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
Posh frockers Lord & Taylor spanked after Instagram fillies shocker Store paid people to pose with dress, never disclosed fact Legal15 Mar 2016 | 29
Instascam! Apple yanks phoney app, Google follows Popular password harvester kicked off App Store and Play Security12 Nov 2015 | 12
Stop taking drug advice from Kim Kardashian on Twitter, sighs watchdog Baffling reality TV babe dishes out medical tips on Instagram – much to regulator's fury Bootnotes12 Aug 2015 | 74
Reg top tip: Don't have the same name as someone else if you use Facebook's Instagram Photo biz so sorry after viral storm over confiscated account Bootnotes21 Jul 2015 | 47
Facebook dunks Instagram in new search filter sheep dip Photo-sharing service comes up smelling of Zuck, seeking ad cash SaaS24 Jun 2015 | 4
Facebook to slather Instagram in ad goo as photo-sharing app OPENS WIDE Say 'arghhhhhhh' Legal03 Jun 2015 | 3
OMFG – Emojis are killing off traditional 'net slang Kids these days prefer pics to acronyms says Instagram analysis Bootnotes04 May 2015 | 57
Instagram's HTTPS cert expires, millions of crap photographers panic Hipster photo platform doesn't do much for security bods Legal30 Apr 2015 | 9
Facebook, Instagram, Tinder TITSUP*: HOW did anyone even find out? Updated *Total Inability To Support Uninteresting People On-Prem27 Jan 2015 | 17
Instagram FLASHED YOUR PRIVATES to picture pervs Pic-propagation-p0wnage possibility plugged Security14 Jan 2015 | 4