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Hackers demanding money to return your data is common. But hackers demanding policy changes from a corporation is unheard of. A ransomware group called BlackCat which claimed responsibility for hacking Reddit’s systems earlier this year did just that. The hacker group is now demanding what Reddit moderators and users who have been up in arms over. A change to Reddit’s recently announced API pricing policy.

The conversational artificial intelligence tool seems to be taking over the world—and that now includes the Chinese stock market. Baidu and Alibaba are both jumping on the advanced-chatbot bandwagon. The technology could be a big deal in China—but that comes with its own dangers. Let's talk about the ways in which Chinese businesses are jumping on the AI bandwagon and the effects that this is having on the stock market.

In May, PE firm Carlyle announced a deal to acquire up to 74% stake in SeQuent Scientific for ₹1,580 crore, while US giant KKR in July agreed to acquire about 54% stake in Mumbai-based JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals for ₹3,100 crore

The regulator cited shortages of the drug in India and rising costs of raw materials imported from China as reasons for increasing the ceiling price using emergency powers under Paragraph 19 of the Drug (Price Control) Order

However, restrictions on paracetamol, a crucial anti-pyretic, continueThese active pharmaceutical ingredients were manufactured in the Hubei province of China, the epicentre of the coronavirus infection

The investment was planned to be utilized to grow L&T IDF’s loan book across a number of infra subsectorsOn Saturday evening, L&T Finance informed stock exchanges that the transaction has been called off

The move aims to ensure drug availability to reduce the impact of the outbreakEnvironment ministry directions have been sent to the CPCB and the Expert Appraisal Committees of all states and UTs

API is a code written to protocols that allows disparate systems and applications to talk to one another with minimal interventionThe idea of APIs came from the virtualization of hardware and cloud-based infrastructure as a service

With around eight million users, Bengaluru-based Postman, which helps organize APIs, has become a category leaderSoftware developers across the world faced the problem of managing a host of APIs and collaborating seamlessly

All the four consumer internet platforms say they immediately fixed the flaws once they were notifiedThe security flaws have exposed personal data of at least 200 million customers