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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

EU eyes tech giant revenues as Digital Services Act clears hurdles

Fines worth 6 percent of annual turnover survived draft in provisional agreement

Legal25 Apr 2022 | 4

Meta strikes blow against 30% 'App Store tax' by charging 47.5% Metaverse toll

Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price

Personal Tech13 Apr 2022 | 46

Zuckerberg gets $26m in 'other' Meta compensation

Personal security, private travel, for exec making a single 'Zuck Buck'

Offbeat12 Apr 2022 | 31

Microsoft dogs Strontium domains to stop attacks on Ukraine

Software giant sinkholes systems used by Russian gang

Security08 Apr 2022 | 33

Russia (still) trying to weaponize Facebook for spying, Ukraine-war disinfo

Plus: More financially motivated miscreants try to monetize invasion

Security07 Apr 2022 | 15

Canada wants Big Tech to share its riches with news publishers

Who, what, when, how still to be worked out, ironically

Personal Tech06 Apr 2022 | 9

Hamas-linked cyber-spies 'target high-ranking Israelis'

Sensitive info swiped from Windows and Android devices, according to report

Security06 Apr 2022 | 6

Cooler heads needed in heated E2EE debate, says think tank

RUSI argues for collaboration, while others note all 'scans' compromise secure encryption

Security05 Apr 2022 | 45

Meta accused of hiring Republican consultancy to seed anti-TikTok rumors

Slap-a-teacher and smash-the-school crazes were carefully engineered smears, it is claimed

Personal Tech31 Mar 2022 | 24

Meta's plans to build hyperscale DC in Netherlands on hold

Plus: It's looking for more Metaverse engineers in Canada

On-Prem30 Mar 2022 | 10

Russian court deems Instagram and Facebook as 'extremist', WhatsApp spared

Ruling says it doesn't disseminate info as widely but some suspect it's because of the app's popularity

Legal22 Mar 2022 | 16

Ireland: Meta fined $18.6m for breaking EU's GDPR

Data protection watchdog imposes fine on half-trillion dollar valued Facebook firm

Legal16 Mar 2022 | 9

Russia labels Meta an 'extremist' organization, bans Instagram

As Ukraine calls for big tech to end support for its products in Russia

Security14 Mar 2022 | 49

What should we do about 'systemic' cyber risks? Wait, what even are those

Analysis Complexity and scale of the internet hold back our ability to tackle disaster

Security08 Mar 2022 | 4

President Biden calls for ban on social media ads aimed at kids

State of the Union features call for Congress to pass law that could see Intel spend $100B on chip factories

Security02 Mar 2022 | 30

Govt suggests Brits should hand passports to social media companies

Block buttons would become mandatory under forthcoming Online Safety Bill, says DCMS

Offbeat28 Feb 2022 | 193

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is still pushing metaverse. Next step, language translation

He probably knows a thing or two about nobody understanding him

AI + ML24 Feb 2022 | 50

Facebook is one bad Chrome extension away from another Cambridge Analytica scandal

Analysis Meta says it's on top of access token abuse but also needs Google's help

Security17 Feb 2022 | 43

UK regulator 'broke international law', says Facebook

From the people who 'sat on their hands' when asked for info about Giphy deal

Networks15 Feb 2022 | 28

Insurance claims up 31% thanks to the metaverse

I'm gaming like a wrecking ball

Bootnotes14 Feb 2022 | 20

Facebook exposes 'god mode' token that could siphon data

Updated Ban of Chrome extension by Brave reveals risk of potential API abuse at Meta

Security12 Feb 2022 | 28

Australian court finds Facebook 'divorced from reality' as it tried to define doing business down under

This one was decided on the way the cookies crumbled

Legal07 Feb 2022 | 29

Facebook fined peanuts after Giphy staff quit and firm didn't tell UK competition regulators

£1.5m fine is 0.005% of social network's profits

Legal04 Feb 2022 | 46

Grab some tissues: Meta's share price tanks after Facebook emits latest figures

Blame it on the metaverse, Apple, TikTok, inflation, and higher data charges in India

Off-Prem03 Feb 2022 | 71

Carked it, Diem? Zuckerberg's grand cryptocurrency thing may sell off assets for $200m

Facebook-born blockchain payment system's day well and truly seized

Bootnotes27 Jan 2022 | 21

Myanmar's military junta seeks ban on VPNs and digital currency

People would no longer be able to rely on VPNs for their preferred communication tool, Facebook

Security24 Jan 2022 | 14

Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

Opinion So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it

Security20 Jan 2022 | 170

Google and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

Latest iteration of Texas-led antitrust complaint against Google expands claims of bad behavior

Legal15 Jan 2022 | 42

US watchdog pokes Facebook a second time: Meta faces fresh monopoly lawsuit

If at first you don't succeed, you're probably the FTC

Personal Tech12 Jan 2022 | 9

It takes more clicks to reject their cookies than accept them, so France fines Facebook and Google over €200m

They'll have to cough €100,000 a day if they don't fix it within 3 months...

Networks06 Jan 2022 | 116

Facebook files challenge to UK Giphy buyout ban by complaining CMA was 'unfair' and 'irrational'

They really want that display ad and user tracking service

Legal05 Jan 2022 | 14

The year ahead in technology fail: You knew they were bad, now they're going to prove it

Opinion Stock up on schadenfreude, it may be 2022's most popular commodity

Columnists04 Jan 2022 | 79

You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it?

Opinion Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it

Personal Tech27 Dec 2021 | 97

TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings

Other Chinese properties also doing very well

Off-Prem21 Dec 2021 | 8

Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard

But still allows limited harvesting

Security16 Dec 2021 | 6

Facebook slapped with an eyepopping $150B lawsuit for spreading hate speech against Rohingya refugees

Lawsuit claims social media giant's algos helped Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya

Personal Tech07 Dec 2021 | 24

Indian government committee slams 'gross misuse' of internet shutdowns – even in Kashmir

Officials use them for mundane matters, not big emergencies as laws intend

Legal07 Dec 2021 | 5

Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS

The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch

Off-Prem02 Dec 2021 |

UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase

CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend

Legal30 Nov 2021 | 27

Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future

Nice employees you have, be a shame if something were to happen to them

Personal Tech25 Nov 2021 | 130

Max Schrems hits Irish Data Protection Commissioner with corruption complaint

Watchdog argues 'fairness' in process should keep some documents confidential

Security24 Nov 2021 | 17