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Once again, Facebook champions privacy ... of its algorithms: Independent probe into Instagram shut down

AlgorithmWatch ends newsfeed study after 'thinly veiled threat'

Personal Tech13 Aug 2021 | 16

Perhaps regretting those Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions, UK watchdog suggests Facebook offloads GIF haven Giphy

BTW is that pronounced Jiffy or?

Personal Tech13 Aug 2021 | 20

Facebook now says it won't recall staff to its offices until 2022 due to delta variant

It's the Social distancing Network™

On-Prem13 Aug 2021 | 8

Tick-tock, Facebook: Not a reference to that short vid horsepuckey but a literal open-source timekeeper

Social media giant unveils specs for Open Compute Time Appliance

Systems11 Aug 2021 | 11

Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports

That spells trouble for up to one in five workers expected to be WFH

Off-Prem11 Aug 2021 | 98

Facebook takes bold stance on privacy – of its ads: Independent transparency research blocked

Updated Heaven forbid someone lifts the lid on social network's disinformation and public manipulation

Personal Tech04 Aug 2021 | 49

Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts

Legal eagles determined to overturn decision to throw out antitrust lawsuit targeting Instagram, Whatsapp acquisitions

Personal Tech28 Jul 2021 | 7

Facebook tries to save face by recalling itch-inducing Oculus Quest 2 VR headset foam

Reports of skin problems and a recall in Australia move social ad biz to action

Personal Tech27 Jul 2021 | 10

Even Facebook struggles: Zuck's titanic database upgrade hits numerous legacy software bergs

The Social Network™ has spent years trying to hop from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0 and still isn’t done

Databases23 Jul 2021 | 42

Facebook gardening group triumphs over slapdash Zuck censorbots

Giant news org megaphone persuades dim algos they're talking about the other sort of hoes

Bootnotes22 Jul 2021 | 38

Brain-computer interface researchers warn of a 'bleak' cyberpunk future – unless we tread carefully

Commercial exploitation of a person's inner thoughts 'particularly worrisome'

Science22 Jul 2021 | 44

UK's Digital Markets Unit – the Big Tech watchdog – remains toothless for now but statutory powers due this year

Better get a wiggle on because the work is stacking up, those potentially massive fines won't write themselves

Legal20 Jul 2021 | 2

US Surgeon General doubles down on Facebook-bashing amid vaccination information blame game

The Social Network fires back after President Biden accuses it of 'killing people'

Legal19 Jul 2021 | 75

Facebook pulls plug on mind-reading neural interface that restored a user's speech

Updated Stroke victim 'talks' for first time in 16 years, but The Social Network can't see a route to market

AI + ML15 Jul 2021 | 25

G20 finance ministers agree plan to make multinationals pay their 'fair share' of tax

Tax-efficient tech giants in firing line

Legal12 Jul 2021 | 82

Reserve Bank of India warns against Big Tech's potential to dominate financial services

Don't be allured by the siren sound of inclusion and lasting efficiency gains, says report

Legal02 Jul 2021 | 12

Ex-boss of UK's Competition and Markets Authority asks: How can it tackle Big Tech when no one knows what the CMA is?

On the other hand, he did have two years to raise watchdog's profile

Legal02 Jul 2021 | 15

Court kills FTC, US states' antitrust complaints against trillion-dollar Facebook

Watchdog has 30 days to try again or let it go

Personal Tech29 Jun 2021 | 13

UK's competition watchdog preps to shoulder post-Brexit workload from European Commission

Apparently Eastenders' Phil Mitchell is in charge these days - it sounds fighty

Legal28 Jun 2021 | 41

Facebook CEO puts picture of himself wearing too much sunscreen on new board

Surfboard, not corporate board. But we're sure Zuck is working on that, too

Offbeat25 Jun 2021 | 19

Facebook granted patent for 'artificial reality' baseball cap. Repeat, an 'artificial reality' baseball cap

Yeah, y'know, Google Glass wasn't nearly obnoxious enough

Bootnotes23 Jun 2021 | 87

Facebook and Singapore teams looking for ways to get data centres relaxing in moist tropical climes

Heat and humidity are horrible, and your server can’t quaff a cocktail to cool off

Off-Prem18 Jun 2021 | 7

Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request

Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'

Bootnotes17 Jun 2021 | 162

Ireland warned it could face 'rolling blackouts' if it doesn't address data centres' demand for electricity

Utilities watchdog launches consultation that may affect green island's mega bit barns

Systems11 Jun 2021 | 52

Y'all ready to get back to the office this October, Facebook tells staff in the US

Sure, you can apply to work from home in the middle of nowhere, just don't expect Silicon Valley pay

On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 15

Now that Trump is useless to Zuckerberg, ex-president is exiled from Facebook for two years, possibly indefinitely

Donald, you're fired. Again

Personal Tech04 Jun 2021 | 82

Facebook faces competition enquiry on two fronts as EU and UK officials scrutinise its ad data

Did the anti-social network use advertiser info to compete with rivals?

