I figure that pretty much is the definition of nostalgia… E.g. 60s nostalgia is heavy on Beatles, and lite on Lawrence Welk, yet the latter was on TV all the damn time…
Lawrence Welk had too much sax and violins anyway.
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Trashing privacy? That’s our job! Facebook accuses analytics biz of harvesting people’s info from software dev kit sold to app makers
Data-driven ad biz Facebook filed a lawsuit in a San Francisco federal court on Thursday against another info-snarfing company for allegedly breaking the social network’s rules for gathering personal details.
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Facebook, distributor of deceptive political ads, sues registrar Namecheap over deceptive domain names
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AI startup accuses Facebook of stealing code designed to speed up machine learning models on ordinary CPUs
Firefox 74 slams Facebook in solitary confinement: Browser add-on stops social network stalking users across the web
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Well, Zuckerberg did promise India it hadn’t seen the last of Facebook. How do you say they’re BAAACK in Hindi?
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Same as it ever was. That’s what the Facebook app in my phone was doing 10 years ago.
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NSO Group: Facebook tried to license our spyware to snoop on its own addicts – the same spyware it’s suing us over
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Facebook’s Libra Association tries again at this digi-cash game, with more modest ambitions after global flop
The Facebook-founded Libra Association has revised its planned digital currency after regulatory concerns and public backlash made the project’s initial vision untenable.
Still very vague regarding privacy.
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Australia to make Google and Facebook disclose ranking algorithms and pay for local content
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Facebook defers $3bn of infrastructure spend because it’s hard to build bit barns when you’re working from home
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Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you’re suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services…
Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has rubbished Facebook’s claim it can be sued in California because it allegedly uses American IT services and has a business presence in the US.
If it feels like the software world is held together by string and a prayer, we don’t blame you: Facebook SDK snafu breaks top iOS apps
A change in the Facebook SDK backend managed to crash many popular iOS apps that integrated the code library, used for implementing various Facebook services.
Around 1330 PDT on Wednesday, software developers were stumped when their applications mysteriously crashed after being launched by users. Among those affected were Bumble, Doordash, Duolingo, Google, Pinterest, Soundcloud, Spotify, TikTok, Tinder, Venmo, The Walmart App, and others.
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Also, speaking as someone who has worked in two different software-driven industries now, you would be correct.
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Lawyers hail ‘superb result’ in Facebook biometric privacy battle: They’ll get 25% of $550m, Illinois gets the rest
The lawyers who successfully sued Facebook for breaking Illinois’s biometric privacy law on behalf of citizens in the US state have hailed the “superb result” that will see them receive a quarter of the settlement.
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Singapore’s mega-investment firm Temasek joins Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency effort
Singapore’s state-owned investment firm Temasek holdings has joined the Facebook-led Libra not-a-cryptocurrency project.
Because it’s impossible to make payments now? Sorry - there’s no problem paying with currency. This has other motivations that are not being put in the table.
It’s, it’s, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella… Facebook teaches its online tat bazaar to auto-identify stuff for sale
Facebook has revamped Marketplace, a platform where users can buy and sell stuff, with a bunch of AI-powered features that, it claims, can automatically recognize and label objects in pictures as well as transform 2D images into a 3D view.
At the heart of what it calls its “universal computer vision system” is a model called GrokNet. Trained on millions of real images posted by sellers on Marketplace, GrokNet spits out descriptions of objects in pictures, and can cope with nearly everything from cars to home decoration.
Facebook in a tizzy about 5 million paying users of its suits collab platform Workplace
Born too late to play the role of Star Trek’s Commander Data, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg took to the streams last night as the company confirmed a jump in users of its Workplace platform.
Having reached three million paid users by October 2019, the user count for Facebook’s take on enterprise collaboration has now hit the five million mark as the company bids to move from just being that thing Karen and Greg use to complain about social distancing in their local park to something more suitable for suits now stuck at home.
