Oh, what a week this has been—Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and so much more before the holiday season starts!
Be it Cyclone Fengal in Tamil Nadu or the snowpocalypse in Seoul, weather is becoming quite unpredictable this year.
But the good news does not stop pouring in, such as Gukesh winning the first match against Ding, Wage inequality decreasing, and an Indian traveller getting Pakistani help in Iran.
Now it’s time for your weekly fill of the top 10 news stories of the week that will make you the most informed person in any of your groups!
Shall we start?
No or Delayed OTPs from 1st December?
OTP frauds have been wreaking havoc in India, and TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has a solution for it!
TRAI wants traceability for all text messages, which would help in ensuring where the OTP went and thus track the fraudsters.
And the telecom service providers like BSNL, Airtel, Jio, and Vodafone now have to abide by it.
If they don’t do it, then there might be some OTP issues, although TRAI has confirmed that no such thing will happen!
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Google is facing a probe by CCI!
Google is getting burnt side of the stick wherever it goes.
Last week it was the US DOJ, and now it’s India’s CCI, or Competition Commission of India.
A probe has been entered in CCI by the online gaming platform WinZO against Google, and it states that Google does not allow real money-winning games on the Play Store.
Thus, the users of WinZO have to download these games from the website.
CCI has asked its investigative arm to look into the matter and submit their findings within 60 days!
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Google News of the Week
Are you ready to be surprised by Google this weekend?
Well, they have two surprises, and they are:
The Page Experience of 2025
Google launched its Page experience update in 2021-2022, and it is coming into effect by the end of 2024!
Pages with,
- High performance
- High Core Web Vital score
- Responsive Design
- User Friendliness
- Lesser AMP or accelerated mobile pages
- HTTPS and HSTS
- Lesser Ads above the fold
- No regional content choice or intrusive overlays above the fold
- And more will get more preference on Google SEPRs (search engine result pages) in 2025!
So, get with it now, when the users are busy elsewhere!
Recommendations for Google Search Console
Google is providing recommendations to make your websites better in Google Search Console after the feature was tested in August.
If you are seeing them, then your website needs to work on it, whereas if you don’t see them, then your website is perfect!
So, check out Google Search Console for your website asap!
Microsoft News of the Week
Microsoft rarely lets its users sleep in peace nowadays!
And there are two more cautionary news stories from Microsoft that might concern you.
They are as follows:
Personal Data used for AI training?
Users were worried that their data was being allegedly used by Microsoft to train its AI.
But Microsoft has clarified on November 27th that they are not using user data for AI training from Microsoft 365.
This issue hyped up when Microsoft launched Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11.
450 million Windows Users Under Threat
Microsoft has provided a USD 12 billion solution, but even that doesn’t protect all the users!
The thing is, Windows 10 support is going out on October 14, 2025, and this makes Windows 10 users susceptible to attacks.
What do Windows Users do now?
- Update as soon as you can to Windows 11.
- Pay USD 30 (one-time fee) and have 12-month extended support for Windows 10.
- Buy a new PC in 2025.
Since you do have time till next October, make your decision appropriately!
OpenAI vs. Artists; the battle intensifies for Sora
Artists, actors, and other sorts of creators have been against OpenAI since the beginning, and the accidental leak of OpenAI’s Sora further intensified it!
The beta testers of Sora (some artists) leaked it online for 3 hours using Hugging Face Space.
Questions have been raised about,
- AI Ethics,
- Corporate Accountability, and
- Artist Rights.
The issue can be properly analyzed only when Sora is officially released!
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Instagram DMs to get WhatsApp-like features!
Instagram is becoming more user-friendly!
It has launched some new features in DMs or direct messages, such as,
- Stickers
17 new sticker packs along with 300+ stickers!
- Nickanames
Give your friends and yourselves nicknames in DMs.
- Live Location
Just like Snapchat and WhatsApp, you can now share live locations in DMs.
Enjoy the new Instagram experience, and do tell us how you found it.
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Godrej undergoes Digital Transformation
When foreign companies can do it, why not an Indian company?
As per the latest news by Economic Times, Godrej has revamped their brand identity!
They launched a new purple logo on November 28th, which represents,
- Sustainable Innovation,
- Confidence, and
- Dynamism.
They used to have three colours, which were not that consistent and hampered their growth.
They hope to cater new worlds to their stakeholders and customers with this new logo.
Godrej wishes to actively participate and contribute towards the Viksit Bharat by 2047 mission!
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NASA’s ambitious plan to make us all Billionaires!
Who wouldn’t want to be a billionaire?
Well, NASA has got your back!
An asteroid named 16 Psyche, discovered in 1852 by the late Mr. Annibale de Gasparis, whose worth is estimated around USD 10,026,000,000,000,000,00 or 8 quintillion pounds.
It has rare minerals like,
- Palladium
- Platinum
- And many more metals.
NASA’s mission to Psyche is using the spacecraft named Psyche and is on its 391 million km (6-year) journey to the asteroid.
The spacecraft is expected to reach its 16 Psyche in August of 2029.
So, you are not getting rich anytime soon!
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Aditya L1 to help protect us from Solar Storms
The astrophysicists all over the globe always wanted to have a machine on the inside of the sun.
And now they do (not inside but close enough); Aditya L1 is proving useful and helping Earth in protecting its vital electronics equipment from solar storms.
The insights from the Aditya L1 will alert Earth beforehand and help in protecting our,
- Power Grids,
- Communication Systems, and
- Satellites.
So, solar storms will worry us less now!
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Stocks to buy on Monday
The stock markets are on a roller-coaster ride, and thus it is helpful to know which stocks you can buy on Monday.
Indian Markets
- Kirloskar Pneumatic Co. Ltd
- Computer Age Management Services Ltd
- Canara Bank Ltd
- PVR Inox Ltd
- Cipla Ltd
Foreign Markets
- OpenAI
Make the most of this stock information for a better financial future in 2025!
This brings our 29th Weekly Roundup to an end!
We have learnt from this week’s news that big or small doesn’t matter; in the digital age, every voice has value and is heard to ensure equality amongst all.
The biggest news of the week is going to be the OTP uncertainty, and we hope that doubts are cleared on 1st December 2024.
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