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WhatsApp displayed phone numbers of users in Google search results

WhatsApp displayed phone numbers of users in Google search results

WhatsApp users who used the Click to Chat feature in the app unknowingly had their phone number appear in Google's search results. An estimated amount of 300.000 phone numbers of WhatsApp users worldwide were published online. Cybersecurity expert Athul Jayaram discovered the problem after he no... Read more

date4 years ago
Facebook launches new Business Inbox in Messenger for companies

Facebook launches new Business Inbox in Messenger for companies

Facebook launched Business Inbox for companies that often receive customer messages on the platform. With Business Inbox, you no longer have to switch between accounts to respond to those messages. The new inbox should make it easier to switch to a business page, similar to switching between pag... Read more

date4 years ago
Facebook rolls out 50-person video chat for Messenger Rooms

Facebook rolls out 50-person video chat for Messenger Rooms

Facebook rolls out Messenger Rooms, making it possible for up to 50 people to participate in a video call at the same time. The functionality will initially be available in the United States, Mexico and Canada, but in the next few days, the rest of the world will also be able to set up a convers... Read more

date4 years ago
Facebook takes on Zoom with new Messenger Rooms

Facebook takes on Zoom with new Messenger Rooms

Facebook announced its new video conferencing tool called Messenger Rooms. With the move to videoconferencing, the company hopes to attract more users to Facebook at a time when people are using other tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams a lot. Messenger Rooms supports video calls up to 50 par... Read more

date4 years ago
Facebook tried to buy spyware to monitor iOS users

Facebook tried to buy spyware to monitor iOS users

New documents presented in the court case between Facebook and the spyware manufacturer NSO Group show how Facebook attempted to buy spyware (Pegasus) from the Israeli group years ago. This could potentially have been used to better monitor iOS users. Facebook filed a lawsuit against the NSO Gro... Read more

date4 years ago
Facebook AI tracks 900 million fake accounts in 2 years

Facebook AI tracks 900 million fake accounts in 2 years

With over two and a half billion users, Facebook has a lot of work to do in tracking down fake accounts. These accounts are used to push pages or promote content. Facebook's advanced AI makes the task of tracking down fake accounts a little easier, as the program has tracked down hundreds of millio... Read more

date4 years ago
Facebook acquires computer vision startup Scape Technologies

Facebook acquires computer vision startup Scape Technologies

Scape Technologies, a startup specialised in computer vision, has in all likelihood been taken over by Facebook. TechCrunch reports that the top level of the company has been replaced by Facebook employees and that it owns more than 75 percent of the shares. The takeover would have been accompan... Read more

date4 years ago
Facebook open-sources PyTorch3D

Facebook open-sources PyTorch3D

Facebook's research division has open-sourced the code for PyTorch3D. PyTorch 3d is a toolkit designed to improve the development of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can work in three-dimensional environments. The ability of AI models to understand 3D spaces is essential for certain appl... Read more

date4 years ago
137 countries agree to new tax rules for tech giants

137 countries agree to new tax rules for tech giants

Large tech companies moving to countries from which it is possible to operate more cheaply, because of favourable tax rates; it happens often. In an attempt to prevent such practices in the future, 137 countries have joined forces to tighten up tax rules for large companies including Amazon and Goo... Read more

date4 years ago
Facebook open-sources AI models for navigation

Facebook open-sources AI models for navigation

Facebook has created a number of open source AI models that, according to the company, have an accuracy of 99.99 percent. The models are designed to allow robots to navigate indoor spaces without the use of maps. The models should eventually lead to a way to create smart robots and voice assista... Read more

date4 years ago
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