This week started with Indians celebrating Rakshabandhan, a festival to cherish sister-brother love, and Google launching its August Core Update of 2024 regarding SEO!
It later panned out into various news stories, be they India’s First National Space Day, Amul becoming the top food brand, Google glitching the Shopping Ads, China releasing a Kung Fu robot that can cook, Mpox, and much more.
We tried bringing the number of relevant news stories down but couldn’t bring it lower than 14. We know, right?
Imagine the amount of news we went through to curate this edition of Weekly roundup for ya!
And we haven’t forgotten our stock tips, either!
India is celebrating its First National Space Day
Read out: To mark the momentous success of Chandrayaan 3, we are celebrating!
Do you remember Chandrayaan 3?
Well, on August 23, 2023, it made history by landing on the moon, and we couldn’t keep calm about it!
Today marks one year since that historic day and event, and thus the Indian Government is celebrating it as the first National Space Day, lest we forget it.
FYI, Vikram Lander landed near the South Pole, and the landing point was named Shiv-Shakti!
This made us the fourth country to land on the Moon, opening infinite opportunities for ISRO. Source
LiteSpeed Cache, a plugin in WordPress, has a critical flaw!
Read out: This is causing hackers to gain Admin Access.
WordPress is reeling under yet another plugin issue that is giving away Admin Access to hackers.
LiteSpeed Cache, a widely used plugin to improve website loading speed, is the latest prey of hackers because of its privilege escalation vulnerability that is unauthenticated!
Using this Admin Access, hackers can install or remove malicious plugins.
This vulnerability has been dubbed CVE-2024-28000 with a CVSS score of 9.8 and has been resolved in version 6.4. The affected versions are 6.3.0.1 and the preceding ones.
Upgrade the plugin, if you are using it!
Was your YouTube account hacked?
Read out: YouTube’s new AI chatbot can help recover it!
Google understands the pain of an account being hacked!
And that’s why they have come up with an AI chatbot that will help you recover your lost accounts.
The tool is called “Troubleshooting Tool,” and here’s how it works:
- You ask the tool to restore your hacked accounts.
- The chatbot will share with you some steps to do the same.
- It will even help you restore any changes that might have been made after being hacked!
Earlier, the YouTube users had to mail the company and wait for the official process to happen.
Lambda Test releases AI to test Softwares!
Read out: KaneAI will make software testing easy and fun.
To be on top of their competition, businesses need speedy implementation!
That means they need speedy development and testing for their new software, but usually it would take a lot of time for the software to be tested.
Plus, after every update or patch, further testing is needed!
LambdaTest, which is a startup based in San Francisco, launched KaneAI to help you with your software testing.
While there are rivals such as Sauce Labs, Perfecto, BrowserStack, and Device Firm, with KaneAI’s OpenAI integration and billion testing formats, KaneAI holds the key!
Were you waiting for a robot that could do everything?
Read out: A Chinese robot can cook, do Kung Fu and play Basketball!
We have seen it in many sci-fi movies and TV series, but the real life version was yet to be seen!
Well, you don’t have to wait any longer; Astribot S1 can do Kung Fu (Wing Chun), cook meals, and play basketball!
It can also,
- Fold clothes
- Sort Items
- Flip pans during cooking.
- Vaccum
- Stack cups and much more.
The robot will be hitting the markets later this year!
India beats China in buying Russian oil.
Read out: This July, India bought more oil than China, i.e., 2.07 million barrels per day!
China used to reign on top, but not anymore!
India bought more oil than China from Russia in July 2024, which was 2.07 million barrels per day.
Buying oil isn’t a big thing directly, but when you see its indirect meaning, you will see its significance.
Whoever has oil controls the world economy, and since the world has sanctioned Russia, they can’t directly buy the oil from them.
India, being the neutral party, is taking advantage of this situation and buying oil from Russia to sell it to the whole world, especially Europe.
China had to decrease its oil purchases as it was not able to make enough profits as the world prefers India over China!
Amul has been crowned the Strongest Food Brand in the World!
Read out: Amul has an AAA+ rating and 91/100 in the Brand Strength Index.
Amul, our favourite milk brand, is now the world’s strongest food brand in dairy products and non-alcoholic brands!
This is great news for India and those countless dairy farmers who rely on Amul’s cooperative culture to live a happy life.
