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Serum Institute of India (SII) dispatched millions of doses of Covishield vaccine to multiple locations across India.Good morning!Early yesterday morning, Serum Institute of India began dispatching the first batches of its COVID-19 vaccine Covishield to several cities across India, ahead of the government’s January 16 immunisation drive to 30 crore people. On Tuesday morning, as the temperature-controlled trucks loaded with Covishield, the Indian variant of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, left the SII gates in Pune, CEO Adar Poonawalla rightly called it a “historic moment” and an emotional one for him and his team.The excitement and sense of purpose was palpable as the airlines, state and central government officials, local police, and airport and local authorities all came together to ensure the safe transportation of the vaccines in multiple locations.They were all one with Adar Poonawalla in recognising this as a historic moment in the fight against the coronavirus.With Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling it the world’s largest inoculation programme, the government has already ordered 11 million doses, which will be first administered to frontline and healthcare workers. Tesla in IndiaTesla has finally arrived in India. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle giant has made its much-awaited entry and registered its India subsidiary — Tesla India…

Valkyrae, once the fastest-growing streamer in the world, overtakes Pokimane as data shows she was the most-watched female streamer in 2020. Rachel Hofstetter, better known as Valkyrae, relocated from Twitch to YouTube at the start of 2020 and it has proven to be an advantageous move for the streamer. The start of 2021 has been rocky due to OfflineTV Rust server drama, but the streamer most recently received a surprise birthday party while in-game with friends. Overall, Valkyrae appears to not be slowing down, and recent streaming data proves that. Social distancing and quarantining played a part in the blossoming success of the streamer, although most of it is due to Valkyrae's Among Us streams. Among Us was one of the quickest-growing titles in terms of popularity throughout 2020, which helped Valkyrae become the fastest-growing streamer in the world. Since then, she has established herself as a variety streamer, catering to her fans and the wider streaming community by playing what they want to see. Almost a year after her move to YouTube, a report from Stream Hatchet shows that Valkyrae is the most-viewed female streamer with over 23.6 million hours watched total, just beating out Twitch streamer Imane "Pokimane" Anys. What's particularly remarkable is the small margin by which…

Happy Hob is one of the most legendary Souls streamers around, but a recent failed no hit run is going to cost him more than just time. The Happy Hob is one of the most prolific Souls streamers around, known for being the first player to ever complete the God Run, a challenge he created himself that requires the player to beat Demon's Souls, the Dark Souls trilogy, and Bloodborne without taking a single hit. With such an accomplishment under his belt, he felt confident taking a certain bet. Last year, The Happy Hob agreed to attempt to complete 12 no-hit runs throughout the duration of 2020. The final one he had to complete was a run of Bloodborne without getting hit, a challenge that frequently gave him trouble during his God Run days. Continue scrolling to keep reading Click the button below to start this article in quick view. Having completed 11 of the 12 no hit runs for the year, Happy Hob got to work on trying to clear Bloodborne in the same fashion. Unfortunately, fate was not in his favor, and an enemy managed to land a hit on him as it was dying. As the deadline for the bet was fast approaching, The Happy Hob accepted his fate.…

Content from one of the Ukraine-based networks that was removed Facebook By David Cohen 4 hours ago Coordinated inauthentic behavior kept Facebook busy in December 2020, as the social network removed 17 networks, setting a new monthly high.The social network said in a Newsroom post that it removed a total of 1,957 Facebook accounts, 707 Instagram accounts, 156 pages and 727 groups.Facebook said at least 12 of the accounts targeted audiences in their own countries, while at least five were focused on people outside of their countries.At least 12 of the networks were also focused on elections, primarily but not exclusively on behalf of domestic actors.At least seven of the networks removed by Facebook last month ran pages that posed as news entities sharing local updates about current events.At least 10 of the 17 networks in the December 2020 report were discovered in collaborations with researchers, investigative journalists and local civil society organizations.Finally, Facebook said the “vast majority” of networks it removed in December were detected in the early stages of building their audiences.A complete report is available here, and details on each of the 17 networks follow: Iran: Four accounts primarily targeting Arabic-, English- and French-speaking audiences globally, centered…

