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Greater Manchester Police Website Suffers DoS Attack

Police website knocked offline for several hours following denial-of-service attack

10 years ago

Data Centre Laws Postponed In Russia For Facebook, Google

Roskomnadzor comms regulator delays data sovereignty enforcement for big US techies until January amidst data centre build refusals

10 years ago

One Billion People Access Facebook In A Single Day

Facebook rebuffs concerns about fatigue as social network reaches one billion milestone

10 years ago

Facebook M Is Your New Social Media Virtual Assistant

Siri-esque service will live inside Facebook Messenger and help answer life's tricky questions

10 years ago

Facebook ‘Loophole’ Allows Personal Data Harvesting

Facebook dismissed claims that the technique could be used to build massive scam databases

10 years ago

Facebook Gets Green Light For Irish Data Centre

Local Councillor says approval is the "best news" he's had in the county in his 30 years of service

10 years ago

Facebook Solar-Powered Drone Is The Size Of A Boeing 737

Aquila drone project will see Internet laser-beamed to unconnected parts of the world from 90,000ft in the sky

10 years ago

Facebook Shifts Focus With Internet.org

Facebook is now presenting Internet.org it as a way of getting more users onto paid Internet services

10 years ago

Facebook Developing Digital Assistant

‘Moneypenny’ should make sure your Messenger usage never gets shaken or stirred

10 years ago

Facebook Reveals Wind-Powered Texas Data Centre

Fort Worth Facebook data centre will be 100 percent renewable energy powered at expand firm's fleet of data centres to…

10 years ago

Zuckerberg: Machines Will Not Win, But Expect Telepathic Comms

Professor Stephen Hawking and Arnold Schwarzenegger drop in for townhall Q&A with Zuckerberg

10 years ago

Facebook Recruits Yahoo’s Alex Stamos As New Security Chief

Stamos replaces Joe Sullivan, who left to join Uber earlier this year

10 years ago

Facebook Study Into SSDs Finds ‘Several Distinct Failure Periods’

But paper in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University claims that read disturbance errors do not increase failure rates

10 years ago

Facebook Reportedly Abandons Internet.org Satellites

Is space the final frontier for Facebook? Reports suggest it has abandoned satellite plans for Internet.org

10 years ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook Slams Tech Rivals Over Privacy

Tim Cook criticised rivals over privacy and warns about government attempts to weaken encryption

10 years ago

Sony Eyes Data Centre Boost With Cold Storage Acquisition

Sony Corporation has acquired OAI, an optical storage startup, to technological demands from the growing cold archive market

10 years ago

Amazon Starts European Corporate Tax Payments

Amazon begins paying corporate tax in a number of European countries, but will Google and Apple follow suit?

10 years ago

Facebook’s Internet.org Criticised In Open Letter

Open letter accuses Mark Zuckerberg of creating a walled garden with the Internet.org initative

10 years ago

Belgian Privacy Watchdog Hits Back After Facebook Criticism

Tit for tat argument continues as Belgian Privacy Watchdog sharply criticises Facebook and its privacy controls

10 years ago

Tax Practices Of Tech Giants Attacked By OECD Official

The man in charge of reforming global tax laws warns tech giants to stop “extremely aggressive” tax planning

10 years ago

Facebook Instant Articles Promises Better Mobile Experience

New Facebook tool for publishers quickly creates interactive news articles on social network

10 years ago

Facebook Launches Major Anti-Malvertising Campaign

Social network teams up with RiskIQ to tackle pesky malware

10 years ago

Facebook Adds Video Calling To Messenger

Looks to take on the likes of Skype with new addition

10 years ago

Facebook Profit Slides As R&D Costs Bite

Social networking giant posts positive results, but profits dip and revenue growth slows

10 years ago

Facebook Hello Wants To Make Phone Calls More Social

Facebook Hello app will let users see extra information on their contacts, but what does it mean for Whatsapp?

10 years ago

Facebook To Bring Internet.org Service To Europe

Richard Branson joins in with impromptu and wide-ranging Q&A with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

10 years ago

Facebook Hits Back At Belgian Privacy Report

Embattled Facebook admits it tracks non-users, but dismisses report findings from Belgian privacy watchdog

10 years ago

Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Starts In Austria

A closely-watched data privacy lawsuit against Facebook has been filed in an Austrian court today

10 years ago

Facebook Messenger Now Lets Companies Contact Customers Directly

Messenger for Businesses unveiled at F8 conference in San Francisco

10 years ago

Facebook Lays Out Its Plans For A Connected World

Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and drones all form part of future view

10 years ago