Facebook wants to let you share your WhatsApp status to Facebook and Instagram
What’s the first thing you can think of when you hear that Facebook is considering allowing WhatsApp users to share their status updates to Facebook, …
Facebook takes another completely unnecessary shot at Apple’s business model
Facebook and Apple have been taking thinly veiled shots at each other over the last few years, the cadence of which really picked up in …
Facebook’s Libra coin isn’t even out yet, but it’s already facing opposition in Europe
Facebook on Tuesday announced the Bitcoin rival it has been developing for the better part of a year: Libra. From the start, Facebook insisted on …
Facebook just announced its Bitcoin rival, but is it really safe and secure?
Just as expected, Facebook on Tuesday announced its Bitcoin rival called Libra, a cryptocurrency created by a Facebook subsidiary called Calibra that will be managed …
Unless Facebook can gain our trust, we’re not interested in its Bitcoin rival
Facebook on Tuesday is widely expected to release a white paper that explains how its upcoming Bitcoin rival, tentatively called Libra, will work. Libra won’t …
Accidental cat filter turns press conference live stream into a meme
In something of a ridiculous and yet lighthearted story, a Pakistani politician’s press briefing with journalists recently became comedic fodder after a cat filter was …
Instagram will make it easier to recover your password if your account is ever hacked
Whether they’re attempting to steal your Instagram account to sell it back to you for Bitcoin, or whether they have different plans with it, hackers …
Leaked Facebook emails might prove Zuckerberg knew about questionable privacy practices
Facebook is under investigation due to policies related to user privacy. Shocking, right? And this time around, things aren’t looking very good for the company, …
Facebook wants your actual blood
Facebook isn’t happy just hoarding your data for its own good, so now it wants your actual blood. But it’s all for a good cause, …
Facebook will pay you to let it spy on you
After coming under fire earlier this year for quietly paying users between the ages of 13 and 35 up to $20 a month in most …
Facebook will launch even more Portal smart speakers this year
In spite of all the privacy and user data abuse scandals that it had to face last year, Facebook still started selling its own smart …
Facebook to launch its Bitcoin rival as soon as this month
Facebook has been working on its own cryptocurrency for quite a while now, and it looks like the company is seeking to unveil its product …
Huawei receives another blow: No Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp apps on Android devices
Huawei has had a bad few weeks, as US companies responded to the Trump ban one after another. Whether it’s hardware such as chips from …
Fugitive promises to surrender because his wanted poster got 15,000 Facebook ‘likes’
A Connecticut police lieutenant made headlines today after successfully negotiating the terms under which a fugitive has agreed to surrender himself into custody. Twenty-nine-year-old Jose …
Even a Facebook co-founder thinks Mark Zuckerberg has way too much power
Chris Hughes hasn’t seen Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in-person since the summer of 2017, when Hughes, a fellow Facebook co-founder, hung out with Zuck at …
Facebook’s Bitcoin rival might be used to power a massive online payment system
We’ve known for a while now that Facebook formed its own blockchain team, and several reports said the company was working on a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency …
Facebook’s new ‘Secret Crush’ isn’t cute, it’s creepy
Facebook kicked off its F8 2019 event on Tuesday, announcing various new features for its social networks and chat apps. Facebook users were promised a …
Facebook to launch Messenger apps for Mac and Windows PC
Facebook made several huge announcements during its F8 2019 keynote, including some of them leaked a few hours earlier than expected. Among other things, Facebook …
Facebook just announced its most significant site redesign in its history
Earlier today, Facebook announced plans to roll out a complete redesign of its ever-popular website. While website overhauls are not uncommon, Facebook redesigns are particularly …
How to watch Facebook’s F8 2019 live stream
It’s not often that Facebook makes headlines for any of its achievements or advancements anymore, with new privacy concerns seemingly cropping up on a weekly …
Facebook could be fined up to $5 billion by the FTC due to privacy violations
Facebook has been dealing with one privacy-related scandal after another for more than a year now, a reality that’s about to present the social networking …
Facebook now says ‘millions’ of Instagram passwords were exposed, not ‘tens of thousands’
Well, that’s a heck of a revision. Back in March, as part of a disclosure about Facebook having learned that some user passwords were being …
Facebook is developing its own Alexa-like voice assistant that nobody asked for
Facebook is continuing to build out new technology that promises to extend its reach and capabilities well beyond the main blue app with its simple, …
Facebook is copying Snapchat again with a new way to browse the News Feed
Facebook’s new Snapchat-like “Stories” format could be about to completely transform your News Feed, if the latest scoop from app researcher Jane Manchun Wong comes …
Facebook’s latest mishap involves bizarre messages printed on Oculus controllers
Facebook is certainly dealing with its fair share of privacy snafus at the moment, a number that’s swelled considerably over the past 12 months or …
Facebook is thinking about bringing Messenger back to the main app
Of all the mistakes and confusing moves that Facebook has made over the years, one that still resonates to this day is the decision to …
Facebook is finally being forced to take privacy, security, and transparency seriously
Facebook has had a couple of rough years when it comes to transparency, user privacy, and security. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal from last spring …
Over 540 million Facebook user records leaked by third parties
In what has become a depressingly common refrain for the social network behemoth, Facebook user data has once again been left exposed to the public. …
Facebook will finally start explaining its choices for your News Feed
One of the least understood and arguably most disliked features of the Facebook user experience is the social network’s all-important, algorithmically-sorted News Feed. For the …
Shocker! Facebook improperly stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text
Over the past few years, Facebook hasn’t done much to convince users that it takes user privacy as seriously as it should. Indeed, it seems …
