Top Tech News: 9th April, 2018

Microsoft expanded 'Project Sangam' to Middle East, Africa

On Monday, Microsoft announced expansion of the capabilities of its Cloud-powered 'Project Sangam' to the Middle East and Africa.

'Project Sangam' is a cloud-hosted platform that leverages Azure services and professional networking platform LinkedIn to support new entrants to the job market, enabling key stakeholders across the skilling ecosystem find the right talent and was launched in India by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last year.

Nadella launched 'Project Sangam' to help the Indian government to not only train but also assist people get jobs via LinkedIn that was acquired by the company for $26.2 billion in an all cash deal in 2016.

Facebook will provide researchers with new data to study election interference

Facebook announced a new research initiative partnering with seven prominent nonprofit foundations to study the effect of social media on elections.

Under the new initiative, social science researchers will propose research projects for peer review based on a set of general research goals.

If a proposal is approved, the researchers will receive the anonymized data from Facebook and accompanying funding from the foundations.

Airtel offers 2GB Daily Data at Rs.499 With the validity of 82 Days

Airtel has launched a new recharge pack with validity of 82 days and 2GB of daily data allocation for prepaid users.

With its Rs.499 recharge, Airtel is offering bundled local and STD calls, free roaming and 100 SMSes per day along with 2GB data each day. This amounts to 164GB of 4G/3G data provided to users.

Intel discontinues its Remote Keyboard App for iOS and Android due to vulnerabilities

Intel has decided to kill the Intel Remote Keyboard app for Android and iOS devices in order to protect user devices from three vulnerabilities, one of which was classified as 'critical'.

The chip maker has also issued a Product Discontinuation notice to tell the users to uninstall the app from their devices.

As per the security advisory, all versions of the Intel Remote Keyboard app have been spotted with three distinct vulnerabilities. Two of the vulnerabilities, listed as CVE-2018-3645 and CVE-2018-3638, have received a severity score of 'high', while the other one, titled CVE-2018-3645 has been listed as 'critical'. The critical issue essentially allows a local attacker to inject keystrokes into another remote keyboard session.

The app was notably launched by the company in 2015 to let users wirelessly control their Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) and Intel Compute Stick computers and transform their smartphones or tablets into a virtual keyboard and mouse.