Meta: Facebook, Instagram & Threads

8+ hour, 29+ min ago   (401+ words) A California law written in 1967 to stop wiretapping on telephone lines has become the basis for thousands of lawsuits arguing that everyday website tools, chat widgets, tracking pixels and analytics scripts amount to illegal interception of a visitor's communications. The…...

42+ min ago   (274+ words) Ever wanted to hear your group chat's worst message set to a pop chorus? Snapchat can do that now. Snap announced a batch of new AI features for Lens+, its premium tier, on Monday, and the headliner is Create Song....

1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (458+ words) In Marin, our version of that diligence often starts in an attorney’s office. Yet almost none of that paperwork accounts for our newest, most chaotic potential mess: the one locked behind a four- or six-digit iPhone passcode. Planning a digital…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (176+ words) If you have been frantically refreshing your feed only to be met with endless loading screens, you aren't alone. A widespread Facebook Instagram outage has left millions of users around the globe staring at blank screens, unable to share updates…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago   (391+ words) A new Meta app is drawing attention with rapid growth, but differences in launch markets and platforms make the comparison more complex. Meta’s AI app Muse got off to a faster start than ChatGPT when it entered the mobile market....

2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (641+ words) Social media companies have a tendency to talk about how seriously they take the safety of their users, especially children. A good way to demonstrate this would be to stop litigating regulators who put restrictions on their products in an…...

5+ hour, 24+ min ago   (312+ words) Facebook and Instagram went down for users across the United States and internationally on Sunday night September 20, beginning shortly before 9 PM Eastern and generating more than 17,000 outage reports on Downdetector for Facebook alone and over 5,000 for Instagram within the first…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (207+ words) Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a California resident who claimed the company violated an anti-hacking law by allegedly collecting his "voiceprint" when he made a call with Messenger. He alleged that Meta's "maze…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago   (748+ words) Home » News » WhatsApp Launches Stronger Passkeys and Long Passwords for Two-step Verification WhatsApp is once again tightening up account security, working on two of the easiest ways an account could be compromised: single passkey and short, guessable PIN. The update…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (117+ words) Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for violating the European Union’s privacy regulations by improperly processing users’ location data. The fine was issued by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the lead EU regulator for Google due to its European headquarters…...