Spotify has begun rolling out a new artificial intelligence-powered feature called “Prompted Playlist” in the United States and Canada, marking a major shift in how users discover and consume music on the platform. The feature allows Premium subscribers to generate customised playlists by simply describing what they want to hear…
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Microsoft Shuts Office Library, Cuts News Access After 15,000 Layoffs
Months after laying off nearly 15,000 employees worldwide, Microsoft has quietly taken another step that reflects a deeper cultural and strategic shift inside the company. The technology giant has shut down its internal office library and discontinued access to several paid news and research publications, ending a long-standing resource that…
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Microsoft for $134B Fraud
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit demanding up to $134 billion from AI lab OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, alleging that the companies defrauded him by deviating from their non-profit origins. Musk’s legal team submitted the damages request on January 16, 2026, following a federal judge’s rejection of OpenAI and…
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Elon Musk’s X Unveils $1 Million Creator Payout Plan
Elon Musk-owned social media platform X has announced a significant overhaul of its creator monetization strategy, pledging a $1 million payout for the top-performing long-form article in its next payout cycle. Calling 2026 “the year of the creator,” the company has urged writers, journalists and digital creators to “earn a…
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UPI Powers 49% of Global Real-Time Payments
New Delhi : India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been recognised as the world’s largest retail fast-payment system by transaction volume, according to international assessments cited in a parliamentary reply on 8 December 2025. The International Monetary Fund’s June 2025 note on growing retail digital payments acknowledged UPI’s scale, while…
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India Mandates Sanchar Saathi, Privacy Fears Rise
The Union government has directed smartphone manufacturers to ship all new handsets sold in India with the state-run Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app pre-installed within 90 days, a move aimed at strengthening telecom security that has drawn sharp criticism from privacy advocates and raised compliance questions for global phone makers. What…
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India Hosts Workshop on Veterinary Bio-Waste Management
India Hosts Workshop on Veterinary Bio-Waste Management The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD), Government of India, convened a National Consultation Workshop on “Veterinary Bio-Waste Management for Sustainable Livestock and Health” in New Delhi on 24 November 2025. The event was organised under the Pandemic Fund Project titled “Animal…
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Cloudflare Outage Hits X, ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity
A massive Cloudflare outage on Tuesday evening triggered widespread service disruptions across several high-traffic digital platforms, including X, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Spotify, and multiple global websites. Users worldwide reported persistent 500 error messages, failed loading screens, and broken dashboards as the internet infrastructure giant acknowledged a major internal malfunction.Cloudflare, which…
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Microsoft Azure Outage Disrupts Global Services
New Delhi / Global, Oct 29, 2025 Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure suffered a major global outage on Wednesday that knocked large swathes of services offline including Microsoft 365 productivity apps, Xbox services and several company websites and airline apps as engineers worked to roll back a problematic configuration change. 0…
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AWS Outage Disrupts Fortnite, Alexa and Major Services
A major disruption at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has caused widespread downtime across several high-profile online services, including Fortnite, Alexa and Snapchat. The incident primarily originated in the US-EAST-1 region, with ripple effects noted globally. Services impacted and scale of disruption According to AWS’s status dashboard, the issue began with…