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An Indian-origin researcher has warned that billions of computers and other devices across the globe are vulnerable today owing to a vulnerability named 'Spectre' that was first discovered in 2018 but is open to hackers again.Since 'Spectre' was discovered, the world's most talented computer scientists from industry and academia have worked on software patches and hardware defenses, confident they've been able to protect the most vulnerable points in the speculative execution process without slowing down computing speeds too much. However, researchers, led by Ashish Venkat at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science, UVA Engineering, discovered that computer processors are open to hackers again.They found a whole new way for hackers to exploit something called a "micro-op cache," which speeds up computing by storing simple commands and allowing the processor to fetch them quickly and early in the speculative execution ...

  Economic activity in India has suffered due to localised lockdowns during the second Covid-19 wave, but the impact is unlikely to be as devastating as last year. Experts suggest that the economic impact will depend on how fast India manages to contain the second wave. Here is all you need to know. An unprecedented rise in Covid-19 cases is likely to slow down India's economic recovery, but the overall impact will be milder in comparison to last year's devastation. Experts say that extent of economic loss during the second wave will primarily depend on how fast the chain of infections can be broken.        While Covid-19 containment rules are less stringent compared to last year’s nationwide lockdown, economic activity is gradually declining as more states opt for stricter norms to contain rapidly rising daily cases. At the moment, cases are rising sharply as India reported  nearly 3.8 lakh cases and over 3,000 deaths  on Thursday. MODERATE IMPACT ...

  Packaged consumer goods maker Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) said that the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic won’t hurt the company and the overall FMCG market as much as it did a year ago thanks to rural growth holding up and better preparedness on part of companies. “The rural growth has still held on and in the first two weeks of April we have seen the same momentum as we had witnessed in the March quarter,” said Sanjiv Mehta, Chairman and Managing Director of HUL, in a press conference after announcing the results for the quarter ended March. In the fourth quarter of FY21, HUL reported consolidated net profit growth of 44.8 percent from a year ago. Rural growth was strong throughout the last fiscal year as initially the virus spread was mostly in large cities. Despite the farmer protests, India is eyeing a record Rabi wheat output of 108 million tonnes, Reuters reported on Thursday. Still, there are some concerns that the pandemic spreading to rural India could derail gr...

  E-commerce, OTT, gaming witnessed over 100% growth in 2020: Report E-commerce, OTT and gaming witnessed more than cent percent growth in 2020, reveals PayU Insights Report that mapped the impact of COVID-19 & lockdown as seen through the year-on-year change in digital payments. The report further revealed that the pandemic gave a huge boost to online payments, seen in the 24% increase in the number of transactions and 23% increase in expenditure across the PayU platform, year on year. During the festive season (October-December 2020) there was a 45% spike in the number of online transactions vis-a-vis the same period in the previous year, said the report. The report also showed that PayU processed close to 100 million transactions, in a single month during the festive period (15 October – 15 November, 2020). The number of UPI transactions grew by 288% and expenditure through UPI grew a phenomenal 331% between 2019 and 2020. INDOOR ENTERTAINMENT RECEIVES BOOST As...