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Facebook approved 75% of ads threatening US election workers

Not a good look for Meta's content moderation team

Personal Tech02 Dec 2022 | 32

Meta fined $275m after data-scraping fiasco leaked 533m Facebook users' profiles

Irish eyes aren't smiling

Personal Tech28 Nov 2022 | 27

Meta scores $200k default win against alleged peddler of Instagram Likes

Manipulating users' feelings on a social media platform? That's our job!

Legal28 Nov 2022 | 3

Quest VR glasses back on sale in Germany – but watchdog has eye on Meta

Goggles unhooked from Facebook login, but officials still watching for antitrust abuse

Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 15

Meta links US military to fake social media influence campaigns

Didn't say they were good, though – covert ops apparently got 'little to no engagement' from targets

Research24 Nov 2022 | 20

Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset

The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place

Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 32

Twitter layoffs were bad but Meta's mass ejections could take the cake

Just in time for the holidays, a bunch of firing talk to worry Facebook crew

Personal Tech07 Nov 2022 | 34

Microsoft revising licenses and prices in Korea and Japan, won't say why

Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's edgy JV; US/China space spat; Facebook's India boss bails to join Snap; and more

Software06 Nov 2022 | 3

Meta thirsts for desert conditions in datacenter water quest

Finally testing out the honesty of that one engineer who always says: 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity'

On-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 13

Meta wants to sweat its servers for longer – at a cost of $60b

Even as the ad market chills and share price slumps

Systems27 Oct 2022 | 14

Finance watchdog warns of long-term risk Big Tech poses to competition

FAGA's interest in payments and lending services has UK's Financial Conduct Authority's attention

Personal Tech26 Oct 2022 | 12

What's up with WhatsApp? Messaging platform suffers outage in the UK

Updated Massive spike in user reports on DownDetector, no word on cause

Off-Prem25 Oct 2022 | 28

Shareholders slam Zuckerberg's 'terrifying' $100b+ Metaverse experiment

Start with dumping a fifth of staff, capping that VR capex, firm urges

Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 35

Meta gives up fight to get $400m Giphy buy approved

Facebook to dump GIF super-gallery after just enough pestering from UK

Personal Tech18 Oct 2022 | 14

Meta mad as hell over allegations it let Indian politicians block content

Local outlet claims to have insider docs that prove takedown powers. Meta says they're fake. And around and around they go

Legal17 Oct 2022 | 8

Biden's Privacy Shield 2.0 order may not satisfy Europe

In brief Also, Albania almost called in NATO over cyber attacks, and Facebook warns of account-stealing mobile apps

Security08 Oct 2022 | 20

Don't mind Facebook, just putting its own browser in its Android app

Analysis Totally not for data collection

Software04 Oct 2022 | 45

Meta busts first Chinese campaign prodding US midterms

Russian cybercriminals were also caught targeting Europe with anti-Ukraine messages

Cyber-crime27 Sep 2022 | 8

Meta accused of breaking the law by secretly tracking iPhone users

Ad goliath reckons complaint is meritless – but it would, wouldn't it?

Personal Tech23 Sep 2022 | 32

To preserve Earth's treasures, digital silence is golden

Column There are beautiful, undisturbed places in the world. You do not have to catch 'em all

Software14 Sep 2022 | 56

Shape-shifting cryptominer savages Linux endpoints and IoT

In brief Also, Authorities seize WT1SHOP selling 5.8m sets of PII, The North Face users face tough security hike

Security10 Sep 2022 | 10

Meta disbands Responsible Innovation team, spreads it out over Facebook and co

Still unclear: Were members just screaming into a void for the past few years?

Security09 Sep 2022 | 20

Meta found guilty of flouting Washington political ad laws – again

Hundreds of 'intentional' violations could cost Zuck and Co $30k each

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 8

Instagram fined in Ireland for violating children's privacy

Meta set to the appeal the data protection authority's near $400m penalty

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 7

Apple app transparency changes bring in the ad bucks... for Apple

By striking down Google and Facebook, the iMaker's transformation is complete

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 14

Meta picks India for WhatsApp's first e-commerce service

Indian residents will be able to buy their groceries through the chat app – for as long as the government is happy with the idea

