reader comments 40 with Apple has officially joined Meta and TikTok in appealing the European Union’s designation of their services as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA)—a strict EU antitrust law aimed at “preventing gatekeepers from imposing unfair conditions on businesses and end users” and “ensuring the openness of important digital services.” On Friday, ..
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Enlarge / In addition to craters, Mercury’s terrain features faults generated by the planet’s cooling. reader comments 18 with The planet Mercury may be hot, but it appears to be cooling down. That’s the conclusion of a new study that looked for the kinds of features on Mercury that can form as the surfaces of ..
Apriamo WhatsApp. Una tra le tante notifiche che ci arrivano, è solo un aggiornamento delle normative della piattaforma, “ok acconsento”. Impennata di download di Telegram, boom di iscrizioni su Signal, sono passati pochi giorni: WhatsApp viene messo sotto accusa e si apre un caso sulla privacy come mai era successo.«Io personalmente l’ho già cancellato e ..
reader comments 92 with 64 posters participating Share this story Link previews are a ubiquitous feature found in just about every chat and messaging app, and with good reason. They make online conversations easier by providing images and text associated with the file that’s being linked. Unfortunately, they can also leak our sensitive data, consume ..
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Earlier this year, a federal judge in Fresno, California, denied prosecutors’ efforts to compel Facebook to help it wiretap Messenger voice calls. But the precise legal arguments that the government made, and that the judge ultimately rejected, are still sealed. On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union formally asked the ..
reader comments 109 Share this story A Russian court has paved the way for the government to block the Telegram messaging app over its creators’ failure to provide authorities with access to users’ encrypted messages, it was widely reported on Friday. Russia’s state communications watchdog sought the ban last Friday in a lawsuit that asked ..
Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images reader comments 189 Share this story Hours ago, Facebook admitted that Mark Zuckerberg had given himself special powers to delete old Facebook messages from recipients’ inboxes—a feature that’s not available to ordinary Facebook users. Now, in a remarkable coincidence, the company told Techcrunch’s Josh Constine it ..
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. Mark Zuckerberg reader comments 90 Share this story Facebook has been quietly deleting old messages from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg out of their recipients’ Facebook Messenger inboxes, the company has acknowledged. This isn’t an option available to ordinary users. Users can delete their own copy of a ..
Enlarge / Thumbs down for this week’s weird Facebook survey. reader comments 104 Share this story Facebook’s ongoing effort to solicit user feedback reached a bizarre low over the weekend. As reported by The Guardian, the social network included a question in a survey that allowed responders to indicate that FB should allow illegal, sexualized ..