Facebook’s Official Page Hacked; Demand Release of Pakistani PM Imran Khan

By Deeba Ahmed
Facebook’s official page was hacked on Facebook after bizarre posts, including demands for the release of ex-Pakistani PM…
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Smashing Security podcast #296: Twitter turmoil, AI animal chatters, and metaverse at work

Twitter has a new chief twit in the form of Elon Musk and he’s causing problems, scientists say artificial intelligence may help us communicate with animals, and is the office of the future set in the metaverse? All this and much more is discusse… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #296: Twitter turmoil, AI animal chatters, and metaverse at work

Mark Zuckerberg tells employees Facebook’s ‘encryption’ will protect abortion-seeking users

Facebook has said it plans to fully roll out end-to-end encryption across its services by mid-2023.

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Meta’s Universal Translator Will Not Be the End of Human Translation

By Owais Sultan
Will Meta’s Universal Translator be the end of human translations in the translation agency? This article examines why…
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Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems

Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has built a platform to help with this challenge specifically in the area of life sciences — and has, notably, been used by labs to sequence […] Continue reading Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems

Stalkers: ‘Ugly Truth’ of Facebook Staff Abusing Private Data

A new book exposes yet another Facebook failure for the social media firm to say sorry about. But nothing’s going to change.
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Senator hammers Facebook, Instagram over COVID-19 misinformation

One day after a House panel grilled social media executives about misinformation on their platforms, a top senator blasted Facebook for its “continued amplification of harmful” posts about COVID-19, especially via Facebook-owned Instagram. Senate Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, saying the company needed to do more to eradicate misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine than promising action. “Facebook’s enforcement of its own policies is consistently and demonstrably insufficient, a trend we have seen in other areas where Facebook has pledged to address misuse of its products or instances of its products amplifying harmful content,” Warner said in the letter. Warner juxtaposed Facebook’s February update of its policies on medical misinformation with the fact that on the day it announced them, some of the top search results for “COVID vaccine” on Instagram lead to anti-vaccine accounts. In particular, Warner said he was disturbed by a […]

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Facebook bans Trump indefinitely; risks ‘simply too great,’ Zuckerberg says

Facebook’s lockdown of President Donald Trump’s account will now last at least two weeks and possibly longer, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday morning. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg said in a post announcing that a 24-hour ban instituted Wednesday evening would be extended “indefinitely.” The lockdown also applies to Trump’s Instagram account. Zuckerberg’s decision comes as social media platforms continue to reckon with Trump’s incitement of a mob that entered the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday with the intent of disrupting the count of Electoral College ballots that would certify Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. Trump’s repetition Wednesday of baseless claims about election fraud capped weeks of buildup among supporters who planned to descend on Congress. Many of the conversations encouraging Americans to descend on the Capitol occurred on social […]

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