Personal Tech30 Aug 2022 | 7

Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount

Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta

Legal29 Aug 2022 | 31

Zuckerberg: Yes, Facebook kept Hunter Biden's laptop under wraps

Also: Smiling, eye tracking, and general 'social presence' baked into Project Cambria

Personal Tech26 Aug 2022 | 93

Meta offers $37.5m to settle location tracking lawsuit

Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit

Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 27

Novant Health admits leak of 1.3m patients' info to Facebook

But don't worry, Zuck would never misuse this type of sensitive data

Security22 Aug 2022 | 12

Facebook hands over chats to cops in post-Roe abortion case

'If your business model depends on more aggressive surveillance, maybe you need a new business model'

Personal Tech10 Aug 2022 | 96

You'll soon be able to ghost a WhatsApp group without making everyone hate you

Well, until they find out that you've left, but at least they won't be immediately notified of your every move

Offbeat10 Aug 2022 | 25

WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat

'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that'

Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 52

Meta pours cash into servers and AI as ad revenue falls

Plus: Apple's iOS privacy changes 'weren't a factor' in Q2

Systems28 Jul 2022 | 8

Vietnamese attacker circumvents Facebook security with ‘DUCKTAIL’ malware

Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys

Research27 Jul 2022 | 8

South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs

Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese

Legal25 Jul 2022 |

Amazon sues 10,000 Facebook Group admins for offering fake reviews

Good luck deciding which toxic monopolist deserves your sympathy in this fight

Cyber-crime20 Jul 2022 | 46

Meta asks line managers to identify poorly performing staff for firing

Zuckerberg makes good on headcount threats he issued last month

On-Prem12 Jul 2022 | 45

Meta accuses data scrapers of taking more than their share

It's not that Facebook doesn't allow harvesting, it's more that it wasn't authorized, allegedly

Legal07 Jul 2022 | 14

Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat

Comment And 30% fewer new engineers this year

AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 31

Meta agrees to tweak ad system after US govt brands it discriminatory

And pay the tiniest of fines, too

Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 11

Metaverse progress update: Some VR headset prototypes nowhere near shipping

But when it does work, bet you'll fall over yourselves to blow ten large on designer clobber for your avy

Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 24

US lawsuit alleges tool used by hospitals shares patient data with Meta

Booking appointments and other interactions with hospital portals can lead to some medical details being shared for advertising, class action claims

Legal20 Jun 2022 | 17

Consultant plays Metaverse MythBuster. Here's why they're wrong

Opinion Holograms, brands, NFTs, and a 1,000-consumer survey

Offbeat16 Jun 2022 | 83

Meta mostly fails in appeal against order from UK watchdog to sell Giphy

Might have been a good idea to mention that Snap was sniffing around GIF biz, too, judges note, though

Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 9

Facebook phishing campaign nets millions in IDs and cash

Hundreds of millions of stolen credentials and a cool $59 million

Cyber-crime09 Jun 2022 | 8

Zuckerberg sued for alleged role in Cambridge Analytica data-slurp scandal

I can prove CEO was 'personally involved in Facebook’s failure to protect privacy', DC AG insists

Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 18

Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses

How to make a free messaging platform bought for $22 billion profitable

Applications20 May 2022 | 30

Lawmakers launch bill to break up tech giants' ad dominance

Running ad auctions while also buying and selling ads may be outlawed for large firms

Legal19 May 2022 | 5

Facebook rated least safe e-commerce option in government rankings

Singapore's safety scheme measures scam-combatting capability

Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 2

Meta hires network chip guru from Intel: What does this mean for future silicon?

Analysis Why be a customer when you can develop your own custom semiconductors

Networks16 May 2022 | 1

Ad-tech firms grab email addresses from forms before they're even submitted

Researchers find widespread harvesting of info without consent

Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 91

Facebook deliberately took down Australian government pages during pay-for-news negotiations: report

Whistleblowers say takedowns were used as leverage, Facebook disagrees

Legal06 May 2022 | 19

Facebook's Meta, tracking code, and the student financial aid website

Also: Oculus virtual reality apps fail to detail info collection

Research30 Apr 2022 | 15

Meta materials: Facebook using AI to design green concrete

Claims new formula reduced carbon emissions by 40%, exceeded strength requirements

AI + ML29 Apr 2022 | 18

Meta physical: Facebook parent to open its first real-world store

To truly understand virtual reality, first you need to go outside, interact with actual people...

Personal Tech26 Apr 2022 | 5