This week's roundup looked at the top news stories from the Global B2B tech & telecoms industry.
The stories cover YouTube, Global Carriers, 5G, Cyber Attacks, AI, Quantum Research, ChatGPT, Telefonica and Social Media.
Here are our highlights:
YouTube has reinstated Donald Trump's account following a two-year suspension from the video-sharing platform. The move follows similar decisions taken by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Elon Musk-owned Twitter.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3LBuLK5
Carriers carrying IP voice calls into the US from outside now have to authenticate those calls before delivering them, or face fines of thousands of dollars per call.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3n6GshP
Virgin Media O2 has launched its first 4G and 5G services on sections of the Central and Northern Lines, enabling its customers to benefit from very high-speed mobile connectivity on the Tube network for the first time.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3FDfWTs
Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari SpA (RACE.MI) said on Monday that a hacker recently demanded ransom from the company related to certain client contact details, adding that the breach had no impact on the company's operations.
Read the full story here: https://reut.rs/42tfnVZ
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance in decades. In a blog post on Tuesday, he called it as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/40vlhEB
Ericsson Canada announced it has established a new Quantum research hub in Montreal as part of its cutting-edge global quantum research agenda.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Tz0cXm
A ChatGPT glitch allowed some users to see the titles of other users' conversations, the artificial intelligence chatbot's boss has said. On social media sites Reddit and Twitter, users had shared images of chat histories that they said were not theirs.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3LMzWqQ
Telefónica, through its Telefónica Soluciones area, and the North American company Qwilt have reached an agreement to implement a content distribution system based on the union of both companies’ technologies.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Z88M0r
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Utah has become the first state to require social media firms get parental consent for children to use their apps and verify users are at least 18. The governor said he signed the two sweeping measures to protect young people in the state.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3lIMp3V
Purdue University Airport, in collaboration with industry partners Ericsson and Saab, has announced the creation of a unique 5G network that will serve as a “lab to life” proving ground for academics, researchers and business to develop commercial solutions that can be replicated to improve operations and security at airports of all sizes.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Z6XSYU
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