Social Network

Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled

Talk about an unholy social media alliance

Offbeat12 Mar 2024 | 96

Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers

Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more

SaaS06 Feb 2024 | 21

Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins

Danger of remote account takeovers leaves lead devs scared of releasing many details

Security02 Feb 2024 | 20

Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges

Oz online safety czar receives evidence of cull despite platform reinstating hundreds of banned accounts

Personal Tech11 Jan 2024 | 119

Google Groups ditches links to Usenet, the OG social network

The online communities that arguably fuelled the search giant’s dominance have become too nasty to bother with

Software18 Dec 2023 | 102

We're feeling pretty anti about these social networks

Kettle Meta faces personal info processing ban, needs to Thread the trademark needle in the UK, while Musk loses out

Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 9

Twitter ad revenue has halved since Elon Musk took over

While Zuckerberg's Threads reels in users at record rates

Personal Tech17 Jul 2023 | 108

Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO

Opinion Though we're not sure NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino appreciates the description

Personal Tech12 May 2023 | 102

Deplatforming hate forums doesn't work, British boffins warn

Updated Industry intervention alone can't deal with harassment

Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 122

US House boots TikTok from government phones

ByteDance ban for federal devices awaits Biden’s signature

Security28 Dec 2022 | 13

Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting

Comment Plus: Elon Musk is now a number 2

Personal Tech13 Dec 2022 | 109

Meta scores $200k default win against alleged peddler of Instagram Likes

Manipulating users' feelings on a social media platform? That's our job!

Legal28 Nov 2022 | 3

Twitter set for more layoffs as Musk mulls next move

Plus: He ran a poll 51.8% in favor of overturning Donald Trump's ban... but some must be bots, right Elon?

Networks21 Nov 2022 | 131

Twitter refugees seek asylum in an unusual place: The Matt Hancock app

Move over, Mastodon – bungling UK politician's platform finds thousands of new users amid Elon Musk chaos

Bootnotes17 Nov 2022 | 32

Twitter's most valuable users are ghosting the platform

Fly, little birds: Damning internal research emerges just before Elon Musk buy

Offbeat26 Oct 2022 | 122

Weibo faces US stock exchange delisting

China's Twitter analog is latest in SEC crosshairs over audits

Legal24 Mar 2022 | 3

Microsoft to 600 million Indians: feel free to hand over some data

LinkedIn adds Hindi service to target the world's third-most-spoken language

Personal Tech06 Dec 2021 | 4

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rebrands himself a 'single point of failure' and quits

That's so Meta

Personal Tech29 Nov 2021 | 30

Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it

Updated If you're wondering why some websites disappeared today

PaaS + IaaS22 Jul 2021 | 37

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp pause usual data collection with an outage

Updated Social ad biz is working to restore service, for better or worse

Networks19 Mar 2021 | 14

CERT/CC: 'Sensational' bug names spark fear, hype – so we'll give flaws our own labels... like Suggestive Bunny

Officials go with randomly selected words with unintentionally hilarious results. Filthy Python, anyone?

Security03 Nov 2020 | 30

Who's essential right now? Medicos, of course. Food producers, natch. And in Singapore social media workers have made the list

The spicy memes must flow even under new ‘circuit breaker’ corona-crackdown

Legal08 Apr 2020 | 11

Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?

Taylor Swift of apps or ultimate ironic hipster shout-out?

Applications20 Feb 2020 | 47

Rome wasn't built in a day, wasn't teased in a day, either: AMD's 7nm second-gen 64-core Epyc server chips finally land

Updated After what feels like months of drip-fed info, here comes some much needed competition in the data center world

On-Prem07 Aug 2019 | 32

Getting the F... acebook out of Kea: Zuck's open-sourcerers retrain load balancer as a server

Replaces industry standard with homegrown DHCPLB code

On-Prem28 May 2019 | 3

From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move

Vast storage savings...er, tragic loss attributed to a data migration gone awry

Storage18 Mar 2019 | 89

Twitter. Android. Private tweets. Pick two... Account bug unlocked padlocked accounts

Cock-up went unnoticed for two Olympics, one World Cup, an EU referendum, and a US presidential election

Security18 Jan 2019 | 13

Latest Google+ flaw leads Chocolate Factory to shut down site early

52.5 million accounts at risk, tens of people are worried

Security11 Dec 2018 | 46

Go Zuck Yourself: Facebook destroys patent suit over timeline

Chalk one up in court for the Social Network

Personal Tech16 Aug 2018 | 26

What could Facebook possibly do next to reassure privacy fears? Yup – make a dating app

