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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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TikTok Pro scam: Here is why installing the fake app is a bad idea

After the Indian government banned TikTok along with 58 other Chinese apps in the country, a lot of users had nowhere to get their daily short video-based content feed from. While many Indian alternatives to TikTok took this opportunity to rise and shine, scammers have also made the most of the void by creating fake TikTok-like apps. One of the recent examples of this is a hoax called ‘TikTok Pro’.

As per many reports, scammers are using SMS and phishing attacks to attract users into downloading an app called TikTok Pro. The scammers are using the ban on the app as an opportunity to populate another possibly malicious app that is being sold off as the successor to the original TikTok. The SMS and WhatsApp messages received by people claim that the new fake app is the original TikTok, rebranded for India.

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“Enjoy Tiktok Videos and also make Create Videos again. Now TikTok is only Available in (TikTok pro) So Download from below,” goes the message. Text like this extract are often followed by a link to to download the TikTok Pro APK file. Needless to say, visiting the links in any such messages are definitely a bad, risky idea.

However, thanks to some people who actually went ahead and tried the fake application, we know this is definitely a scamming attempt. Users are met with an icon that resembles the original TikTok. Permissions for the phone’s camera and mic are then asked for. The app, however, doesn’t do anything once you grant these permissions. It just stays on the phone, with likely some form of malware at work in the background.

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The fake app is not available on the Google Play Store, which is the only place you should be downloading apps from. This is the first red flag against most scamming apps that claim to be newer, modified,  or ‘pro’ versions.



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