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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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Mark Zuckerberg uses WhatsApp rival messaging app Signal suggests leaked Facebook data

The recent Facebook data leaks amassed controversy for the social network platform where the personal data of 533 million Facebook users was dumped on the internet for the world to see. Not even company CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s data was spared and as per a recent revelation by a cybersecurity expert, Zuckerberg uses WhatsApp’s rival Signal to communicate with his peers.

Reports suggest that the leaked data includes Zukerberg’s phone number, Facebook user ID, personal details like location, marriage details and birth date. What is shocking for many is that Zuckerberg doesn’t use his own company messaging platform rather uses a rival end-to-end encrypted app.

“Mark Zuckerberg also respects his own privacy, by using a chat app that has end-to-end encryption and isn’t owned by @facebook,” Dave Walker, a security expert wrote on Twitter.

“This is the number associated with his account from the recent Facebook leak,” Walker posted along with a screenshot of Zuckerberg’s leaked phone number which mentioned, “Mark Zuckerberg is on Signal.”

Even Signal’s official Twitter handle trolled Mark Zuckerberg after this information came to light.

Facebook users at risk

Of the 53.3 crore Facebook users whose personal data was leaked online, 61 lakh were Indians. Though Facebook has claimed that the data in question is “old data”, this still makes a lot of its users vulnerable to cybercrimes.

“This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019,” a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying in the report.

“All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free. This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked,” tweeted Alon Gal, CTO of security firm Hudson Rock.

The WhatsApp rival

Signal was launched back in 2014 as a rival to popular messaging app WhatsApp and brings to its users similar features to the Facebook-owned messaging app.

Signal was also at a time the number 1 free app on the Google Play Store after WhatsApp updated its privacy policy which did not go down well with its users. Its controversial new terms of service will come into effect from May 2021. Signal is gaining immense popularity owing to its simplicity and focus on privacy.



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