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
'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 Personal Tech17 Nov 2021 | 27
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
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 Applications10 Nov 2021 | 4
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 Personal Tech05 Nov 2021 | 25
Facebook ditches its creepy, controversial robot – yes, its facial-recognition AI Updated Social network is going to sit this one out until clear rules are formulated AI + ML02 Nov 2021 | 14
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? Personal Tech01 Nov 2021 | 27
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 Networks29 Oct 2021 | 9
Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done Comment His social network has Meta-stasized Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 225
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 Personal Tech28 Oct 2021 | 70
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 Off-Prem26 Oct 2021 | 66
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 Security25 Oct 2021 | 47
Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe Updated That rebrand can't come soon enough Legal20 Oct 2021 | 41
Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids Poll We've kicked things off with the most splendidly evil fictional corporations, feel free to share your ideas Offbeat20 Oct 2021 | 239
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 Personal Tech19 Oct 2021 | 16
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 Bootnotes18 Oct 2021 | 47
Instagram is testing feature that tells panicking users the service is broken again Have you tried reading books? Bootnotes12 Oct 2021 | 46
The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time Opinion Zucks to lose your #HugOps Networks11 Oct 2021 | 150
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 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 Networks06 Oct 2021 | 96
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
We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage Updated It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s just DNS. It was BGP Networks04 Oct 2021 | 169
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally Updated Did someone at Menlo Park flick the wrong switch? Networks04 Oct 2021 | 142
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends Opinion Terms and conditions apply, and that’s a good thing Security04 Oct 2021 | 190
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 Security30 Sep 2021 | 38
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 Legal23 Sep 2021 | 21
Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous Comment Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie SaaS22 Sep 2021 | 7
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' Offbeat20 Sep 2021 | 99
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 Software14 Sep 2021 | 47
Search 'middle finger' on Giphy: Basically Facebook's response to UK competition concerns over merger Updated 'Fundamental errors' in CMA's findings, claims The Social Network Legal09 Sep 2021 | 17
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 SaaS09 Sep 2021 | 3
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 Legal08 Sep 2021 | 64
UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead Opinion You can't reduce such a vital issue to concern over paedophiles and terrorists Security08 Sep 2021 | 133
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 Storage03 Sep 2021 | 3
Facebook: Let us tell you WhatsApp – we don't want to pay that €225m GDPR fine Zuckerborg plans to appeal Irish data protection slap Legal02 Sep 2021 | 32
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 Legal26 Aug 2021 | 22
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 Security23 Aug 2021 | 51
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 Applications19 Aug 2021 | 62
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 Networks17 Aug 2021 | 1
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 Networks16 Aug 2021 | 31
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