Security
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
24 Jan 2022 07:02 | 12
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Opinion
Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption
So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it
20 Jan 2022 15:06 | 161
Legal
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
15 Jan 2022 01:10 | 42
Personal Tech
US watchdog pokes Facebook a second time: Meta faces fresh monopoly lawsuit
If at first you don't succeed, you're probably the FTC
12 Jan 2022 23:34 | 9
Networks
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...
06 Jan 2022 12:26 | 112
Legal
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
05 Jan 2022 16:58 | 14
Opinion
The year ahead in technology fail: You knew they were bad, now they're going to prove it
Stock up on schadenfreude, it may be 2022's most popular commodity
04 Jan 2022 09:02 | 77
Opinion
You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it?
Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it
27 Dec 2021 14:00 | 96
Off-Prem
TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings
Other Chinese properties also doing very well
21 Dec 2021 02:31 | 8
Security
Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard
But still allows limited harvesting
16 Dec 2021 01:33 | 6
Personal Tech
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
07 Dec 2021 23:04 | 24
Legal
Indian government committee slams 'gross misuse' of internet shutdowns – even in Kashmir
Officials use them for mundane matters, not big emergencies as laws intend
07 Dec 2021 02:45 | 5
Off-Prem
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
02 Dec 2021 03:55 |
Legal
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
30 Nov 2021 13:15 | 27
Personal Tech
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
25 Nov 2021 00:44 | 130
Security
Max Schrems hits Irish Data Protection Commissioner with corruption complaint
Watchdog argues 'fairness' in process should keep some documents confidential
24 Nov 2021 15:05 | 17
Personal Tech
'We are not people to Mark Zuckerberg, we are the product' rages Ohio's Attorney General in Facebook lawsuit
Britain's former deputy prime minister among execs sued on behalf of pension fund, other investors
17 Nov 2021 02:26 | 27
Bootnotes
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
11 Nov 2021 15:00 | 4
Applications
Here's a couple who deserve each other: Facebook links Workplace enterprise offering to Microsoft Teams
Group communication app integration breaks down barriers and whatever
10 Nov 2021 21:43 | 4
Personal Tech
Chip makers aren't all-in on metaverse hardware yet – we should know, we asked them
Nvidia, though, expects this virtual-reality world to be as vast as the internet
05 Nov 2021 07:23 | 25
Updated
Facebook ditches its creepy, controversial robot – yes, its facial-recognition AI
Social network is going to sit this one out until clear rules are formulated
02 Nov 2021 21:47 | 14
Personal Tech
Apple's anti-ad-tracking iPhone feature took a '$10bn' chunk out of social network revenues
What's that, the world's tiniest violin playing?
01 Nov 2021 18:48 | 27
Networks
Did you know there is an Oculus for Business? Make that 'was' – because Facebook has canned it after two years
Now it's Quest for Business. Don't all rush at once
29 Oct 2021 16:28 | 9
Comment
Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done
His social network has Meta-stasized
29 Oct 2021 00:48 | 226
Personal Tech
First, stunning whistleblower leaks. Now a shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk
We dubbed it the Antisocial Network – and it appears we were right
28 Oct 2021 00:06 | 70
Off-Prem
Facebook's greatest misses: The five nastiest bits from recent leaks
Zuck says criticism is unfair and – look over here at our huge revenue growth, billions for future holo-conferences, and pivot to young adults
26 Oct 2021 05:15 | 66
Security
Facebook sues scraper who sold 178 million phone numbers and user IDs
Apparently The Social NetworkTM is the only one allowed to do nasty things with users' data
25 Oct 2021 08:01 | 47
Updated
Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe
That rebrand can't come soon enough
20 Oct 2021 13:49 | 41
Poll
Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids
We've kicked things off with the most splendidly evil fictional corporations, feel free to share your ideas
20 Oct 2021 07:01 | 239
Personal Tech
Allegations of favoring visa holders over US workers for jobs cost Facebook just 4 hours of annual profit
And that $14.25m is supposed to be some kind of record
19 Oct 2021 23:20 | 16
Bootnotes
Facebook posts job ad for 10,000 'high-skilled' roles to 'build the metaverse' – and they'll all be based in the EU
Announcement uses the phrase 'world-leading' without referring to UK once
18 Oct 2021 14:30 | 47
Bootnotes
Instagram is testing feature that tells panicking users the service is broken again
Have you tried reading books?
