Diwali gifting market; Uber faces network breach

Indian govt calls for new law for online gaming                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 [Open in browser]( [Diwali gifting market; Uber faces network breach]() Indian govt calls for new law for online gaming Sep 16   [SAVE]()   A fresh edition of nextbigwhat newsletter, a link-less newsletter that brings you all the important tech news, summarized for you. --------------------------------------------------------------- Over 5 crore items are purchased for gifting during annual Diwali season: CAIT - Estimatedly more than 5 crore items including a range of articles are purchased during every Diwali festival for gifting purposes, said traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders, urging people to buy souvenirs inscribed with ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, celebrating 75 years of independence. Over 40,000 Zoom users reported connectivity issues; Problem fixed by the platform - After receiving more than 40,000 complaints regarding problems while working on the video-conferencing platform, Zoom assured its users that it is actively working to resolve the problem. - Within an hour, the platform made another announcement to inform that the issue has been fixed and users may not face the difficulty anymore. Uber faces network breach; investigation by company underway - Uber is responding to a cybersecurity incident after it was reported that a hack had breached the company’s network and forced it to take several internal communications and engineering systems offline. - A hacker compromised an employee’s workplace messaging Slack app and then used it to send a message to Uber employees announcing that it had suffered a data breach... Subscribe to NextBigWhat Shorts to read the rest. Become a paying subscriber of NextBigWhat Shorts to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. [Upgrade to paid]( A subscription gets you: Subscriber-only posts and full archive Exclusive 40% discounts to nextbigwhat events (considered the best in the industry) Post comments and join the community © 2022 NextBigWhat Inc 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 [Unsubscribe]() [Get the app]( writing](