A Google+ security breach gave outside developers access to the private data of hundreds of thousands of the social network’s users between 2015 and March 2018, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Google neglected to report the breach to
Facebook’s moderators can’t possibly look through every single image that gets posted on the enormous platform, so Facebook is building AI to help them out. In a blog post today, Facebook describes a system it’s built called Rosetta that uses
Instagram is testing a way to allow users to tag their friends in their video posts, not just in photos. The option works similarly to tagging photos, but instead of pressing the small icon at the bottom left to see
Facebook is opening its first data center in Asia. The company announced today that it is planning an 11-story building in Singapore that will help its services run faster and more efficiently. The development will cost SG$1.4 billion, or around
Skype is getting a much-requested feature today: call recording. After weeks of testing, Microsoft is rolling out Call Recording for Skype to all users across platforms.Call recording has been a much-requested feature for Skype. For years, Skype users have been
Twitter advised users to change their passwords after the company found a bug in its systems that exposed passwords in plain text internally.The company said it removed the non-encrypted passwords from its system, and is working to avoid such an
Following last week’s suspension of 284 accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation,” Twitter announced today that it’s kicked an additional 486 accounts off the platform for the same reason, bringing the total to 770 accounts.While many of the accounts removed
What else could Facebook do to make its day worse? It took just 2 hours for the company to lose $150 billion in market cap in after-hours trading after its stocks tripped by 24% on Wednesday.The incident is being called
YouTube has faced a lot of community backlash in recent months regarding experiments it runs without proper communication. Now, after comments from CEO Susan Wojcicki, we’re getting early insight on an experiment running now for some iOS users.YouTube’s latest experiment
When you’re a company the size of Facebook with more than two billion users on millions of servers, running thousands of configuration changes every day involving trillions of configuration checks, as you can imagine, configuration is kind of a big
Skype’s redesign launched last year was met with mixed reviews, but the company is forging ahead by rolling out a number of its new features to other platforms, including the desktop. Microsoft today is launching Skype version 8.0 that will
YouTube on Monday announced a $25 million commitment to fighting fake news on its platform, part of the $300 million Google News Initiative launched in March.YouTube will show previews and links to news articles and their sources in its search