12 Oct 2021 11:30 | 46
Opinion
The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time
Zucks to lose your #HugOps
11 Oct 2021 10:05 | 150
Personal Tech
Facebook, Instagram finally end days of uptime by returning to some downtime
Brave of Zuckerberg to switch to a three-day working week
08 Oct 2021 20:37 | 31
Networks
Facebook rendered spineless by buggy audit code that missed catastrophic network config error
Explains mega-outage with boilerplate response: We try hard, we're sorry we failed, we'll try to do better
06 Oct 2021 02:01 | 96
Personal Tech
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
05 Oct 2021 22:26 | 64
Updated
We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage
It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s just DNS. It was BGP
04 Oct 2021 23:53 | 169
Updated
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally
Did someone at Menlo Park flick the wrong switch?
04 Oct 2021 17:43 | 142
Opinion
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends
Terms and conditions apply, and that’s a good thing
04 Oct 2021 08:30 | 190
Security
Which? survey finds people would actually pay the online giants not to take their data
On the other hand, sweeten the deal with a couple of quid and they'll be a lot more happy to share
30 Sep 2021 15:28 | 38
Legal
Facebook overpaid FTC fine by up to $4.9bn to protect Zuckerberg, lawsuits allege
A whole lot of ███ in documents which finger Peter Thiel and execs
23 Sep 2021 18:15 | 21
Comment
Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous
Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie
22 Sep 2021 22:02 | 7
Offbeat
Clegg on its face: Facebook turns to former UK deputy PM to fend off damaging headlines
Plus: US lawmakers get 'in touch with Facebook whistleblower'
20 Sep 2021 12:59 | 99
Software
Facebook building 'on-demand executable file format' that self-inflates using homebrew compression
Already shrinks The Social Network’s™ Android apps by 20 per cent compared to rivals, has uses beyond that
14 Sep 2021 08:15 | 47
Updated
Search 'middle finger' on Giphy: Basically Facebook's response to UK competition concerns over merger
'Fundamental errors' in CMA's findings, claims The Social Network
09 Sep 2021 13:43 | 17
SaaS
Element's latest bridge for Matrix: 'All the good stuff from WhatsApp, without the less good Facebook stuff'
For when it's time to kick that shadow IT habit
09 Sep 2021 08:30 | 3
Legal
Australia rules Facebook page operators are legally liable for user comments under posts
Good news for chap abused by online mob. Not so much for page admins
08 Sep 2021 20:28 | 64
Opinion
UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead
You can't reduce such a vital issue to concern over paedophiles and terrorists
08 Sep 2021 13:44 | 133
Storage
DRAM-as-cache is too expensive for even Facebook – Zuck now blending it with NVM SSD drives
Open-sources the tool it uses to make that happen and says Intel, Samsung, Open Compute, Western Digital and others are keen to play
03 Sep 2021 04:58 | 3
Legal
Facebook: Let us tell you WhatsApp – we don't want to pay that €225m GDPR fine
Zuckerborg plans to appeal Irish data protection slap
02 Sep 2021 14:27 | 32
Legal
Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog
Hands Zuck its second-largest fine ever, also makes Netflix pay up and warns Google to be more obvious about privacy
26 Aug 2021 04:57 | 22
Security
Facebook sat on report that reveals most-shared post for months was questionable COVID story
Then published its successor and claimed that was its debut effort
23 Aug 2021 03:31 | 51
Applications
Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious
Yes, it involves VR. Meanwhile, in the real world, the FTC would like a chat about competition
19 Aug 2021 20:33 | 62
Networks
The data must flow! Facebook and Google funding Apricot – a 12,000-kilometre sub cable across South-East-Asia
Nations from Indonesia to Japan to score 190 terabits per second of capacity some time in 2024
17 Aug 2021 02:16 | 1
Networks
Facebook and Amazon take over Philippines-to-USA sub cable after China Mobile quits
USA's Clean Networks plan appears to have scuppered Chinese participation in 108Tbit/sec CAP-1 cable
16 Aug 2021 06:33 | 31
Personal Tech
Once again, Facebook champions privacy ... of its algorithms: Independent probe into Instagram shut down
AlgorithmWatch ends newsfeed study after 'thinly veiled threat'
13 Aug 2021 22:53 | 16
Personal Tech
Perhaps regretting those Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions, UK watchdog suggests Facebook offloads GIF haven Giphy
BTW is that pronounced Jiffy or?
13 Aug 2021 06:33 | 20
On-Prem
Facebook now says it won't recall staff to its offices until 2022 due to delta variant
It's the Social distancing Network™
13 Aug 2021 00:33 | 8
Servers
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
11 Aug 2021 16:09 | 11
Off-Prem
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
11 Aug 2021 15:01 | 98
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