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A task force of the Commissioner of Food Safety in Telangana inspected the quick commerce platform BlinkIt’s warehouse in Telangana’s Medchal Malkajgiri district on June 5 and found the premises to be unhygienic. The task force reported the presence of expired food products and also suspected that the two products— Whole Farm Ragi flour and Toor dal—...
Microsoft is the subject of two complaints filed to the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA) by the privacy advocacy group None Of Your Business (NOYB). Filed on June 4, the complaints allege that Microsoft violated the data privacy rights of school children through their Microsoft 365 suite by tracking them with cookies without their consent and...
Raising concerns about the working conditions of Amazon India’s warehouse workers in the ongoing heatwave in India, the Amazon India Workers Association (AIWA) wrote to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, as per a press release on May 28, 2024. The AIWA demanded that the government acknowledge the severe temperatures in northern and western...
DuckDuckGo, a free-to-use and privacy-oriented Internet browser, announced on its blog post on June 6 that it would allow users anonymous access to AI-powered Chatbots. These include OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 Turbo and Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, as well as Meta Llama 3 and Mistral’s Mixtral 8x7B, both open-source models. What is DuckDuckGo’s Policy?...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its bi-monthly monetary policy statement, has shared its plans for developmental and regulatory policy measures in the realm of fintech, payments, and export and import. Here are some of the changes the RBI plans to implement in the coming months: Set up a Digital Payments Intelligence Platform: ...
What’s the news: The National Medical Commission (NMC), India’s medical education regulator, has directed all medical colleges to make Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts (ABHA ID) mandatory for seeing patients, reported Mint. Until November 2023, this call for ABHA registration was only in the form of encouragement through circulars. However, according...