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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...

CoWIN website hacked, 150 million user data leaked? Centre denies claims, calls reports fake

Some reports on Thursday claimed that CoWIN portal, which is used to book vaccine slots in India, has been hacked. These reports further claimed that in this hacking, personal data of 150 million Indians have been leaked and up for sale. Soon after these reports started going viral and panicked citizens, the government of India rubbished the claim and called it fake.

Denying reports of CoWIN portal being hacked, the Health Ministry and the chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC) said CoWIN “stores all vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment.”

Centre denies claims of CoWIN hack

Commenting on the matter the Indian government said, “there have been some unfounded media reports of the CoWIN platform being hacked. Prima facie, these reports appear to be fake.”

EGVAC Chairman RS Sharma informed citizens that CoWIN data is not shared with any entity outside of the system. “Our attention has been drawn towards the news circulating on social media about the alleged hacking of CoWIN system. In this connection we wish to state that CoWIN stores all the vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment,” Sharma said.

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Sharma further added, “no CoWIN data is shared with any entity outside the CoWIN environment. The data being claimed as having been leaked such as geo-location of beneficiaries is not even collected by CoWIN.”

CoWIN portal helps Indians to check and book COVID-19 slots across the country. Unlike what is rumoured, there is no CoWIN app available for users, there’s just the portal. Booking a slot on CoWIN first is mandatory for everyone and only then they must head to respective COVID vaccine center.

Currently, the Health Ministry and the EGVAC are getting the matter investigated by the Computer Emergency Response Team of MietY.



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