Indian PM calls on the world to save youth from Bitcoin – TheRegister

Speaking at The Sydney Dialogue, an online event hosted today by defence and strategic policy think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Modi lauded India’s technology sector for helping to address the Y2K problem, creating value through its vigorous start-up scene, improving the lives of citizens, and open-sourcing the Co-WIN COVID-19 management application.

That remark was left without elaboration, but India has previously tabled legislation that would ban use of cryptocurrency.

Modi said the package will not only address local industry development but should be considered in the context of India’s willingness to work with like-minded nations on technical and governance standards and norms, consistent with democratic values.

The company told loyal customers: “From the afternoon of 13 November 2021 until the morning of 17 November 2021 , you’ll be unable to log in to your Executive Club account or spend your Avios online or by contacting us” – but as of today, things continued to be down.

Exactly what British Airways was and is still doing during this time is unclear.

An awful lot was riding on the mission, which placed a pair of BlackSky satellites into orbit and was dubbed “Love at first Insight.” It was the second launch since a BlackSky payload was lost on May’s “Running Out Of Toes” mission after a second-stage failure.

Rocket Lab has been iterating its recovery plans; despite the failure of “Running Out Of Toes”, the first stage managed a soft ocean landing by parachute.

One of the few virtues of Twitter is that if someone makes a complaint to a big corporation, it’s public.

While individual trusts and GP surgeries manage their own technology spending, these central management bodies are together driving an £8.1bn digital transformation strategy up to 2023-24.

He’s also undoubtedly generating some income from Amazon referral links throughout his post and hawking wares from his merch store, but you know, capitalism.

The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years.

The Tuvalu government has chosen to run that process in secret, however: an unusual decision given its ministers have actively sought press coverage of .tv’s future in the past few months, approaching mainstream US media outlets, including the Washington Post.

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