MySpace lost 13 years worth of user data after botched server migrationMost photos, songs, and videos uploaded to the site between 2003 and 2015 are lost for good, site said.March 18, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Facebook sues websites that sold Instagram likes and scraped Facebook user dataFacebook files lawsuits against MGP25 Cyberint Services in Spain and against Massroot8 in the US.June 18, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videosMain target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services.October 23, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Yahoo Groups to shut down for good on December 15, 2020Nineteen-year-old discussion board to shut down for good after Verizon effectively killed the service last year.October 12, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Twitter bans 32k accounts pushing Chinese, Russian, and Turkish propagandaAll three networks targeted local users for the benefit of the ruling political party.June 11, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Facebook fixes bug that crashed major iOS apps like TikTok, Spotify, and TinderSome of the biggest iOS apps in the world went down for more than three hours on Wednesday.May 6, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for yearsFormer and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points.April 15, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Internet's largest social networks issue joint statement on COVID-19 misinformationFacebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube put out joint statement promising to fight COVID-19 fraud and curb misinformation.March 16, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Facebook sues maker of advertising SDK for refusing to participate in auditFacebook also sued the operator of a website selling Instagram followers, likes, and comments.August 27, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
51 tech CEOs send open letter to Congress asking for a federal data privacy lawCEOs who signed: Amazon, AT&T, Dell, IBM, SAP, Salesforce, Visa, Mastercard, and JP Morgan Chase.September 10, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry