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Congress leader Pawan Khera accuses Buch of receiving remuneration not only from the government but also from ICICI Bank and ICICI Prudential.

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Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has released a bug fix update to address an issue with the expiration of the application on Android beta

These changes follow some updates made over the last few months, including making groups larger, and giving admins the ability to delete messages sent in the groups they manage

A prominent German environmental group said Wednesday that it's suing Facebook's parent company Meta over persistent death threats posted on the social network against its staff. Environmental Action Germany, known by its German acronym DUH, says Meta has been unwilling to stop the threats of violence regularly directed at DUH director Juergen Resch and others in a Facebook group with more than 50,000 members. DUH has conducted high-profile campaigns demanding that German cities enforce air quality rules by banning certain heavily polluting vehicles. Meta didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. German lawmaker Renate Kuenast won a case against Facebook last year forcing the company to remove fake quotes attributed to her from its site and pay damages. Facebook is appealing the ruling.

Platform will serve financial services, telecom, manufacturing healthcare and other sectors

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a redesigned chat attachment menu for Android beta

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is widely rolling out the 'voice status updates' feature on iOS

New measures in the law include tougher and quicker criminal sanctions for tech bosses and new criminal offences for falsifying and destroying data

According to the report, some users may be able to access the new emojis from the official WhatsApp keyboard starting today, even on different versions of the app

Google and Meta Platforms have filed a lawsuit against a ruling by the South Korean data protection watchdog to penalise the global tech giants for illegally collecting personal data here

Meta has launched some new "creative expression" features for creators on Facebook, including the ability to create Reels of up to 90 seconds which were earlier limited to only 60 seconds

"Any strategy to invite young users into a digital space rife with potential harms should not be driven by a goal to maximise profit," the senators wrote

Under the new IT Rules 2021, big digital and social media platforms, with more than 5 million users, have to publish monthly compliance reports

The IT Ministry last month notified to establish three Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) as required under the recently amended IT Rules, 2021

Smaller models trained on more tokens -- which are pieces of words -- are easier to retrain and fine-tune for specific potential product use cases

The company also introduced a new gesture for hands-based locomotion, which you can try out in the latest version of First Hand

Meta's foray into subscription services follows Twitter, which announced last month that Twitter Blue will be priced at $11 per month

Last month, Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google, announced that as a measure to cut costs, 12,000 employees, or 6 per cent of its total headcount, would be sacked