What started as the White Revolution in the 1970s in the Kaira district of Gujarat has become the world’s number one.
Amul, or Anand Milk Union Limited, was ranked 91 out of 100 on the BSI, or Brand Strength Index, while it also holds the highest AAA+ rating (followed in the USA, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Canada).
iPhones, world-renowned for their safety and reliability, are crashing!
Read out: A simple four-character string is putting iPhones in a fix!
Did you know that your iPhone can freeze with just a string of characters?
It sounds strange, right? But it is true; we have tried it!
Mastodon, who is a security researcher, found this bug in which if you enter “”:: on your App Library search bar or the Spotlight Search, the phone would freeze for a few seconds and then reboot to the home screen.
The issue is affecting iOS 17, 18, and 18.1, but thankfully there is nothing dangerous in it, so even you can give it a shot!
Do you dread writing emails?
Read out: Gmail launches the Polish feature to write top-class emails!
We know how important and scary email can be, and so does Google!
Gmail’s new feature, called Polish will help you write fantastic emails, though.
You can also use shortcuts like “Refine my draft” and “Help me write” on your iOS and Android Gmail apps.
You just need a rough draft and let Polish do its wonders with a click!
If the email is empty, then you will see Help and Refine options, but if you have written more than 12 words, then only the Refine option will show.
This feature is by default and cannot be turned off.
Google had to apologize for a large-scale Shopping Ads glitch!
Read out: The glitch entailed the wrong product display, sensitive data exposure, and much more.
Can you imagine your Shopping Ads being displayed incorrectly?
Well, the advertisers on Google were facing it! Their Shopping Ads were,
- Displaying someone else’s products in their ads, and
- Sharing confidential data with others.
Plus, what made it super weird was the fact that Google did not communicate the issue or when they would fix it!
This issue has been bugging the advertisers since July 31st and is now resolved!
But the advertisers are asking Google to be more clear, share transparent reports, have effective timelines, and share measures to avoid such an issue in the future!
PMax campaign modification request forms modified: Google Ads
Read out: Multiple changes, faster implementations, and more now await advertisers.
Don’t you think your PMax implementations could be quicker?
Google Ads just granted this wish with updates PMax campaign modification request forms!
A few improvements in the form,
- Quicker implementation notifications
- Yes and No account verification
- Expansion in the “Type of Change” or you can use a single form to submit changes like addition or removal of negative keywords, addition of topic exclusions, and add placement exclusions.
The form is live, and you can test it now!
The USA is reeling under the Slapped Cheek Virus attack!
Read out: Human Parvovirus or B19, is putting pregnant and weak individuals at risk.
Slapped Cheek Virus; Isn’t that a funky name for a disease?
But it is very real, and it is currently troubling the USA.
It is also known as the Human Parvovirus or the fifth virus, or the B19 virus!
As the name suggests, the affected person, mostly kids, gets rashes on their face that look like a slapped cheek.
Normally, the virus isn’t deadly, but for pregnant and low-immune people, it can pose a serious threat.
The CDC (in USA) or the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and 14 EU countries have sounded alert for the same.
The Mpox virus has reached 116 countries!
Read out: It has a mortality rate of 0.002%, i.e., 2 in every 1000, as per the WHO stats.
A new global health emergency has been declared by the WHO for the Mpox, or monkey pox virus!
Currently, the disease is at an alarming stage in Africa. It has a mortality rate of 2 in 1000 patients, and India has reported 30 cases as of now since 2022.
Mpox is an infectious disease that causes fever, swollen lymph nodes, and painful rashes all over the body.
It spreads through close contact with the affected person.
The Indian government has intrusted authorities at airports, borders, and ports to be vigilant about it and transfer affected people to designated hospitals.
You can get the Mpox vaccine and maintain social distance to be safe!
Indian stocks to focus on this weekend
Read out: Here’s how you can upgrade your retail investor portfolio!
Here are the stocks that you can buy this weekend from the Indian stock market:
- Hindalco
- Bharti Airtel
- GAIL
Have an investing spree!
This brings our 16th edition of the weekly roundup to an end!
By the end of the day, we saw two believers in Peace sharing their compassion for the deaths of citizens in Ukraine, and the world looked to them for a peaceful end to this Russia-Ukraine conflict!
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