News Roundup: Jio Price Hike, BSNL Data Breach, HONOR AI Deepfake Detection, WhatsApp Stopped Service

Sachin Saini
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Hello KNIGHTS 💫 

How are you all? I hope you are doing well! 

Today, I'm sharing some interesting news topics including the Jio Price Hike, BSNL Data Breach, HONOR AI Deepfake Detection, WhatsApp Stopped Service.
Reliance Jio Revealed New Plans.
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Reliance Jio has revealed the new traffic plan for its prepaid and postpaid users in its blog post today. Users will find these plans much more expensive than before. Jio is going to make all its traffic plans expensive on July 3. Which has been done in all the plans up to monthly, daily and annual. Along with this, the company also said that Unlimited 5G will now work unlimited on only 2 GB data or more GB data. If we talk about postpaid recharge of Jio. That too has been made expensive by the company. This recharge was earlier a plan of Rs 299 in which the user got up to 30 GB data. Now the plan for billing cycling is 349 rs and the recharge plan which earlier was 399 rs. In which the user was getting 75 GB data, its price has now become Rs 449. If we talk about Airtel's annual plan. The price of their recharge is Rs 2999 in which users are being given 2Gb data per day and unlimited 5G data. Whereas in Jio the recharge of Rs 2999 has been increased to Rs 3599. In which unlimited 5G data along with 2.5 GB data is being given to the user. And the price of Airtel plan with SIM 2.5 GB is Rs 3359 and 5G data is unlimited.

Along with this, Reliance Jio is also going to launch two new applications in the market very soon. According to the company, Jio users can use this service for free for one year.

GeoSafe: Quantum-secure communication app for calling, messaging, and file transfers, priced at Rs 199 per month.
GeoTranslate: AI-powered multilingual communication app to translate voice calls, messages, text, and images, priced at Rs 99 per month.
BSNL Faces Huge Data Breach. 
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BSNL company has said that they had to face a huge data breach in the recent past. A large amount of company data has been stolen. Apart from this, he has also received this threat from an actress who has also claimed to have a large amount of sensitive user data. According to the company's report, their server has been attacked by a hacker on the company's website. And hackers now have access to SIM card details, home location register data and important security keys related to the server. It is said that the stolen data can be misused to carry out criminal activities like SIM card cloning, identity theft and even extortion. The person who stole the data has allegedly violated the company's rules. News18 team reported that the threat actor behind the cyber attack goes by the name “Cyberphantom”. This appears to be the dark web forum username of the hacker. This cannot be confirmed. There is no confirmation yet that the data breach was carried out by an individual or group of hackers.
HONOR Introduced Eye Protection And Deepfake Detection Using AI-Powered Features For Smartphone Users. 
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HONOR has introduced its two new AI features at the event held at MWC Shanghai 2024. Also known as on device AI. The two new AI features introduced by the company will be known as AI Defocus Eye Protection and AI Deepfake Detection. Using the phone continuously for a long time can cause near vision to become weak. Keeping this in mind the company. The company provided a unique solution called AI Defocus Eye Protection. With the help of which it will help in reducing the side effects of reading on the eyes. Same thing everywhere else we look. Through deepfakes. A lot of work is being done to cheat people. With the help of this feature, online friends can be avoided and dealt with. The on-device feature checks factors such as eye contact, lighting stability, image clarity and video playback, which often cannot be detected by the human eye. Got procured by the company. This feature has the ability to tell in just 3 seconds whether it is a fake call or not. This feature is really going to be very helpful for the user. 
Whatsapp Has Stopped Its Service For Some Old Smartphones.
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This news has recently been shared by WhatsApp company. Now WhatsApp will stop working on old Apple, Samsung and some other smartphones. He believes that people already keep their phones with them for a longer period of time. According to Statista, most people in the US keep their device for at least two years and seven months before upgrading to a smartphone, and some use their phone until it breaks. If you have an older phone and use WhatsApp frequently, So you may have to upgrade to a new device to continue using the app. A report suggests that WhatsApp will stop updating and working on more than 35 smartphones from vendors like Apple, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Motorola and Samsung. Among these, there are some companies which have stopped selling their phones in India. This news may be quite sad for the user to some extent.

That's it for all today threads. See you soon guys with another threads.

Thank You 
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Sachin Saini 
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sarthhkk
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Me who uses bsnl as my primary sim 🥵
Kabali
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I am worried on the Jio Price Hike 😢
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Now airtel and vi will increase the prices 
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Akshat Gulati (@weird_pixel_)
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