US News By Yaron Steinbuch Published March 12, 2024, 1:49 p.m. ET A California murder suspect accused of posting a sick Facebook video of his dying victim’s final moments has since claimed his confession was generated by artificial intelligence. Mark Stephen Mechikoff, 39, of Pacifica, is charged with fatally stabbing Claribel Estrella inside her San …
Users have reported problems with Facebook. (Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire) Facebook users have reported that the social media site is currently down and not working. People have reported being automatically logged out of their accounts on Facebook on internet browsers and phone apps. The issue seems to also have hit the Facebook Messenger app. READ …
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Republicans and Democrats are claiming the outage is helping the other side Some felt Meta’s crash on the same day as Super Tuesday was ‘no coincidence’ Conspiracy theorists have run wild after Facebook and Instagram both crashed on the same day as the Super Tuesday primary elections. Both Republicans and Democrats baselessly theorized that the …
Ed Zitron will be speaking at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference on May 16-17 in Las Vegas. Click here to register. As a public relations consultant for tech companies, Ed Zitron has seen some things. He knows where the bodies are buried, and he’s happy to point them out. Zitron argues that the internet is being ruined …
Graphic: Gizmodo It’s day 2 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to crown the greatest app of all time! The mighty Fart App has fallen to Instagram in our first round and today’s challengers are WhatsApp vs Dark Sky. Will Mark Zuckerberg win again? That’s up to you. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to …
In an email sent to users, Meta announced that it will be deleting all Oculus accounts and the data associated with them by the end of the month. Users are instructed to migrate their Oculus account to a Meta one account by March 29, or else they won’t be able to reactivate or retrieve apps, …
A MUM took her laptop to a repair shop after days of struggling to connect to the internet — only to be told the wi-fi button was switched off. Sally Newall-Sanderson, 44, had reset the laptop, deleted programs and called her broadband provider to try to get to the bottom of the problem. 3 Sally …
A team of American and Chinese researchers claims to have found a way to exploit a vulnerability in a widely used biometric authentication method used to secure smartphones. The researchers say their study is the first to use the sound of a user’s swipe to infer their fingerprint and that it “rings the alarm bells” …
New research conducted by InternetNZ reveals that over half (52%) of New Zealand citizens capable of working from home via the internet wish to do so more frequently. This study, which explores perspectives on various internet-related subjects, has been tracking remote working habits since the inception of the pandemic. It highlighted that 61%, or nearly …