NewsBytes Briefing: Narendra Modi draws inspiration from MrBeast, and more
It's official, even our supreme leader Narendra Modi is most likely a fan of YouTube philanthropist MrBeast. How do we know? Well, after Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson teamed up with NASA to send memes into space, ISRO is also doing the same. The PSLV-C51 mission will be sending Modi's photographs into space, and nowhere did the reports say that those won't be memes.
We would be surprised if Facebook didn't commit perjury today
Speaking of copycats, when Facebook isn't busy shoving stolen features into the bloated corpses of its social media properties, it finds the time to lie to everyone from the US Congress to the honorable Indian Supreme Court. Mark Zuckerberg and company basically told the apex court that it will not be misusing Indian user data. Yeah, and we use torrents only to download Ubuntu.
Modi might just finish what Donald Trump had started
While we are on the subject of lying, no one does it better than Chinese businesses, which are an integral part of the country's "thousand grains of sand" approach to intelligence, where the authoritarian regime conducts espionage through the country's businesses. Although Trump might have been ousted before he could end TikTok in US, Modi is all but done exterminating the menace in India.
Chinese dissidents must watch their mouths in Clubhouse
If you want more proof of China using its tech infrastructure for spying, look no further than the latest Clubhouse leak. Chinese tech firm Agora, which provides the vital media infrastructure to Clubhouse, has been conveniently passing user metadata unencrypted. While the poor folks at CIA have to work hard to get past Apple and its ilk, Chinese businesses are a lot more considerate.
Jaguar wants to take Tesla's place on Earth by 2025
Even if Jaguar lacks the hype and growth potential of Tesla, it makes up for that with foresight. Everyone and their uncle knows that Elon Musk will be on Mars by 2025, so someone will have to make rechargeable cars for the people still stuck on Earth. That's precisely why the former British car maker has vowed to stop making gas guzzlers by 2025.
And scientists find a way to offset Jaguar's green initiative
The survival of our species depends on maintaining the ecological balance. And that balance will be shattered if Jaguar just stops making gas guzzlers. There's no need to worry because some scientists have banded together to offset that by increasing our collective thirst for deforestation. These intrepid scientists have figured out how to make windowpanes out of trees. What's next? Superglue from endangered species?