F8 We have all been trolled

Personal Tech01 May 2018 | 58

Twitter to upgrade from micro-blogging to milli-blogging with 280 chars

President Trump can now trigger nuclear Armageddon in half the time

Bootnotes26 Sep 2017 | 40

Microsoft to close its social network on a week's notice – and SIX people complain

Low-profile So.cl was an experiment, not a flop. Promise

On-Prem10 Mar 2017 | 39

Snapchap snaps back: Snapchat Snapbrats' Snapstats are Snapcrap

Ex-head of growth claims upstart's execs are fudging numbers ahead of IPO

On-Prem05 Jan 2017 | 18

The Zucker Mister Social Club: Facebook's daddy wants to be your friend, for realsies

Oh good. Another billionaire looking to get into politics

Legal04 Jan 2017 | 32

In its current state, Ubiquiti's EdgeSwitch won't have much of an edge on anyone

REVIEW Fantastic price, but connectivity more roulette than reliability

Networks27 Oct 2016 | 37

Czech, mate: Cops cuff Russian bloke accused of LinkedIn mega-hack

Vid Arrest caught on cam as chap enjoys lunch in Prague with his squeeze

Legal19 Oct 2016 | 7

Adblock Plus chalk talk takes stock: Facebook's gonna block our block of their block of our block? Let's rock

Filter-flinger suggests the FTC could even step in

Legal18 Aug 2016 | 31

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook ads

This arms race will never end

Legal12 Aug 2016 | 135

Facebook to forcefeed you web ads, whether you like it or not: Ad blocker? Get the Zuck out!

These silos of your personal information don't run themselves for free, folks

Legal09 Aug 2016 | 134

Oh snap! Facebook zaps crap yap gap in web chat, natter app flap

Bug would have allowed miscreants to rewrite messages

Security08 Jun 2016 | 5

North Korea clones Facebook, forgot to change default creds

Government that already spies on citizens decides it needs a social network

Legal31 May 2016 | 38

China caught astroturfing social networks

Harvard study blames state groups for 488m comments

Legal20 May 2016 | 38

FTC's Jerk ruling against ex-Napster boss upheld by court

In case you were wondering what John Fanning was up to these days

On-Prem18 May 2016 | 14

Back up the trucks for Zuck's bucks: Facebook revenues up 52 per cent

$5.4bn can buy a lot of laser drones

On-Prem27 Apr 2016 | 11

Egypt unfriended Facebook for Free Basics snoop snub

Zuck told to Giza the heck out of here

Networks01 Apr 2016 | 10

Time acquires Myspace, creates 2004's most fearsome media giant

Social networking has-been is Joe Ripp's problem now

Legal11 Feb 2016 | 20

Facebook kills Creative Labs, cuts support for mobile apps

Slingshot, Riff, and Rooms get zapped by Zuck

On-Prem07 Dec 2015 | 9

Want to defend your network? Profile the person attacking it

Sysadmin blog PART 1 – Can't keep them out, so catch them while they’re in

Security23 Nov 2015 | 14

'I posted winning race ticket in Facebook selfie ... and someone stole it!'

Photo Snap costs Oz lass $600 in winnings

Bootnotes04 Nov 2015 | 73

India's daft draft anti-encryption law torn up after world+dog points out its stupidity

But it may bounce back soon

Security22 Sep 2015 | 17

Dislike: Facebook scammers latch onto anti-Like button calls

Thumbs-down suggestion leads to the roll-out of all the old familiar scams

Security22 Sep 2015 | 19

Tech turned on its head: 'Dislike' button in Facebook, pay Snapchat $1 to defuse self-destructing sexy selfies

Will wonders never cease in Silicon Valley?

On-Prem15 Sep 2015 | 35

Manchester skeptics annexed in hostile digital power grab

Meetup.com takeover by mysterious 'Sophie' reveals flaws in site organisation rules

Security28 Aug 2015 | 22

Apple tries to patent facial recognition

Cupertino wants in on another area everyone loves and trusts – auto-photo-tagging

Personal Tech13 Aug 2015 | 42

Wanna harvest a stranger's Facebook data? Get a mobile number and off you go

'EVERYTHING FINE' insists Zuck's ad empire

Security12 Aug 2015 | 25

Facebook is raking in so much filthy lucre, it can't spend it fast enough

What's it aiming for with all that R&D dosh?

On-Prem29 Jul 2015 | 10