‘We’re Sorry’: Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Slowly Coming Back Online After Six-Hour Outage

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp appear to be coming back online after several hours of error messages and outages, according to users with Facebook’s community of nearly 3 billion accounts. The company’s engineering team has issued an apology alongside an announcement of the return of its services. “To the huge community of people and businesses around […]

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Facebook’s smart glasses are an attempt to profit from our narcissistic culture, and also a cause for privacy concern

Facebook’s partnership with Ray-Ban to bring smart glasses to the market is not an innovation that solves any real-world problems – only the company’s unquenchable need to monetise the private data of its users. It is always necessary and valuable to ask what problem is being solved when confronted with a new technology or innovation. […]

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Google is reportedly building a Duolingo rival

According to a report by The Information (paywall), Google may be putting its AI expertise to work by helping people learn foreign languages. The move seems a fairly expected one, given that Google operates all over the world, has vast lakes of language data and features its own translation tools across a number of different […]

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Cyber Risk: Time to focus and take action

The impact of COVID-19 on financial institutions, the economic downturn, and changes to working practices have had broad implications for risk management. One of which is a growing concern for “Cybersecurity” in recent years, which has further increased during the COVID-19 period with employees working remotely. How has risk management responded and where does it […]

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‘System irregularity’ leaves Twitter users in the dark & support accounts down as outage continues

The massive outage affecting Twitter continues, with users around the world getting error messages saying “something went wrong” and being unable to log in. Twitter’s team says it’s investigating a “possible system irregularity.” Twitter users first experienced problems logging in and loading tweets on Friday night. Amid tens of thousands of error reports, the company’s […]

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Facebook Bans Users From Sharing New York Post Article About Black Lives Matter Co-Founder

The co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM), Patrisse Cullors, recently came under fire for her real estate purchases in Los Angeles that amounted to over $3 million. A Saturday article posted by the New York Post (NYP) detailed her recent million-dollar purchases and included a call for an investigation into the purchases from other BLM […]

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