Meta rolls out a beta of Threads' fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated tools like Mastodon
tbh, same. ✨ The big idea: Threads is helping people find community, no matter which platform they use. … Mastodon: Alex Standiford / @alexstandiford@fosstodon.org : Looks like Me...
Meta details its two new data center scale clusters, both containing 24,576 Nvidia H100 GPUs that the company is using for AI workloads like training Llama 3
Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics :
Meta rebrands Facebook's Watch tab as Video, which will now include all visual content like Reels, long-form content, and live videos, and adds editing features
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Meta warns malware actors are increasingly spreading their infrastructure across platforms and has blocked 1,000+ ChatGPT-themed malicious URLs since March 2023
Lily Hay Newman / Wired :
WhatsApp rolls out new device verification and account protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and other social engineering attacks
WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features. The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users …
WhatsApp rolls out new device verification and account protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and other social engineering attacks
WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features. The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users …
Telegram says it added 70M users on Monday amid the outage of Facebook's products; Telegram recently reported passing 1B total downloads and 500M MAUs
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Source: Durov's Channel .
Facebook says a command issued to assess the availability of global backbone capacity caused its outage, in a post offering more details on its recovery efforts
Santosh Janardhan / Facebook Engineering :
Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours
Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now …
Facebook employees and an internal memo say that, several hours into the incident, Facebook's security experts were still trying to identify the root issue
When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers …
Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours
Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now …
Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp will start rolling out e2e encrypted backups to iOS and Android users in the coming weeks as an optional feature
WhatsApp said on Friday it will give its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat backups to the cloud, taking a significant step to put …
Facebook says it has planned two new undersea cables in a project with Google and local telcos to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America
Facebook formally open-sourced Pysa, a static analyzer tool for Python code, which detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side code in H1 2020
In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code.
Facebook says it plans to complete the rollout of its redesigned desktop website to all users over the “next few weeks”
This week we introduced the new Facebook.com. Nick Statt / The Verge : Facebook's redesigned desktop site with dark mode is now available everywhere Ravish Bhatia / Turnaround : WT...
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and its codebase from 1.7M to 360K lines of code
To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now.
Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland
In Facebook CEO Mark … Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post : The Technology 202: Researchers uncover Russian-style information operation ahead of U.K. elections William Morland / Face...
Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland
In Facebook CEO Mark … Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post : The Technology 202: Researchers uncover Russian-style information operation ahead of U.K. elections William Morland / Face...
Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland
At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another.