In the unanimous judgement of the Supreme Court in the Puttaswamy case in 2017, right to privacy was declared a fundamental right. Going through the meandering preparation, creation of bill, joint parliamentary committee scrutiny etc the legal statute came into being in 2023 titled the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023. The agony has still […]
Having found its first IT service and financial roots in the Y2K gold rush, even with the passage of a quarter of a century, we remain fixated on the IT services model. It would be rather accurate to say that the Y2K crisis played a significant role in the growth of the Indian IT industry.
The fast evolving work of AI does not even give time to take a deep breath and think. That time would be enough for somebody to take the lead. When OpenAI believed it would still take a couple of years away to make AI mainstream, the conversational transformation of GPT-3.5, popular by the brand name
The nature, tenor, creation, development and execution of technology, more so software and IT can send shivers down anyone’s spine. The sector I am talking about is the governance sector. It controls the commanding heights of the economy, and the lowest taxpayer as well, it also covers from national security to the MSME ease of
It would sound like a weird question, it can become crazier, if I were to ask, are we in both post tech and post governance age? The question is neither nagging nor is it a riddle. This is the reality which we face day in and day out, something very similar to the post truth
Is gold smuggling rampant in this country? What are the known and well established routes? What are the modus operandi which are used on a regular basis? What is the nature of intelligence available against which the individual offenders, cartels and syndicates are mapped? What quantum of gold smuggling trade is done purely by solo
The world is completely in the pain businesses have been facing out of ransomware attacks. The attacks are not abating by any standards. On the contrary it is becoming more and more complex and specialised. The approach, response and success of law enforcement and the investigative agencies in ransomware investigation are nothing to boast of.
Ransom and kidnapping has been a part of conventional crime for times immemorial. It was being done in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes, but the variant it created in the digital age, to start with, defied all wisdom. Instead of a human being or group of them, what was held hostage
Gone are the days when we discussed car models or even the ups and downs of the Formula One celebrated drivers. The world post the launch of ChatGPT on the 30th of Nov. 2022 has been a different world. The release of DeepSeek R1 in Jan 2025, shook up the world again, bringing reasoning, cost,
The release of GPT-4.5 has been most awaited tech news of recent times, given the immense progress which Artificial Intelligence has made, since the onset of ChatGPT, which to start with was based on GPT-3.5. GPT technology of OpenAI has been at the core of bringing AI to the mainstream of today’s world. ChatGPT then
Getting hacked in the new normal, of late has often been said as truism. While this is true, even crazier things happen in the cyber world. The moral of the story is that in spite of the grandstanding proclamations, no one can ensure foolproof security, even with the best cloud vendor. If you are unlucky
