Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.
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Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.
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Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | d3sign) Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access...
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Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a major outage yesterday, Facebook, along with its sibling sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unreachable for hours. Real-time website status tracker DownDetector received over 14 million reports from users who couldn’t use the social media giant’s apps and services. But beyond the obvious inconvenience to those cut off from these services,...
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Were Down: Here’s What to Know
When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked out of their offices.
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Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]
Enlarge / Today’s global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning. (credit: Sean Gladwell via Getty Images / Jim Salter) Original story 1:26 pm EDT: Facebook—and apparently all the major services Facebook owns—are down today. We first noticed the problem...
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Windows 11: The Ars Technica review
(credit: Microsoft) Microsoft wanted everyone to use Windows 10. Faced with slow adoption of Windows 8 and the stubborn popularity of Windows 7, Microsoft made Windows 10 a free upgrade for anyone using either version—the offer technically expired years ago, but to this day, old Windows 7 and 8 product keys still activate Windows 10...
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Researcher refuses Telegram’s bounty award, discloses auto-delete bug
Enlarge (credit: Joshua Sortino) Telegram patched another image self-destruction bug in its app earlier this year. This flaw was a different issue from the one reported in 2019. But the researcher who reported the bug isn’t pleased with Telegram’s months-long turnaround time—and an offered $1,159 (€1,000) bounty award in exchange for his silence. Self-destructed images...
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(BPRW) NEW NextEra Energy Classroom Makeover Grant
(Black PR Wire) As part of our commitment to STEM education, the NextEra Energy Foundation will award up to 10 schools each a $50,000 classroom makeover grant to improve technology, equipment and resources for the next generation of innovators. This grant