Last minute geek

1. The Morning After: Facebook's latest data leak
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Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to your weekend! We regret to report there's more bad news to share about Facebook and how it's protecting your privacy. Some of the highlights ...

2. EFF's guide to creepy, surveillant Christmas gifts
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Topping the Electronic Frontier Foundation's don't-buy for Christmas list: Facebook's Portal in-home spycams, followed closely by Alexa/Google Home and other "home hubs"; Verizon's "AppFlash" spyware-equipped ...

3. Facebook gave third party developers access to 6.8 million users' private photos
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Facebook has notified 6.8 million users that, due to a bug, the company allowed its third-party developers to access all the users' photos, including those marked as private. Facebook says that the ...

4. The journalists Facebook installed as fact-checkers say the company is using them as window-dressing
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The journalists whom Facebook recruited to check the spread of policitized disinformation campaigns have called for an end to the program because Facebook has consistently ignored their recommendations, ...

5. Facebook, condivise milioni di foto non pubbliche
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Un bug nelle API delle foto ha permesso l’accesso a 876 sviluppatori a immagini che gli utenti non hanno mai pubblicato. The post Facebook, condivise milioni di foto non pubbliche appeared first on Webnews. ...

6. Facebook bug let apps access unposted photos for millions of users
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Facebook has disclosed yet another privacy flub. This time around, it says a bug in the Photo API led to third-party apps being able to access not only timeline photos (which users had permitted them to ...

7. Facebook's Portal video hub gains major news channels and recipes
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Facebook's Portal and Portal+ smart calling devices have only been available for a month, but they're already getting significant updates. The latest version will bring news content from ABC ...

8. Facebook might cut funding for some Watch news shows
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Facebook plans to cut the funding for some news shows on the Watch platform, according to The Information. The social media just renewed four Watch originals and recently brought the tab to desktop and ...

9. Facebook Watch su desktop, i numeri del 2018
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Facebook fa il punto della situazione su Watch annunciando anche la disponibilità su desktop e Facebook Lite. The post Facebook Watch su desktop, i numeri del 2018 appeared first on Webnews. Read all ...

10. Wear your ugly holiday sweater and Alaska Airlines will let you board early
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...  Ugly sweater contest @salonatwarren. Cast your vote on Instagram or Facebook. #uglysweater #contest #vote A post shared by E.M -Guate-lombian  ...

11. Come creare e vedere Il tuo anno su Facebook
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Il social network anche quest’anno offre la possibilità di usare la funzione Il tuo anno su Facebook che consente di vedere un video riassunto dell’anno. The post Come creare e vedere Il tuo anno su Facebook ...

12. Facebook renews 'Sorry for Your Loss' and three more Watch originals
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Facebook is renewing four of the most popular original shows available on its Watch video hub for a second season. They include the social network's biggest stab at creating a peak TV series in the ...

13. Facebook and ZeniMax settle VR copyright lawsuit
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John Carmack isn't the only one ending a legal fight with ZeniMax. Facebook and ZeniMax have agreed to settle a lawsuit that had accused Facebook and Oculus of violating copyright for the alleged ...

14. Facebook makes an even bigger deal of your 'Life Events'
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Big milestones deserve big announcements, which is why Facebook is giving its Life Events feature a revamp. Previously, when you added a Life Event such as an engagement, new job or birth of a child (or ...

15. Facebook and Instagram evacuated over bomb threat
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No one has been reported harmed. No bomb reported found. Police in Menlo Park, CA are at the Facebook and Instagram campus near the 200 block of Jefferson Avenue. According to multiple local news reports, ...

16. Facebook's headquarters evacuated due to bomb threat
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Tonight the police in Menlo Park, CA are on the scene near the 200 block of Jefferson Ave where the headquarters of Facebook and Instagram are located. According to local news stations KRON4 and NBC Bay ...

17. Woman whose son died at birth wrote this to tech firms who keep reminding her
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Gillian Brockell is very brave. We are so sorry for your loss, Gillian. “An open letter to @Facebook, @Twitter, @Instagram and @Experian regarding algorithms and my son's birth,” on Twitter: Earlier: Some ...

18. SantaCon leads to drunken vandalism
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... revelers were real jerks. SFGate: Two female suspects vandalized and struck an employee of a San Francisco restaurant after they were repeatedly asked to leave, according to SFPD. Videos shared to Facebook ...

19. Facebook patents tech that can guess where you're going next
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Facebook might not only know where you are in the future, but also where you're going next. Buzzfeed News has discovered that the social network has filed a patent application entitled "Offline ...

20. Facebook vuole ingegneri per la blockchain
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Zuckerberg è alla ricerca di vari ingegneri da inserire nel team blockchain di Facebook per avviare nuovi servizi e rendere più sicura la piattaforma. The post Facebook vuole ingegneri per la blockchain ...

21. Samsung Galaxy S10 rumor hints at a corner notch
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Samsung's prototype 5G phone might be more indicative of the Galaxy S10's design than first thought. An image posted by a Vietnamese Facebook user purports to show an S10 Plus prototype (indicated ...

22. Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook
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... of America's largest companies, including Facebook, a whack of payday lenders, Amazon, American Airlines, Amex, BoA, Capital One, Citigroup, John Deere, Equifax, Expedia, Experian, Glaxosmithkline, Goldman ...

23. Unbelievable protest video shows Paris looking like a war zone
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The Facebook-fueled anti-government protests in Paris, which began three weeks ago, starting off with a protest against high fuel taxes, look like something out of an intense apocalyptic movie. I'd only ...

24. The internet war on sex is here
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During the Great Internet Sex War, that began in the United States during its Facebook Era, people were forced to stockpile their porn. Lube was bought by the drum and hidden in bunkers, alongside vibrators ...

25. Paranoid, miserable Facebook employees have started using burner phones to complain about the company to each other and the press
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What do you do if you want to complain about your job but your employer is the poster-child for surveillance capitalism? Buy a burner phone. As Facebook's internal tensions "boil over," Buzzfeed reports ...