crackdown
Apple and Microsoft have managed to dodge strict new European Union rules reining in Big Tech platforms for iMessage and Bing, respectively. Both firms would have been obliged to adapt their services to meet a swathe of new obligations and prohibitions in the EU.
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Internet Blackout Hits Afghanistan As Taliban Enforce Morality Crackdown
An internet blackout hit Afghanistan on Monday, with local media reporting a potential nationwide cut of fiber-optic services as part of a Taliban crackdown on immorality.
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China Extends Social Media Sanctions To Include Weibo, Kuaishou
China's internet regulator said it would take "disciplinary and punitive measures" against popular apps Weibo and Kuaishou for highlighting celebrity news and "undesirable" content, extending a crackdown on social media platforms.
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Afghanistan Taliban Extend Crackdown On Internet Access
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities expanded their crackdown on internet access Wednesday, severing fibre optic connections in multiple provinces in what officials said was a campaign against "vice".
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YouTube Reportedly Cracks Down on Premium Family Plan Sharing With Location-Based Checks
YouTube has reportedly started cracking down on Premium Family accounts where members live outside the plan manager’s household. Some users are said to be receiving warning emails stating their Premium access will be revoked within 14 days if location checks fail, though they will remain in the family group with ads unless verified. YouTube alrea...
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Internet Outage In Hyderabad As Electricity Department Removes Dangling Cables
A massive crackdown on overhead cables dangling on powerlines was launched across Telangana after Deputy Chief Minister and Energy Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu asked officials to remove dangerous wires from electricity poles "on a war footing."
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Government Bans AltBalaji, Ullu and Other Apps and Websites for Showing Obscene Content
Government has issued a crackdown against 25 apps and websites which published obscene content, according to a report. Action has been taken under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, against apps and video streaming platforms such as AltBalaji, Big Shots, and Ullu for allegedly displaying "indecent" representation of women.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Donald Trump to Avoid Antitrust Trial: Report
Meta and its representatives met with President Trump and his senior advisers ahead of an April 14 Federal Trade Commission trial that could force the company to unwind its acquisitions of messaging platform WhatsApp and image-sharing app Instagram.
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Google, Apple Hit by Twin EU Rebuke Amid Big Tech Crackdown
The European Commission chastised Google for allegedly breaching the bloc’s landmark Digital Markets Act by favoring in-house services across its sprawling search empire and for preventing app developers from steering consumers to offers outside of its Play Store. Meanwhile, Apple was told it must loosen the shackles on its prized iPhone operatin...
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Google Play Store, Apple's App Store Remove Multiple VPN Applications in India: Report
Several VPN apps have reportedly been removed from the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store in India, marking the first crackdown since the government issued rules in 2022, requiring VPN providers to collect and store customer details. Despite closing physical servers in response to a government order issued two years ago, some VPN providers sti...
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US Government Calls For Breakup Of Google And Chrome
The US government late Wednesday asked a judge to order the dismantling of Google by selling its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the internet giant.
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YouTube Reportedly Testing New Method to Disrupt Ad Blockers Amid Ongoing Crackdown
YouTube is reportedly developing another way to crack down on third-party blockers by injecting ads directly from the server, according to a post on social media. It is speculated that this change may combine the video and ads into one and it may be played as a continuous stream on the video-streaming platform, preventing the browser plugins from s...
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Paytm Signals Job Cuts, Asset Sales After Hit From India Probe
Paytm warned of job cuts and said it would trim non-core assets after reporting its first sales decline on record, reflecting fallout from a regulatory probe that curtailed much of the Indian fintech pioneer’s business.
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YouTube Confirms “Appropriate Action” on Third-Party Ad-Blocking Apps in Renewed Crackdown
YouTube is strengthening its efforts against third-party apps that block in-video apps on the platform. In a new announcement on April 15, the company highlighted that it will begin taking “appropriate action” against apps that let viewers watch videos without ads by violating its API services terms of service. The video streaming giant also ur...
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Paytm Crackdown Signals More RBI Scrutiny on India Banks
India stunned investors last month by abruptly suspending most activities of the banking affiliate of Paytm, a once high-flying fintech star that had attracted backing from Warren Buffett and SoftBank Group Corp. While the Paytm case was an extreme example of lapses in customer verification — it allegedly used a single identity document to open t...
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Apple iMessage, Microsoft Edge and Bing Dodge EU’s Big Tech Crackdown
Apple and Microsoft have managed to dodge strict new European Union rules reining in Big Tech platforms for iMessage and Bing, respectively. Both firms would have been obliged to adapt their services to meet a swathe of new obligations and prohibitions in the EU.
