Facebook malicious apps warning: Who is at risk, how to stay safe

Facebook malicious apps warning: Who is at risk, how to stay safe

A recent incident at Meta’s Facebook left users worried as the social media giant announced earlier this week that over a million users may have had their credentials compromised. The reason behind the security lapse – malicious apps that tricked users into giving the app their login credentials under false guises. The bigger problem around […]

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Facebook is warning 1 million users about stolen usernames, passwords

Facebook is warning 1 million users about stolen usernames, passwords

Meta Platforms Inc. said it would notify roughly 1 million Facebook users that their account credentials may have been compromised due to security issues with apps downloaded from Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s software stores. The company announced Friday that it identified more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps this year that target internet […]

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Facebook, Instagram users in the US can now connect wallets and share NFTs

Facebook, Instagram users in the US can now connect wallets and share NFTs

Meta announced that Facebook and Instagram users in the US can now connect their crypto wallets and share their digital collectibles on the platform. These users can also cross-post their digital collectibles across both Facebook and Instagram. This feature was earlier available to select influences and creators on the platform. Once a user connects their […]

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Grimes says Mark Zuckerberg ‘under qualified’ to launch the metaverse

Grimes says Mark Zuckerberg ‘under qualified’ to launch the metaverse

Grimes, a popular Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “under-qualified” to launch the metaverse. “If Zuck oversees the Metaverse it is dead and people who care about art and culture are building something else,” the singer tweeted, in response to Zuckerberg’s recent interview with Joe Rogan. Grimes– who […]

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Irish regulators fine Instagram 405 million euros for data breach

Irish regulators fine Instagram 405 million euros for data breach

The penalty is the second-biggest issued under the European Union’s stringent privacy rules The penalty is the second-biggest issued under the European Union’s stringent privacy rules Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers’ personal data. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said by email on […]

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Meta, Qualcomm sign pact on custom virtual reality chips

Meta, Qualcomm sign pact on custom virtual reality chips

Meta Platforms Inc signed an agreement to have chip-maker Qualcomm Inc produce custom chipsets for its Quest virtual reality (VR) devices, the companies announced at a consumer electronics conference in Berlin on Friday. Engineering and product teams of both companies will work together to produce the chips, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platforms, they said in […]

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Meta’s Facebook agrees to settle data privacy lawsuit

Meta’s Facebook agrees to settle data privacy lawsuit

Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users, a court filing showed. The financial terms were not disclosed in the filing on Friday that asked the judge to put the class […]

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Meta’s chatbot says Zuckerberg’s business practices are ‘not always ethical’

Meta’s chatbot says Zuckerberg’s business practices are ‘not always ethical’

Meta (formerly Facebook) recently released its new chatbot dubbed BlenderBot 3 to the public. The purpose of the release is to use help from users to contribute to the tool’s conversational research. This basically refers to training the chatbot to better understand and respond to conversation. While Meta had acknowledged that responses by the bot […]

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Meta Facebook puts AI chatbot BlenderBot 3 to test as Google races ahead

Meta Facebook puts AI chatbot BlenderBot 3 to test as Google races ahead

Meta understood early on that language models perform better when they learn from chatting with people. This experience helps the model understand based on the feedback it gets from users Meta understood early on that language models perform better when they learn from chatting with people. This experience helps the model understand based on the […]

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says Meta’s metaverse ‘will misfire’

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says Meta’s metaverse ‘will misfire’

Meta’s attempts to create a metaverse are not “going anywhere”, said Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. He believes that Meta’s concept of a virtual space will only “misfire.” The metaverse is a blend of offline and online experiences in an interactive digital space, where social interactions and transactions can occur simultaneously. In a tweet responding to […]

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