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On June 8, a global internet outage took the world by surprise at around 3:00pm Indian Standard Time. The outage affected many prominent news outlets and social media platforms including CNN, The Verge, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit.

A global internet outage (now resolved) was reported by several internet users around 3 PM Indian Standard Time. The disruption has affected a number of websites including news portals such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Guardian in addition to platforms such as Reddit.

Amazon.com Inc has been sued for "systemic" discrimination against Black and female workers, especially for corporate roles. The lawsuit filed in federal court by Charlotte Newman alleges that Amazon hires Black people for lower positions and promotes them slower than White workers with similar qualifications.

Former Parler CEO John Matze sent a memo to staffers on February 3 saying his position as CEO of the company had been terminated with immediate effect on January 29.

Andy Jassy may keep a low profile, but he has led the Amazon Web Services (AWS) to an impressive $50 billion revenue this year.

Apple has reportedly been headhunting high-profile cloud computing engineers, while focusing on engineers specializing in container and Kubernetes technologies. These form the building blocks of cloud computing infrastructure underpinning Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure.

Last night, leading Indian lab testing company Dr. Lal PathLabs was caught exposing confidential patient data through an unprotected storage bucket on Amazon Web Services.

Amid growing cases of cyber-attacks and data breaches, Edureka, a renowned Bengaluru-based online learning platform, has been caught exposing personal user information.

Even after all the promises, video conferencing giant Zoom keeps running into security issues.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the entire world to switch to the routine of interacting, studying, and working remotely.

The border tensions between India and China and the ensuing crackdown on 59 Chinese applications has surged 'vocal for local' calls.

Personal and financial data of more than 7 million users of BHIM, a government-backed peer-to-peer UPI payments app, has been leaked publicly.

Xiaomi has refuted the data mining allegations leveled by two popular security searchers.

Apple encourages security researchers to flag vulnerabilities in its products and is also willing to pay some really good money for that.

Zoom, the video conferencing service that shot to fame in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, is drawing flak for leaking private meetings of its users.

E-learning has been on the rise in recent years, and online courses have become hugely popular, especially in the tech field.

For years, doctors have been treating patients by spending time with them and then detailing their condition in their medical records.

Just as concerns over data security continue to increase, a new report has revealed that Amazon's facial-recognition system, 'Rekognition' has become sophisticated enough to detect signs of fear on your face.

Microsoft appears to have banned certain software products for its employees.

In another Facebook-specific leak, personal data of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brands has been exposed online.

On Tuesday night, Amazon's shares briefly touched $2050.50, taking the e-commerce giant's market capitalization to $1 trillion, and making it the second company after Apple to touch the mark.

A mobile application for tracking missing and abandoned children was launched by Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi in New Delhi today.

Farmers will now get detailed information about the climatic conditions in their area allowing them better crop management.

They say if once bitten, people are twice shy, but this doesn't apply to Amazon.

US-based start-up TypingDNA has come up with a unique solution to verify user identity online based on how you type.

The year 2017 has been pretty lukewarm for Google. It launched several new products/services this year, including Pixel 2 smartphones, Pixelbook, smart speakers, etc. But, most of them lacked innovation.

Uber is facing another PR nightmare. It has emerged that the company concealed a massive data breach affecting 57mn users/riders for a whole year.

According to reports, Microsoft is now mulling on investing $50-100 million (Rs. 320-640 crore) to acquire a minority stake in ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which runs Ola, the home-grown ride hailing platform.

Kerala governor P Sathasivam, during a legislative Assembly session in Thiruvananthapuram detailed a plan to maintain a national sex offenders' registry.

Amazon posted third-quarter 2016 earnings 52 cents a share on revenue of $32.71 billion.

Cloud computing company Rackspace has announced that it has entered into a $4.3 billion cash deal with Apollo Global Management to become a private company.