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
Company selling social media 'likes' and 'followers' settles with US authoritiesCompany, Devumi, already filed for bankruptcy in mid-2018.January 31, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Study of over 11,000 online stores finds 'dark patterns' on 1,254 sitesUser interface dark patterns are becoming common on online stores.November 11, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
Facebook files lawsuit against two Android app developers for click fraudFacebook sues LionMobi and JediMobi, two Android app developers.August 6, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Tech Industry
IBM, Microsoft staff rally to remove racially insensitive language from productsEfforts follow similar actions taken by Twitter, GitHub, the Linux kernel, MySQL, and OpenBSD teams.August 22, 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