Google and a group of other tech giants, including Facebook and Twitter, have signed a code of conduct on how they will tackle the spread of fake news, the European Commission said on Wednesday. With major European Parliament elections approaching in 2019, the EU is keen to minimize the influence of fake news on social …
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Facebook Stories, a timeline of photos that disappears after 24 hours, has hit a milestone of 300 million people using it every day via its namesake social network and messaging service Facebook Messenger, the company said Wednesday. At a presentation in New York on the sidelines of Advertising Week, Facebook also said that it’s opening up advertising in Facebook Stories to all …
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The ad-blocking Brave web browser startup has landed two blows on Google: It dumped the search engine for rival Qwant in France and Germany, and it lodged a formal complaint in Europe against Google’s ad privacy practices. Brave picked Qwant, which bills itself as “the search engine that respects your privacy,” as part of its effort to capitalize on privacy …
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If you like Brave but also like extensions to fine-tune your web surfing, good news: A new version of the ad-blocking browser arrived Thursday that makes it as customizable as Google’s rival Chrome. Brave Chief Technology Officer Brian Bondy announced the new version, called Brave Core, on Reddit. There’s only an early version geared for developers for now, though, and …
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Firefox, a browser billing itself as the choice for anyone valuing privacy on the web, is following rivals that led the way with a technology called tracking protection. With the 2017 release of Firefox 57 — the first “Quantum” version geared to reinvigorate Firefox’s competitiveness with Google’s Chrome — Mozilla made it possible to block website software that tracks you …
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Millions of us have discovered browser extensions like AdBlock Plus and uBlock Origin can declutter web pages. Now, judging by new data released by Mozilla, it seems we’re also discovering we can block website software that tracks us on the internet, too. With the November release of Firefox 57, the first Firefox Quantum version, Mozilla added an option to let …
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Finally, all your pithy tweets and insightful Reddit posts could pay off. Brave, the ad-blocking browser startup trying to rewrite the rules of online advertising, sends payments today to website publishers, YouTube stars and Twitch videogame streamers. Now it plans to extend that system to people who post on Twitter and Reddit. Brave plans to add Reddit and Twitter support for …
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Has the rise of fake news plunged democracy into crisis? Some UK politicians believe it has. Britain should have more powers to regulate and scrutinize the world’s largest tech companies, says a report published Sunday by Parliament’s committee investigating fake news. The report paints a picture in which people’s data is being manipulated and voters are being targeted without their …
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It’s a new world for AT&T in the post-Time Warner merger era. On Tuesday, the company reported a mixed bag of results for the second quarter. It missed Wall Street expectations on revenue but beat the Street’s predictions when it came to earnings per share, as well as number of wireless subscribers. AT&T reported earnings of 91 cents per share, …
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has announced a raft of new legislation that aims to provide additional clarity and protection for consumers looking to switch to the NBN. A draft of the new rules was first announced by ACMA in April as a response to 12 months of research that demonstrated over one in 10 residential households were left …
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