Twitter faces $250mn FTC fine over misuse of users’ data IANS Aug 4, 2020 Twitter has disclosed that it may end up paying up to $250 million as fine to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a probe…
US teen who executed Twitter hack owns Rs 22.5 crore worth Bitcoin IANS Aug 4, 2020 The Florida-based juvenile who is the mastermind of the mega Twitter Bitcoin hack owns more than $3 million (over Rs 22.5 crore)…
3 young hackers charged with compromising 130 top Twitter users IANS Aug 3, 2020 The US Department of Justice has charged three young individuals (including one juvenile) with hacking Twitter last month that…
Zuckerberg flagged competitors moving faster in 2012, show emails IANS Aug 3, 2020 Worried about being left behind by mobile apps that made quick progress by cloning other services, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
Facebook Messenger Rooms arrives on WhatsApp for Web IANS Aug 3, 2020 In the next step to integrate its family of apps that are being used by 3.14 billion users globally, Facebook has integrated…
Zuckerberg bought Instagram as it was a ‘threat’ to Facebook IANS Jul 31, 2020 The US House antitrust subcommittee has made public the email exchanges between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former chief…
Facebook logs solid growth in Q2, 3.14bn people use its apps IANS Jul 31, 2020 Facing ad boycott over its inaction to remove hate speech, Facebook shares surged over 7 per cent after the social network…
Facebook builds ML solution to spot harmful behaviour of people IANS Jul 28, 2020 Facebook has created a machine learning solution to train bots to realistically simulate the behaviour of real people on a social…
Facebook, Instagram to study if algorithms promoting racial bias IANS Jul 23, 2020 Alarmed at the growing hateful content on its platforms, Facebook and Instagram are building teams to look into and act upon…
Hackers accessed DM inbox of 36 users in crypto hack: Twitter IANS Jul 23, 2020 Twitter has revealed further details in the massive crypto hack, saying the hackers accessed the DM (direct message) inbox of up…