Facebook said in a statement that from April, “UK sales made directly by our UK team will be booked in the UK not Ireland. Facebook U.K. will then record the revenue from these sales.” It said the change would “provide transparency to Facebook’s operations in the UK.” Income from some of its largest advertisers will now be taxed in the UK after the company announced stopping routing profits through Ireland....
Facebook apologizes for popping up unwarranted Year In Review messages in users timelineFacebook apologises It may sound freakish but in case you have put up a photo of death of a near and dear one in the family, and the photo has been most liked, Facebook’s Year In Review algorithm will rather cruelly put up that photo in your timeline with a rather inhumane and insensitive tag “It’s been a great year!...
Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook’s head of product management for messaging products, said that Facebook Messenger does not receive location information about you unless location services are enabled on your phone for the app. According to him the Facebook Messenger app does not gather location data in the background and does not ask for new permissions for your information. The new feature is active in both Android and iOS devices, to disable location tracking on your Android smartphone, go to Settings > Location sharing and switch it to off....
Facebook has been urging U.S security agency to let them provide more transparency and flexibility around national security orders they have been complying with. as a result Facebook is now able to include a transparency report all U.S. national security-related requests (including FISA as well as National Security Letters) – which until now no company has been permitted to do. For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U....
While Facebook’s Messenger is great for many things, its most recent among them is tracking sleep. There is now a tool that uses the data collected from Messenger to track just how much sleep your friends are getting. Soren Louv-Jansen, a Danish coder at Tradeshift, discovered a way to track his friends’ sleeping habits through Messenger by coding a simple program that collects digital IDs and receipts left behind by the platform....
“Meta has developed what we believe is the world’s fastest AI supercomputer,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement. “We’re calling it RSC for AI Research SuperCluster and it’ll be complete later this year.” Currently, AI can perform tasks like translating text between languages and helping identify potentially harmful content, but developing the next generation of AI will require powerful supercomputers capable of quintillions of operations per second. According to Meta, RSC will help its AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples; work across hundreds of different languages; seamlessly analyze text, images, and video together; develop new augmented reality tools; and much more....
In a recent security review, the social networking giant found that the apps- primarily social media management and video streaming apps – retained access to information like names and profile pictures of members in various Facebook groups, linked with their activity in those Groups, from the Groups API (application programming interface), despite announcing Groups API restrictions in April 2018. Facebook found that at least 11 developers improperly accessed users’ information in the last 60 days through the Groups API....
Facebook’s rapid rise may point out investor confidence that the company will persist in increasing mobile-advertising sales on its application and others. To some extent, the increase in value also reflects froth in tech stocks; since Facebook went public, the Nasdaq Internet Index has almost doubled. Facebook’s shares trade at 87 times earnings, almost five times the average in the S&P 500. At the same time, companies in the Nasdaq Internet Index trade at a price-earnings ratio of 27....
Now, Facebook has decided to delete any photos that were previously in a Synced folder unless users download and log into Moments to transfer them before July 7. Users who don’t want to use Moments but want to save their photos can download the files right now on their computer. Facebook launched Moments standalone App for FB users in June 2015 to help users performs a similar auto-syncing function. The app also scans your your mobile photos to identify faces and match them to your Facebook friends....
Shane Tusch, a resident of San Mateo, wanted to check out if this suicide prevention tool is real or not! On 26th February 2015, Tusch posted his frustrations regarding the stress he had been facing due to first amendment made to his home loan by the bank. He posted that he was undergoing trouble paying his bank debts for quite some time and in the post he declared that he would take his life in some public place....
Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in London, Comey was asked by a moderator how much the FBI paid for the software that eventually broke into the iPhone. Comey said, “A lot. More than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, for sure. But it was, in my view, worth it?…?I think it was very, very important that we got into that device....
The reason behind the attack, was that forbes “posted many articles against the SEA, with much hate for Syria.” said Syrian Electronic Army.It is still unknown how the Syrian Electronic Army managed to hack into the WordPress and Twitter Accounts of the Forbes, looking back on the previous Attacks of Syrian Electronic Army on Gurdian, Onion, Microsoft and several other High profile media groups, it could possibly the Phishing campaign used to Compromise the Accounts....
For those unaware, Share-Online.biz was a popular file hosting platform with an average of 10 million monthly users that had hosted millions of files on several hundred servers. It allowed unregistered users to upload video and music content up to 1GB, while premium account users were allowed to upload up to 2GB for each file. On October 16, numerous commercial and residential properties in the Netherlands, in France and in Germany were searched and “extensive evidence” was secured....
If you are still wondering if the report is too good to be true, in that case, you should note that this app can easily operate on several platforms such as Android or iOS, and this app is not dependent on any hardware or bionic sensor, which is present in iPhone X. There the app runs equally well on both the leading mobile operating systems. Isn’t very cool, when you can enjoy the same features without having an iPhone?...
Aw, Snap! If you are facing issues running google chrome on windows 10 then you are not alone, lots of users have reported the same after the new windows 10 update. The majority of these issues are reportedly coming from Symantec endpoint protection users, in this case, you should first update your Antivirus. While there can be several reasons why chrome is not working for you or is crashing on your PC....
For those unaware, VRP was launched in January 2010 to reward the contributions of security researchers who invest their time and effort in finding and reporting bugs to Google to help keep the Internet safe and secure. Over the past 10 years, 11,055 bugs have been reported in the company’s various platforms and resolved via VRP. Further, a total number of 2,022 researchers from 84 different countries worldwide have been rewarded to the tune of $29,357,516 among them....
However, according to Google support staff, the explanation provided was that the user’s purchases appeared fraudulent, since the user’s address details fluctuated and also the billing information with Google wasn’t current. While the user is not convinced if this is the reason he had been locked out but during his interactions with Google support to find out why, he was told that “It is our policy to not discuss the specific reasons for an account closure....
“Today, we’re making it easier for you to make decisions about your data directly within the Google products you use every day, starting with Search. Without ever leaving Search, you can now review and delete your recent Search activity, get quick access to the most relevant privacy controls in your Google Account, and learn more about how Search works with your data,” said Google’s Eric Miraglia, Director of Product Management, Privacy and Data Protection Office in a blog post....
According to Google’s Chrome blog, the update Chrome 45 promises to improve RAM usage, the overall performance of the browser, speed up the launch time, and reduce battery usage. Chrome has long had the option to “continue where you left off” by restoring tabs when you relaunch Chrome. Now, Chrome restore your tabs more efficiently and the browser opens those tabs first that you most recently looked at saving your time....
