Facebook has a fake news problem. It’s something the company has made no secret of and — even though it was reluctant to acknowledge it at first — is now working to tackle. One of the ways it’s doing this is by hiring “news publisher specialists” to advise on news content that appears on the …
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For nearly a decade, BlackBerry smartphones have emerged from a potent brew of unrealistic ambitions and seemingly predetermined failure — do you remember the BlackBerry Storm? Throughout the decline, BlackBerry has touted privacy, security and a physical keyboard as the marquee features of its smartphones. Fast-forward to today, and what does the new BlackBerry Mobile talk about when promoting its …
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Facebook has admitted to an incredibly embarrassing bug — one that encouraged 14 million users to share posts publicly when they intended them to be private. According to Facebook, only four days worth of posts could have been accidentally shared — ones published between May 18 and May 22, and the company has automatically changed them back to private, too. …
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Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix told British politicians on Wednesday that he’d been the victim of entrapment and that the media had misrepresented the work of his company. A Channel 4 documentary that aired in March showed Nix offering to entrap politicians in compromising positions in order to influence the outcome of elections. He even suggested he had previously …
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The former chief executive of Cambridge Analytica Alexander Nix was accused on Wednesday of taking $8 million from the company ahead of its collapse. Investors backing a rebrand of the data consultancy firm are currently in a stand-off with Nix while trying to persuade him to return the money, according to the Financial Times. Nix reportedly took the money shortly …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Everyone’s making avatars now: Nintendo started it with its Mii in 2006, on the wildly popular Wii console. Microsoft quickly “borrowed” that idea for Xbox Avatars. Bitmoji — first an independent company, later purchased by Snap — popularized the personalized emojis on mobile …
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Oculus says it’ll preview the next five years of Virtual Reality at Oculus Connect 5, on Sept. 26-27 in San Jose, California. The Facebook-owned brand hosts its Oculus Connect conference every year, where it shows off its new developments in the world of VR. Curious what Facebook has in mind for the next stage of VR? Oculus Connect is probably …
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WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton reportedly left $1.3 billion behind by leaving Facebook. According to The Wall Street Journal, both men chose to depart after a number of long-standing disputes. The major divide was over monetizing the messaging app, which has 1.5 billion users. Koum and Acton had been resistant to adopting Facebook’s widely lucrative targeted advertising model, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple may be one of the biggest tech companies in the world, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t too big to throw some grade-A shade. Just like last week’s celebrity saga of Drake vs. Pusha T and Kanye West, but less interesting and …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. When Apple announced a new Safari privacy feature last year called intelligent tracking protection, advertisers accustomed to tracking your behavior online squealed. Get ready for some more squealing. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company showed some new restrictions it’s imposing on online …
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