Legal04 Jun 2021 | 4

FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof

Rarely seen miscalculations now crop up frequently at cloud hyperscale

Systems04 Jun 2021 | 165

Check the TUPE: Facebook's hire of Bloomsbury AI founders wasn't 'traditional' acquisition - so sacked bod can't claim law was broken

So says the UK's Employment Tribunal in unfair dismissal case

AI + ML01 Jun 2021 | 10

Facebook Giphy merger stays on ice after failed challenge to UK competition regulator

Problem was of social network's own making, says unimpressed judge

Applications14 May 2021 | 15

WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook, or we'll make our own app useless to you

Zuck gets tough just as Germany blocks privacy policy roll-out

Personal Tech11 May 2021 | 78

Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it

Antisocial giant insists 'Help keep FB free of charge' messaging is merely educational

Personal Tech07 May 2021 | 74

Facebook Oversight Board upholds decision to ban Trump, asks FB to look at own 'potential contribution' to 'narrative of electoral fraud'

Looks like you can safely ignore that friend request... forever

Legal05 May 2021 | 32

Facebook, it's cool to see you using Rust and joining the foundation, but please don't Zuck it up for all of us

Video Vows to make safe C++-alike 'a mainstream language of choice' as hundreds of devs wield it

Devops30 Apr 2021 | 19

What is it with Facebook and screwing democracies? Now calls for Prime Minister Modi to resign censored in India

#ResignModi posts hidden amid heartbreaking COVID-19 crisis

Personal Tech29 Apr 2021 | 18

Scam victims find same fraudulent ads lurking on Facebook and Google even after flagging them up

Consumer watchdog blasts platforms for onerous reporting mechanisms

Security26 Apr 2021 | 32

Would be so cool if everyone normalized these pesky data leaks, says data-leaking Facebook in leaked memo

Blundering mouthpiece sent arrogant line to journalist by accident

Security20 Apr 2021 | 34

Won't somebody please think of the children!!! UK to mount fresh assault on end-to-end encryption in Facebook

Change the record, nobody's fooled by this now

Security19 Apr 2021 | 122

Patent battle over Facebook Live and 'walkie talkie' tech rattles through High Court in London

Sueball sees social network squaring off against app upstart in UK branch of worldwide fight

Legal16 Apr 2021 | 14

Irish privacy watchdog sticks GDPR probe into Facebook after that online giveaway of 533 million profiles

Oh, you mean the 'features that make it easier for people to find and connect with friends on our services'?

Personal Tech15 Apr 2021 | 38

Facebook job ads algorithm still discriminates on gender, LinkedIn not so much

Gender bias found in employment adverts despite antisocial network giant's past promises

Software09 Apr 2021 | 21

UK government launches new tech watchdog – because the digital sales tax went so well

Digital Markets Unit takes aim at giants' conduct with users and advertisers

Networks07 Apr 2021 | 1

Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors

Yes, this could mean Zuck gets your passport and credit card. We’re sure he’ll take care of them properly …

Legal06 Apr 2021 | 100

Facebook says dump of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck

Updated Account info swiped in 2019, sold online, now given away for free

Security05 Apr 2021 | 88

Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore

Zuck tired of US gov blocking his cables to Hong Kong, goes another route

Off-Prem30 Mar 2021 | 18

US state AGs: How can Facebook, Google, Twitter say they tackle misinformation when *gestures wildly at COVID-19 BS everywhere*

Top legal eagles urge web giants to do more in this life and death matter

Personal Tech24 Mar 2021 | 35

Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook

Updated Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?

Storage23 Mar 2021 | 34

America's Supremes give Facebook nothing but heartaches: Top court won't stop '$15bn wiretap' lawsuit

Class action accusing antisocial media giant of privacy infringement will now move forward

Personal Tech23 Mar 2021 | 16

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp pause usual data collection with an outage

Updated Social ad biz is working to restore service, for better or worse

Networks19 Mar 2021 | 14

Being asked to rate fake news may help stop social media users sharing it, study finds

Could slow the spread of misinformation without needing draconian law

Science19 Mar 2021 | 42

Rupert and Zuck, sitting in a tree, P-A-Y-I-N-G

Facebook signs deal to send cash to News Corporation’s Australian mastheads and Fox News wannabe

Legal16 Mar 2021 | 7

Facebook’s new world domination ploy is a two-megabyte Instagram app tested in India and Brazil

Works just fine on ancient low-end Androids, so now The Social Network™ can monopolise developing nations too!

Software12 Mar 2021 | 23

It's wild the lengths Facebook engineers will go to find new ways to show you inane ads about tat: This time, AR...

... and a lot of wrist action

Bootnotes11 Mar 2021 | 30

First Australia, maybe Europe, now America mulls effort to potentially make Google, Facebook pay for news

Journalism Competition and Preservation Act has been proposed twice already. Will it survive this time?

Personal Tech11 Mar 2021 | 17

Facebook uses one billion Instagram photos to build massive object-recognition AI that partly trained itself

Proof-of-concept SEER taught over eight days using 512 GPUs

AI + ML06 Mar 2021 | 27

Facebook decommissions 185 accounts run by Thai military

It’s not that they lied (which looks likely), it's that they all lied together, says spokesperson

Legal04 Mar 2021 | 5