A PILOT project to kick off an app called “Open Sky” for those who want to fly drones in Bangkok and nearby areas to conveniently request permission to do so was unveiled today (Sept. 1), Matichon newspaper said. This project is a collaboration between Aeronautical Radio of Thailand Ltd (Aerothai),the Civil Aviation Authority of
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Pegasus phone spyware used to target 30 Thai activists, cyber watchdogs say
By Reuters and published by CNA plus The FCPA Blog AT LEAST 30 Thai political activists have been hacked using Israeli surveillance spyware Pegasus, according to a joint investigation by human rights and cyber monitoring groups, which suspect the attacks were launched locally. The probe by Thai human rights group iLaw, Southeast Asian internet watchdog
Read more100,000 AIS customers hit after attack by hackers
ADVANCED Info Service Plc (AIS) said today (Feb. 18) that 100,000 of its customers’ data had been leaked after employees’ computers were hacked but correction had been made with the cell phone carrier’s system and business operations not compromised, Thai Rath newspaper said. Mr. Prathana Leelapanang, CEO of AIS, said investigation of the cybercrime revealed
Read moreThai homecare platform Saijai targets aging demographic
THAILAND’S online homecare start-up Saijai is eyeing the county’s ageing population of 16.3 million as a prime market opportunity. The greying of Southeast Asia’s second largest economy is on a fast growth trajectory, and it will account for 30 percent of the market by 2030. The needs of an ageing Thai society are shifting
Read moreTelegram outage reported worldwide, thousands affected
By Channel NewsAsia Singapore – Users of popular messaging service Telegram reported outages worldwide today (Jan. 17). The outage began at about 9. 15 p.m. in Thailand (10.15 p.m. in Singapore). According to user-submitted reports to Downdetector.com, the service appeared to be down in various countries, including Indonesia, India, Australia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, the United Arab
Read moreBill Gates says the metaverse will host most of your office meetings within ‘two or three years’
By Tom Huddleston Jr., published by CNBC, distributed by MSN.com AS Bill Gates reflected on what he calls his “most unusual and difficult year,” the billionaire also looked ahead to 2022 and beyond with no shortage of optimism — including when it comes to our “more digitised future.” In a year-end post on Gates’ personal
Read moreFacebook will fuel further unrest, whistleblower says
By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia London – Facebook will fuel more violent unrest around the world because of the way its algorithms are designed to promote divisive content, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British parliament today (Oct. 25) Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team who has turned whistleblower,
Read morePower bank bursts into flames after being left in vehicle
POLICE issued a warning to be more careful after a power bank left in the front of a pick-up truck in Phetchaburi province burst into flames and damaged the vehicle but fortunately there were no injuries, Sanook.com said today (Oct. 9). Emergency Call Centre 191 Phetchaburi’s web page urged people to be more careful
Read moreInstagram went down globally for some hours, services now restored
By India Today and Siam Rath INSTAGRAM went down in several parts of the world due to unclear issues today (Sept. 2) including here in Thailand but services are now running again, India Today and Siam Rath newspaper said. According to Downdetector, the platform that keeps track of internet outages, the Instagram services went down
Read moreHackers steal $600m in major cryptocurrency heist
By BBC HACKERS have stolen some $600m (£433m) in what appears to be one the largest cryptocurrency heists ever. Blockchain site Poly Network said hackers had exploited a vulnerability in its system and taken thousands of digital tokens such as Ether. In a letter posted on Twitter, it urged the thieves to “establish communication and
Read moreMultiple global websites down amid widespread Internet outage
By Channel NewsAsia and agencies SEVERAL international websites were down today (June 8), including Amazon, Reddit, CNN, The Guardian and The New York Times. Error messages appeared on the websites at around 1000 GMT (5pm Thai time). Some reports pointed to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas
Read moreInsurer AXA hit by ransomware attack, lots of Thai data stolen
By BleepingComputer.com and Sanook.com BRANCHES of insurance giant AXA based in Thailand (Krungthai-AXA), Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have been struck by a ransomware cyber attack with 3 terabytes of data stolen including lots of personal information of Thai and other clients, BleepingComputer.com and Sanook.com said this morning (May 17) The compromised data
Read moreAmazon changes app logo that ‘resembles Adolf Hitler’
By Cristina Criddle, BBC AMAZON has quickly changed its main shopping-app logo, after commentators said the recent redesign made it look like Adolf Hitler. Launched in January, the icon depicts a strip of blue tape over an Amazon “smile” logo. But some observers said it resembled a toothbrush moustache, associated with the Nazi dictator.
Read moreTemple of Zoom: 200,000 Thai Buddhists mark holy day via video link
By Artorn Pookasook and Athit Perawongmetha, Reuters, published by Yahoo! News MORE than 200,000 Buddhist devotees gathered via Zoom video link yesterday to attend an annual prayer and lantern ritual held in Thailand to mark Makha Bucha Day, one of the religion’s holiest holidays. The ritual began with a prayer in Pali, the language of
Read moreFacebook has ‘tentatively friended’ us again, Australia says
By Reuters Staff, published by US News & World Report Canberra – Facebook Inc is back at the negotiating table, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said today (Feb. 20) after the tech giant this week blocked news on its site in the country. Facebook’s abrupt decision to stop Australians from sharing news on the site
Read moreDitched WhatsApp for Telegram? Your secret chats might not be as safe as you thought
By Aaron Brown, Express SECURE messaging platform Telegram is a little less secure than first thought, thanks to a new glitch that allowed bad actors to access self-destructing audio and video messages long after the sender and recipient believed these messages were permanently deleted. The bug, which impacted the macOS version of the messaging service,
Read moreRobert F. Kennedy Jr. has been banned from Instagram
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Instagram on Wednesday took down the account of controversial anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, said in a statement. Kennedy, the son of late former US Attorney General, US
Read moreSpaceX to get humans to Mars in 2026
Elon Musk is still confident that 2026 will be the year that his space company SpaceX lands humans on Mars, where he hopes to build a human settlement. In a wide-ranging interview with the audio-only Clubhouse app on Sunday, Musk said it will take “five and a half years” before a crewed mission of SpaceX’s Starship rocket
Read moreStar Wars tensions rise as rival Mars probes on collision course
The skies above Mars will witness some startling aeronautical displays in the next few days when three rival space robot probes reach the red planet after journeying for millions of miles across space. The United Arab Emirates’ probe Hope orbiter will arrive first, on Tuesday, (tomorrow) followed by China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft the next day. Finally,
Read moreTik-Tok star rates men on sex
A woman has become a TikTok star after creating a series about all the men she’s slept with – including a ranking order of their performance. They say you’ll never forget your first kiss – but after that, not all romantic encounters are quite so life-changing. Well in a bid to remember each
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