• NTT Research hosted a hackathon to create an attribute-based encryption application to protect images containing private or sensitive information. • A team from NTT Global in Belgium won the hackathon with their demonstration titled “Confidentiality in Images”. • Honorable mentions were given to demos created by NTT DATA teams from Italy and Romania. NTT…
Bullet Points: – Recently, a clone of XRP, called XRPC, has been catching the attention of investors. – XRP has had several cases of people posing as Ripple-associated entities and offering shoddy investment schemes. – In an event of bizarre Twitter account hacking, the XRP scam was also advertised on the official Twitter account of…
• Tencent shares have reached multi-month highs, thanks to regulatory easing from Chinese authorities. • The company’s shares have increased by nearly double the price points since October 2022. • Tencent is now one of the most valuable companies in the world, despite the market squeeze in the global financial industry. Tencent Holdings Ltd (HKG:…
• After an 18-month suspension, Didi was given approval to relaunch its app in China on Monday, 16th January 2023. • Didi was pulled down from China’s App Stores due to allegations of illegally collecting user data. • Didi responded by making “corrections” to its cross-border data practices in order to address the “national security…