Facebook has reached a preliminary agreement to end litigation with users of the platform who are seeking damages and interest because it allowed third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access their personal data. In a document filed yesterday Friday in a San Francisco court, Facebook refers to the “agreement in principle” and requests a 60-day […]
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Facebook: Cyber spies trap mobiles with fake ‘bug’ versions of WhatsApp and Signal
By Thomas Brewster A cyber espionage group – believed to be operating out of India and Pakistan – is tracking thousands of citizens through malware disguised as popular messaging apps, a new Facebook report reveals. The report details the action of the Bitter APT group, which installs malware on Android devices via fake versions of […]
Meta: Facebook’s parent company slightly missed estimates, predicts a big drop in revenue
Facebook’s parent company Meta’s second-quarter results came in slightly below market estimates, but it downgraded its revenue estimates for the next quarter. Specifically, Meta reported earnings of $2.46 per share, while analysts were expecting $2.59, according to Refinitiv data. At the same time, it saw revenue for the quarter at 28.82 billion euros against an […]
Facebook changes everything: 5 profiles for each user
A radical change of course – and rules – for Facebook. The platform is in fact testing the possibility of use multiple profiles with a single account. Contradicting in part – or at least heavily watering down – one of the cornerstones of his policies: that each account corresponds (possibly, although often not so) a […]
Europe can live without Facebook and Instagram
Ireland’s data protection regulator has moved a step closer to a ruling that could halt EU-US data transfers from Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram, according to an updated draft shared with other EU regulators on Thursday, Reuters reported. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued an interim injunction in 2020 to block the mechanism Meta uses to […]
Meta’s new AI system can translate 200 languages
Meta, the owner of Facebook, has announced that it has created a new artificial intelligence model that can translate 200 different languages. The company even claims that the system with the characteristic name “No Language Left Behind – NLLB 200” not only translates more languages than corresponding systems of its competitors (Google Translate translates 133 […]
USA-Meta: 30% fewer engineers will be hired this year
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc has cut its plans to hire engineers this year by at least 30%, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees yesterday as he warned them to prepare for a deep decline in the economy. Meta has cut its 2022 engineer hiring goal by about 6,000-7,000 below its original plan to hire about […]
Instagram, ready for change?
Adam Mosseri, right arm of Mark Zuckerberg and head of Instagram, he has been very active in recent months with the announcements on his personal profile. The most important of the recent ones is the changing the graphics of the main newsfeed of the social network. That is to say that from the beginning of […]
Facebook, spring cleaning: here are all the functions that close
Facebook does the spring cleaning. Some features, which exploited the data related to the location of the devices, will be deleted from apps for Android and iOS / iPadOS starting at the end of the monththat is, from May 31st. The best known of the features that users will no longer be able to use […]
Ukraine: Autonomous provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk block access to Facebook and Instagram
Russia’s pro-Russian “Democratic Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine announced today that they have blocked access to Facebook and Instagram, in line with Russian policy on US-based social networking platforms. Moscow recognized the two regions as independent on February 21 and three days later launched an attack on Ukraine, the “special military operation” […]