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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has flagged a “massive DDOS attack” on X that disrupted the airing of his interview with former Donald Trump. Musk was set to interview Trump this morning, marking his return to the microblogging platform ahead of the US Presidential elections due in November. In the worst case, the Tesla chief said, the platform would allow only a small number of live listeners and later post the conversation online. “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and…
Donald Trump is being interviewed on X by its billionaire owner Elon Musk — an influential supporter — as the Republican ex-president rejoins the platform following a lengthy absence. But most users are unable to tune in and are getting an error message on X. Musk, acknowledged the issue, said ,”There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.” The interview, scheduled to take place on Twitter Spaces, has been plagued by technical glitches, with over 25,000…
Billionaire entrepreneur and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk is currently interviewing Donald Trump on his social media network. The interview on Spaces, however, was delayed by more than 30 minutes due to a DDOS attack. DDoS attack means “Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack”, a cybercrime in which the attacker floods a server with internet traffic to prevent users from accessing connected online services and sites. The interview could provide Trump an opportunity to seize the limelight at a time when his Democratic rival for the US presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris, has erased his lead in opinion polls. The…
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is interviewing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the X social media network today. The interview could provide Trump an opportunity to seize the limelight at a time his Democratic rival for the US presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris, has erased his lead in opinion polls and energised Democratic voters with a series of high-energy rallies. The Trump campaign has called it the “interview of the century”. “This is unscripted with no limits on subject matter, so should be highly entertaining!” 53-year-old Musk, who has an estimated net worth of $235 billion, posted in a…
My Dear Ira, All set for your second year of studies in Edmonton, I hope. It’s ‘Summer Time’ in Canada in more ways than one, isn’t it? The Paris Olympics 2024 are just over, and 17-year-old Summer McIntosh must surely be the toast of the nation and all over the social media feeds of young students like you. What a swimmer! By herself, Summer won 3 Gold medals and 1 Silver! If she were a country, she alone would be ranked 28th on the medal tally table. For perspective, India, with 1 Silver and 5 Bronze medals, is at 71.…
A 13-year-old Chinese girl scripted history when she performed Bharatanatyam “Arangetram” in China, a landmark in the journey of the ancient Indian dance form that is gaining popularity in the neighbouring country. Lei Muzi made her solo dance debut here on Sunday in front of the celebrated Bharatanatyam dancer Leela Samson, Indian diplomats and a large audience of Chinese fans. For ardent Chinese fans of Indian classical art and dance forms who devoted their lives to learning and performing them for decades, her debut was a moment of history and a milestone as it was the first-ever “Arangetram” — Bharatnatyam’s…
The shocking murder of a hearing and speech impaired man from Mumbai has been solved with the help of a hearing and speech impaired man young man, the son of a police constable. In what was termed the “love quadrangle murder” and ‘suitcase murder”, the body of 30-year-old Arshadali Sadiqueali Shaikh was found in a suitcase in Dadar station on August 5. After a huge brawl over a woman in a purported love quadrangle, two friends of the victim, Jai Pravin Chawda and Shivjeet Surendra Singh, had allegedly clobbered him death with a hammer. They had stuffed his body in a…
More chilling details have emerged in the rape and murder of the trainee doctor in Kolkata, with the post-mortem report indicating that the accused had hit her so hard that the glasses of her spectacles shattered, shards piercing her eyes. The 31-year-old post-graduate trainee, who was working at the city’s renowned state government-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, was raped and murdered inside a seminar hall in the institution and her body was found on Friday morning. Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer working with the Kolkata Police, has been arrested for the crime. The post-mortem report, which was handed…
The government today said it will hold further consultations and publish a fresh draft of the Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill after certain provisions of the previous draft raised concerns among online content creators as it sought to club them with OTT or digital news broadcasters, bringing them under the ambit of the ministry’s Content and Advertisement Code. The previous draft bill and explanatory notes were placed in the public domain in November last year. Media bodies such as DigiPub and the Editors Guild of India claimed that digital media organisations and civil society associations were not consulted on the move.…
A health ministry official, Suhrita Paul, will replace Sandip Ghosh as the Principal of RG Kar Medical College. Mr Ghosh — who said he was stepping down from the post and the government job following the rape-murder of the 31-year-old doctor — has been appointed the principal of the Calcutta Medical College, the city’s top teaching hospital. Ajay Kumar Ray, who was heading the institution, has been transferred to the health ministry. The rapid changes were set in motion in after the rape-murder, which has triggered a storm not just in the state, but medical establishments across the country. Cutting…