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Time of India
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- Time of India
Bizman loses over 1cr to cyber cons
Lucknow: A businessman from Lucknow was allegedly cheated of over Rs1.01 crore by cyber fraudsters who promised him a dealership with a car company in eastern UP. An FIR was registered on Tuesday. Inspector in-charge of the cyber police station, Brijesh Kumar Yadav said that a case was registered and an investigation is underway. Police are working to identify the accused and track the bank accounts involved in the transactions. The scam involved forged documents, fake email IDs, and impersonation of senior officials from a reputed automobile company. The victim, Ravitosh Asthana, vice president at CS Infra Construction and a resident of Vikalp Khand-5, applied for a dealership in Rasra, Ballia around two months ago. He found contact information through a Google search and submitted his application on a website he believed to be genuine. On May 15, he received an email from someone posing as a CRM officer, seeking official documents. Asthana complied, sending over all requested materials. On June 6, a man identifying himself as Vinod Jain, an officer in the dealer development cell, sent him a contract letter. Over time, Asthana was asked to pay various charges, eventually transferring Rs1.01 crore across multiple transactions. The fraudsters later sent another forged letter, this time carrying the name and signature of the company's global CEO, to further convince him of the deal's legitimacy. The deception unravelled on June 23 when the fraudsters demanded an additional Rs1.62 crore. Asthana revisited the company's official website and discovered he was in contact with imposters.
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Business Standard
2 hours ago
- Business Standard
Google seeks licensing talks with news organisations, following AI rivals
The company plans to launch a pilot project initially with about 20 national news outlets, according to one of the people Bloomberg By Julia Love and Hannah Miller Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to artificial intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign the company wants to strengthen strained ties with the industry. The company plans to launch a pilot project initially with about 20 national news outlets, according to one of the people, who works at a media outlet that was contacted and asked not to be identified discussing private talks. 'We've said that we're exploring and experimenting with new types of partnerships and product experiences, but we aren't sharing details about specific plans or conversations at this time,' a Google spokesperson said in a statement. Getting Alphabet Inc.'s Google to pay for content for AI projects could be a big win for struggling media companies, which have lost readers and advertisers to digital outlets for years and view artificial intelligence as a new, potentially existential threat. With the exception of a partnership with the Associated Press earlier this year and a 2024 pact with Reddit, Google has mostly sat on the sidelines while AI rivals strike deals with publishers. Startups Perplexity AI Inc. and OpenAI have both started paying publishers to use their content in their chatbots, giving the media companies a much-needed infusion of revenue. Google's licensing project is tailored to specific products, according to another person familiar with the plan. They didn't share additional details of the program, such as possible terms. Google cites articles and online outlets in its AI Overviews, which are short, AI-generated responses that top many search results. While publishers believe those summaries have cut traffic to their websites, they have been hesitant to shield their content from Google's AI tools for fear of hurting their visibility in the company's search results. Silicon Valley and the media industry have been at odds over tech companies' use of news content to build AI programs, with publishers worried it will further erode their relationship with readers. In late 2023, the New York Times sued OpenAI, alleging that the startup and its largest investor, Microsoft Corp., relied on copyrighted articles to train the popular ChatGPT chatbot and other artificial intelligence features. Yet as the media industry increasingly speaks out about the need for compensation, technology companies seem to be recognizing they must come to terms with news outlets, said David Gehring, chief executive officer of Distributed Media Lab, a company that works with publishers and advertisers. Gehring said he had no knowledge of Google's latest talks with publishers. 'Google and the other platforms realize that — if not by virtue of public policy then by virtue of technology — the platforms' access to unlimited web data is about to end,' said Gehring, who previously worked on news partnerships at Google and the UK newspaper the Guardian. 'And so they need to have licensing relationships in place, or there won't be any blood to put in the veins of the AI monster.' In July, Cloudflare Inc., a web infrastructure and security company, announced a 'pay per crawl' program that lets creators bill AI services for access to their content. 'Google still thinks they're special and that they don't have to play by the same rules that the rest of the industry does,' Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in an interview. 'Eventually, Google will get in line with what the large AI companies have been saying for a long time, which is that ultimately content providers need to be paid for their content.' Google has long engaged in a delicate dance with news outlets. Many publishers depend on the search engine for traffic when news breaks. Yet industry leaders have cried foul about the tech giant's use of their content in products such as Google News, which displays headlines and short snippets of articles. In the past, Google has offered programs such as Google News Showcase to compensate publishers without undermining its core argument that the copyright doctrine of fair use permits use of their material. The company has also been more open to striking deals with wire services such as the AP, which are in the business of licensing content. Earlier this year, Google announced a partnership with the AP to provide news for its Gemini chatbot, its first deal of that nature. The tech giant has also explored an audio AI news product under its Gemini brand that leverages the content it's licensing from the AP, according to a person familiar with the matter. For the long-term health of the news business, Danielle Coffey, president of the News/Media Alliance trade group, said she is focused on ensuring the industry has 'a legally sustainable right to compensation and protections that will provide a fair market exchange for our valuable content across the board.'
Time of India
2 hours ago
- Time of India
US lawmakers raise 'China-Russia Alert'; send letter to Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon: Tell us by August 8 ...
Three prominent Republican House lawmakers have reportedly raised national security concerns about the network of more than 400 subsea cables that handle 99% of international internet traffic and about threats from China and Russia. According to a report by Reuters, these lawmakers have pressed the CEOs of Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft on the security of critical submarine communications cables, citing escalating national security concerns. The move comes as Washington raises alarms about potential threats from China and Russia to the vast network of over 400 subsea cables that carry an estimated 99% of global internet traffic. What the letter from Republican lawmakers to Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon says In a letter sent Monday (July 21), Representatives John Moolenaar (Chair of the House panel on China), Carlos Gimenez (Chair of a relevant subcommittee), and Keith Self (Chair of another relevant subcommittee) voiced particular apprehension regarding the continued involvement of "China-affiliated entities such as SBSS, Huawei Marine, China Telecom, and China Unicom" in the maintenance and servicing of cable systems in which the tech giants hold direct or indirect operational involvement or ownership. The lawmakers stated their committees are "examining the extent to which foreign adversarial actors are positioning themselves, both overtly and covertly, to compromise subsea cable systems at key points of vulnerability." They have given the companies until August 8 to disclose any instances of suspected hardware tampering, optical signal tapping, unexpected signal distortion, or other operational irregularities observed during cable repair or maintenance. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like A genetic disorder that is damaging his organs. Help my son Donate For Health Donate Now Undo "A growing body of evidence points to a pattern of coordinated malign activity linked to the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation targeting subsea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, Indo-Pacific, and other strategic regions," the letter asserted. Letter follows attack on subsea infrastructure This congressional inquiry follows recent actions and incidents highlighting the vulnerability of subsea infrastructure. Recently, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr announced the agency's plan to implement rules prohibiting companies from connecting undersea submarine communication cables to the United States if they incorporate Chinese technology or equipment. Since 2020, U.S. regulators have been instrumental in blocking four proposed cable projects intended to link the United States with Hong Kong. More recently, in November 2024, two fiber-optic undersea telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea were severed, prompting sabotage investigations. In 2023, Taiwan accused two Chinese vessels of cutting the only two cables providing internet access to the Matsu Islands. Additionally, Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have been implicated in the severing of three cables vital for internet service to Europe and Asia. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
