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Meta killing off Instagram, Messenger cross-platform chatting

How could you, Mark? Oh, right - gotta avoid those pesky EU gatekeeper rules

Personal Tech05 Dec 2023 | 5

Europe bans Meta from using personal data to target ads

EU folks have no chill, not that we're complaining

Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 73

Meta's ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time

If you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland

Security31 Oct 2023 | 115

33 AGs sue Meta for 'exploitative and harmful acts' against American children

Cracks down on the so-called four-pronged process of luring the youth

Legal24 Oct 2023 | 15

X Social Media sues Twitter 2.0 over alphabet soup branding

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Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 32

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

Zuck's Instagram-adjacent Twitter clone to debut later this week

Personal Tech05 Jul 2023 | 117

Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say

Comment The two claim to be headed for a smackdown over copycat services

Bootnotes22 Jun 2023 | 70

Once AI can create endless viral videos, good luck switching off social media

Column Imagine humans … watching humans …watching TikTok … forever

AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 57

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

Meta busts first Chinese campaign prodding US midterms

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

Cyber-crime27 Sep 2022 | 8

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

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

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

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

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

Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender

Uswitch's survey may surprise you – or not. Depends how much you like Reddit

Bootnotes11 Nov 2021 | 4

Instagram is testing feature that tells panicking users the service is broken again

Have you tried reading books?

Bootnotes12 Oct 2021 | 46

Facebook, Instagram finally end days of uptime by returning to some downtime

Brave of Zuckerberg to switch to a three-day working week

Personal Tech08 Oct 2021 | 31

Facebook far too consumed by greed to make itself less harmful to society, whistleblower tells Congress

Lawmakers urged to solve 'this crisis' of corporate America putting profits before people

Personal Tech05 Oct 2021 | 64

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

Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook claims

Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words

Personal Tech05 May 2021 | 25

MI5 wants to shed its cocktail-guzzling posho image – so it's opened an Instagram account

Lockdown's getting to everyone – even the social media monkeys

Security22 Apr 2021 | 26

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

Myanmar orders blocks of Twitter and Instagram on top of Facebook ban

Internet traffic dips markedly as protestors take to the streets

Networks07 Feb 2021 | 16

Feds warn foreign disinformation will be spamming US voters well after the November election to sow discord and doubt

In Brief Also, Brazilian teen spots odd Instagram bug and nets $25K

Security28 Sep 2020 | 13

If you can't understand how Instagram 'influencers' make millions, good luck with these virtual ones doing even better

Comment Marketing is getting weird in 2020

Bootnotes21 Aug 2020 | 44

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Videos claiming to have magic savior pills racked up millions of views amid allegedly fraudulent investment scheme

Bootnotes27 Mar 2020 | 6

Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday

Following this?

Bootnotes18 Feb 2020 | 54

Social media notifications of the future: Ranger tagged you in a photo with Tessadora, Wrenlow, Faelina and Graylen

If you tolerate this then your children will be next

Bootnotes07 Feb 2020 | 126

From Instagram to insta-banned: Facebook wipes NSO Group workers' personal profiles amid WhatsApp hack rap

Updated Go Zuck yourself, fam

Security30 Oct 2019 | 28

How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens

Kiddiwonks flee nosey nans by decamping to Instagram

Bootnotes04 Sep 2019 | 46

Who's using Mueller Report Day to bury bad news? If you guessed Facebook, you're right: Millions more passwords stored in plaintext

Wham, bam, gee thanks, Instagram

Security18 Apr 2019 | 46

Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger merger now?

Plan to integrate platforms raises regulators' hackles

Legal29 Jan 2019 | 20

Whats(goes)App must come down... World in shock as Zuck decides to intertwine Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp

Analysis Takeover leads to consolidation? Unfathomable (adjusted for sarcasm)

Security25 Jan 2019 | 165

Silent night, social fight: Is Instagram the new Facebook for pro-Trump Russian propagandists?

Fresh Senate dossiers detail influence campaign, flag tech titans' obstructionism

Legal17 Dec 2018 | 54

Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

Zuck takes out full-page ads to apologise as Tim Cook calls for 'well-crafted' privacy laws

On-Prem25 Mar 2018 | 188

BlackBerry unveils bold new strategy: Suing the c**p out of Facebook

Updated Old RIM job on Zuck's bucks, WhatsApp, Instagram named

On-Prem06 Mar 2018 | 72

Here's why online social networks are bad for humanity, the nerds who helped build them tut-tut

Now we've cashed out, here's why everything is terrible

Personal Tech05 Feb 2018 | 53

GoPro exits drone market and slashes jobs amid sales warning

It's been a bad year, dude

On-Prem08 Jan 2018 | 33

Instagram's leaky API exposed celebrities' contact details

This could be how Justin Bieber's bare butt popped out

Security31 Aug 2017 | 6

Russian hackers and Britney Spears in one story. Are you OK, Reg?

We're fine. You might not be as Turla espionage-ware uses Britney's Instagram for evil

Security08 Jun 2017 | 10

Web celeb product whores told to put on the red light – or else

And would you believe it? The Kardashians are front and center

Legal21 Apr 2017 | 31

Graffiti 'dying out' as kids dump spray cans for Instagram, Twitter etc

Lazy millennials can't even be bothered to commit petty crime

Personal Tech07 Apr 2017 | 36

Facebook, Instagram: No, you can't auto-slurp our profiles (cough, cough, border officials)

Mining social media accounts is our job, Uncle Sam

Security13 Mar 2017 | 27

Instagram phishing apps pulled from Google Play

But not before they were downloaded 1.5 million times

Security09 Mar 2017 | 14

So long Vine, your six seconds of internet fame are over

Twitter takes axe to mobile app

On-Prem27 Oct 2016 | 31

Instagram open sources iOS UI crash fix

App devs: if UICollectionView bugs you, this might help

Software17 Oct 2016 | 1

Twitter yanks data feeding tube out of police surveillance biz

Updated Tracking for marketing, that's fine – but the cops? No way

Legal11 Oct 2016 | 34

Instagram hackers add porn links and snaps to pwned accounts

No mum, I'm fine. Yes it's mine but... Will you let me finish?

Security10 Aug 2016 | 4

How to scam $750,000 out of Microsoft Office: Two-factor auth calls to premium-rate numbers

Tech giants scramble to fix pricey loophole

Security18 Jul 2016 | 28

Zuck covers up mic and webcam because sharing isn't always good

Instagram PR pic poses interesting questions

Security22 Jun 2016 | 49

Shuttered Instagram holes opened 20 million accounts to hijack

Phone numbers exposed in borked verification portal

Security23 May 2016 | 5

Unicorn adopts rainbow as logo

LOGOWATCH Instagram upgrades its iconography, with a marvellously silly explanation

On-Prem12 May 2016 | 26

Facebook bungs 10-year-old kid $10k to not 'eliminate' Justin Bieber

Finnish lad earns serious pocket money from Instagram flaw discovery

Security03 May 2016 | 42

If you're appy and you know it, say five Hail Marys – cyber-Pope

iPontiff loses chill with phone-fondling millennials

Applications25 Apr 2016 | 14

Pope kicks off Easter week by triumphal entry into ... Instagram

Not a donkey in sight as Vatican overlooks Google, Apple platforms

Bootnotes21 Mar 2016 | 13