Coty Kish (Columbia County Sheriff's Office)LAKE CITY, Fla. – A 26-year-old Lake City man accused of exchanging explicit photos with a minor was arrested Monday inside the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office building following an interview with detectives.Detectives started investigating Coty Kish after the Sheriff’s Office received a complaint from a person who went through a cellphone and discovered Snapchat messages between Kish and a minor that were deemed sexual in nature, according to an arrest report, which was redacted to protect the identity of the minor and the person who filed the complaint.The report states that detectives learned Kish and the minor, who disclosed being 15 years old to Kish, exchanged explicit photos on Snapchat. The investigation also revealed that Kish had been in contact with other people on Snapchat who are possibly minors, the report states.When a detective spoke with the minor about the communication with Kish, the minor said they met on Instagram, the arrest report states. According to the report, Kish said he was a 16-year-old student who attended Branford High School, which is around 24 miles from Lake City. The report also states that although the two never physically met in person, they planned to meet…

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A Chinese data-management firm SocialArks’ proclaims itself to be a “cross-border social media management company that solves the problems of brand building, marketing, social customer management in China’s foreign trade sector.” This company has recently become a target of cybercrime when personal and public details of about more than 214 million social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn users, which may include celebrities, and influencers got leaked through a faulty database and server.SocialArks’ owns a database called ElasticSearch, and this misconfigured database contained personally identifiable information of users from social media platforms. Researchers at Safety Detectives found the affected server, which is hosted by Tencent during a routine security check. As per the researchers, this server that got exposed on the internet without any security key, encryption, or passwords has all the data saved in segmented indices to save all the information from different social media sources.The researchers found out that all the users’ data that was present on that server in the affected database was all scraped from various social media platforms. While web-scraping is allowed to some extent, platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. do not allow it. Hence, this was a violation of the guidelines of these…

J.D. Prose, USA TODAY Network - PA State Capitol Bureau  |  Beaver County Times A Republican state legislator wants plaques describing the criminal histories of former Pennsylvania House Speakers returned to their official portraits in the state Capitol after they were removed under former House Speaker Mike Turzai.“Criminal convictions that occurred while these politicians served the taxpayers should not be hidden from the public,” state Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-Lawrence County, said in a statement on Tuesday. “Good or bad, visitors to the Capitol should have the opportunity to be educated on the full history of their government.”Bernstine was embroiled in his own controversy last fall when the USA TODAY Network reported on Snapchat video clips he shared on his now-deleted account that showed him giving his 5-year-old son a cigar and encouraging the boy to “hit it harder,” as well as having his son answer a question with a vulgar word for vagina.More: Pa. Rep. Bernstine posted on Snapchat enticing his son, 5, to smoke cigar. He was re-electedMore: Embattled state Rep. Aaron Bernstine sees county GOP committee yank endorsementMore: Pa. House leaders call on state Rep. Bernstine to resign after story on Snapchat videosAlthough both Republican and Democratic House leaders…

Gabriel Monte   | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Lubbock police recently arrested two people accused of taunting a man on social media after robbing him at gunpoint hours before. Eric Izaiah Maxwell, 18, was booked about 1 a.m. Sunday on a charge of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony that carries a punishment of five years to life in prison, according to jail records. A juvenile suspect was also arrested and taken to the Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center. Maxwell's charge stems from a Lubbock police investigation after a man told police Maxwell and another teenager robbed him at gunpoint after arranging to meet with him to sell his smartphone. The man told police he was contacted by the teen on Snapchat where he listed his phone for sale. The two arranged to meet at the Woodspring Suites parking lot in the 2300 block of West Loop 289, according to a police report.The man said the teen exited the hotel from an east side door and his accomplice, later identified as Maxwell, stood in the doorway to keep the door from closing. The man said he handed his phone to the teen, who drew a pistol from his waistband and aimed it at him. The man said he fled to…

As the world adjusts to a Twitter without @realdonaldtrump, the next big question is: “Now what?" Major tech platforms, long accused of giving President Donald Trump special treatment not allotted to regular users, have shown him the door in the wake of his incitement of violence by supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He’s gone from Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat — even Shopify. But in many ways, booting the president was the easy part. Will companies now hold other world leaders to the same standard? Will they wade further into deciding what is and isn't allowed on their platforms, potentially alienating large swaths of their user base? Will all this lead to further online splintering, pushing those flirting with extreme views to fringe sites and secret chat groups? Although they've long sought to remain neutral, Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms are slowly waking up to the active role they and their algorithms have played in shaping a modern world filled with polarized, angry groups and huge factions falling for bogus conspiracies and misinformation about science, politics and medicine. “What we’re seeing is a shift from the platforms from a stance of free-speech absolutism, towards an understanding of speech…