The record-breaking music video for Despacito disappeared temporarily from YouTube on Tuesday due a security breach affecting video platform Vevo. Five days ago, Luis Fonsi’s video racked up the most views in YouTube history, topping 5 billion. Its disappearance was not unique. More than a dozen other singers, including Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Drake and Shakira, …

Facebook’s failure to properly protect user data might have spawned headlines the world over, but Americans are not totally shocked by the revelations, according to a poll by CBS News. That doesn’t mean they’re letting the social network off the hook, though. Poll respondents think the company’s response to the scandal, triggered by revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s access to the …

Remember those Facebook messages you received years ago? Check back far enough in your inbox and you’ll probably find they’re still there. Unless, that is, they were from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook deleted messages Zuckerberg sent on the platform from the inboxes of people who received them, according to TechCrunch. The news site said it has seen the receipts in …

Snapchat is all set to introduce group video calling and story mentions, a feature it tested last month, parent company Snap announced Tuesday. Up to 16 people can now take part in group video chats on the app, with up to 32 people joining in voice calls. To mention them in a Snapchat story, just type out their username starting …

Apple introduced a new way for teachers to hand out assignments and monitor student progress through an app called Schoolwork at its education event in Chicago on Tuesday. The Schoolwork app stores student data in the cloud, but the company really wants you to know that keeping this data safe from prying eyes is its No. 1 priority. See also …

The Apple Store website went down on Tuesday ahead of the company’s press conference in Chicago. It’s common for the company to pull its web store offline ahead of events, only to put it back online during or shortly after it announces new products. So, what can we expect to see when the store goes back online? It could be …

Mark Zuckerberg turned down an opportunity to come to London to give evidence in Parliament about Facebook’s part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Zuckerberg said last week he would be happy to testify in front of Congress in the US. But the Facebook CEO will not be doing the same in the UK, according to a letter the company sent …

When it comes to 5G, the possibilities are the stuff science fiction dreams are made of. We picture our lives inside our seamlessly connected smart homes, with autonomous cars to take us to work and the speediest, most reliable internet connectivity ensuring that our streaming video never buffers. After all, 5G has been hailed as the advent of the fourth …

The EU unveiled a plan on Wednesday designed to get big US tech companies, including Google, Amazon and Facebook, to pay more tax in Europe. Under current rules, digital companies only pay tax in countries where they have a physical presence, even if they’re providing services in those countries and making money there. The European Commission wants to change this …

The data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users could’ve been harvested by private companies under the social network’s previous rules, an ex-employee said Tuesday. Sandy Parakilas, who was Facebook’s platform operations manager between 2011 and 2012, told the Guardian that he warned senior executives at the social network there was risk of a major data breach, but was ignored. Parakilas, …