Tag: Facebook

September 2, 2021

Cohort analysis is a way of evaluating your business that involves grouping customers into “cohorts” and observing how they behave over time. A commonly used approach is monthly cohort analysis, where customers are grouped by the month they signed up, […]

March 16, 2020

Workers at America’s largest companies are not covered under a bill passed by the House of Representatives on Friday that is supposed to support American workers impacted by the spread of the novel coronavirus. The bill still has to be […]

December 26, 2019

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019 From massive credential spills on the Dark Web and hacked data to card-skimming and rich profiles exposed by way of cloud misconfigurations, 2019 was a notable year for data breaches. […]

December 12, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission could force Facebook to back out of its plans to integrate its family of apps, including Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. According to the Journal’s exclusive, officials have grown fearful […]

November 20, 2018

Just when you thought Facebook has put the worst of its troubles behind, the social media giant revealed on Friday that it had experienced a new security incident that possibly affected 90 million users. However, unlike previous scandals, in which […]

July 13, 2018

The field of artificial intelligence, to those on the outside, must appear to be an orderly gathering of intellectuals collaborating at the cutting edge of technology. It’s not. If you dig beyond the hyperbole of Elon Musk and the wonders […]

July 6, 2018

“Personal data is the new oil of the internet and the new currency of the digital world.” Not my words, but words of Ms Kuneva, the European commissioner back in 2009. As much as the bureaucrats are removed from the […]

June 29, 2018

Facebook and Twitter have, within a few hours of each other, revealed new ad transparency measures this week. In both cases, the company in question reveals more details about what ads each account or page is running. It’s also offering […]

April 11, 2018

As Facebook sends its promised updates this week, telling users whether or not they were one of the 87 million whose personal data may have been scraped by Cambridge Analytica to create and position online political advertising, Jody Podolsky won’t […]

April 4, 2018

A team of international researchers recently taught AI to justify its reasoning and point to evidence when it makes a decision. The ‘black box’ is becoming transparent, and that’s a big deal. Figuring out why a neural network makes the […]

May 10, 2017

In late March when I got an unsettling message on my Gmail account: “Warning: Google may have detected government-backed attackers trying to steal your password.” Google sends them out when it detects a “government-backed attacker” has attempted to hack an account through phishing […]

April 6, 2017

After launching its rival to enterprise collaboration apps like Slack last October, Facebook told CNBC that it’s now working on a free edition of Workplace in order to sign up more companies to its service. It’ll be called Workplace Standard, […]

January 19, 2017

It’s not common for a security-conscious internet company to leave a well-known vulnerability unpatched for months, but it happens. Facebook paid a US$40,000 reward to a researcher after he warned the company that its servers were vulnerable to an exploit […]

November 18, 2016

Facebook’s Safety Check is a powerful tool to help users find out if their loved ones are okay in case they’re in an area struck by a natural disaster or crisis. It’s great, except for the fact that people have […]

November 15, 2016

Google plans to update its AdSense program policies to prevent placement of its ads on sites distributing fake news. Facebook also said Monday it had updated the policy for its Audience Network, which places ads on websites and mobile apps, […]

October 19, 2016

Facebook’s bid to open up networking is moving up into nosebleed territory for data centers. The company’s 100-gigabit switch design has been accepted by the Open Compute Project, a step that should help to foster an open ecosystem of hardware […]

October 10, 2016

Facebook is launching an all new app today dedicated solely to events, the creatively named Events from Facebook.’ It’s basically a glorified calendar with some useful social media chops. The key feature is discovery: Open up the app and you […]

October 5, 2016

Facebook has rolled out end-to-end encryption for all 900 million Messenger users so your conversations can’t be monitored by third parties. However, the new feature isn’t as usable as it needs to be. You’ll need to manually enable the ‘Secret […]

September 13, 2016

Facebook bots will now be able to conduct business and display their own custom user interfaces, after an update aimed at enhancing its platform capabilities. With Monday’s update, companies like travel search site Hipmunk will be able to sell users […]

September 2, 2016

Serving more than a billion people a day, Facebook has its work cut out for it when providing customized news feeds. That is where the social network giant takes advantage of deep learning to serve up the most relevant news […]