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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Norwegian gov't consumer watchdog calls out ‘enshittification’ of video games, connected devices, and others — claims hardware deliberately degraded after purchase  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ “Companies can degrade the functionality of your car or effectively destroy your connected washing machine with a software update,” says the report. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Luke James ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/A9eY4ng3SUKbSjGcVLEWVF-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved — despite some parts being 'optimized for nastiness' ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:18:29 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bruno Ferreira ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iqwLTdfJnCAVtwNjtYesCB-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Russian media finally admits Putin is under fire from angry citizens, but it's for the recent Roblox ban — Kremlin says kids have written 63,000 complaint letters, half said they wanted to leave Russia due to the ban ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ There's been a Russian youth uprising, with tens of thousands of kids writing to say they want to emigrate because Roblox has been blocked. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mark Tyson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/oveDzmEUzMszK92YjWNqed-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Starbucks Korea pleads with customers to stop bringing desktop PCs into its cafés — issues a countrywide ban on printers, power strips, and desk partitions ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Starbucks Korea has issued a ban on a series of office items in its stores. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mark Tyson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/q7RCajQBMwP8PzRAQ27um8-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Heads roll at MSI China after games deletion joke backlash – Asus enjoys trolling opportunity ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ MSI Gaming’s social media team in China recently posted a joke about a neglected girl deleting her boyfriend’s games, but the backlash was so strong that it replaced the team and had to make multiple apologies. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mark Tyson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FreJSJMP6YZdEVq2i6LAmG-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How to Move From Twitter to Mastodon ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Learn how to set up your own Mastodon account and crosspost your messages across Twitter and Mastodon using free tools. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:41:31 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:48:03 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Les Pounder ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3M6eXMqaDDM5vZLnEJjpWY-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How to Stream Vertical on Facebook Gaming ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Go into portrait mode to make your content more attractive to people who are viewing it on their phones. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:15:16 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:51:41 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Junae Benne ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yzoGEAnCHfaYpBQ9mC7bfH-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Sets Sights on Ray Ban-Branded Smart Glasses ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook announced Project Aria, plans to build its own AR smart glasses. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 21:02:56 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:22:30 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ash Hill ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/q9UXKUNQqj8Grb5pKPgnYN-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook's AR Smart Glasses Are Looking for a Surround Sound Experience  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The research team at Facebook Reality Labs announced new audio developments to help with its AR smart glasses development. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2020 22:18:46 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:03:34 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ash Hill ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sQAXMH4cYiMfKwfEzRicBJ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Coronavirus News: Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Due to Outbreak Fears ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook canceled its annual developer conference, F8, due to the global Coronavirus outbreak. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:29 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Nathaniel Mott ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bxxNz4rPbbTNTamVZoev3G-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Attackers Could Have Made Private TikTok Videos Public ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Check Point researchers uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in the popular TikTok application that would have allowed attackers to take over users' accounts, delete videos and even make private videos public. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 20:01:38 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Lucian Armasu ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Zoms9hSbJF4kqYXbevwnTP-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Gives 'Privacy Checkup' its First Major Update Since 2014 ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook gave its Privacy Checkup tool its first major update since 2014. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:30:47 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:53:07 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Nathaniel Mott ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/N2pMYTLmF462ZSEpWSUMEZ-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Twitter Used Contact Info Provided for Two-Factor Authentication for Targeted Ads ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Twitter said phone numbers and email addresses used to secure accounts on its platform were "unintentionally used for advertising purposes." ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:20:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:39:33 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Nathaniel Mott ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6xrD4JGr3gdVwY7V9Ru65m-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Buys CTRL-labs Brain Interface Startup ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook agreed to buy CTRL-labs, a New York startup working on mind reading technology that allows people to control computer interfaces with their thoughts. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:23 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Lucian Armasu ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8LmRBDDdL8YNVxjyuBDn8U-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Razer’s CEO Talks Project Athena, AMD, Making a Toaster and Trolling Facebook ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ In a wide-ranging interview, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan discussed Razer’s relationship with Intel, interest in AMD, the effects of tariffs on the company’s goods, moving into gaming drinks and crossing over with other brands on PC hardware. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Andrew E. Freedman ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9T49sGhNUAjxauiGWNB89P-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ New Facebook User Data Leak Is Five Times Larger Than Cambridge Analytica Leak ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Researcher finds an unprotected server with leaked Facebook user data affecting more than five times as many people as the Cambridge Analytica data leak did. ]]>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook's Making AI Play Minecraft ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook made a virtual assistant that can follow "Minecraft" player's instructions to help them with a variety of tasks. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:09:31 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Twitter Admits to Privacy Settings Blunders ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Twitter said that user privacy settings "may not have worked as intended" since 2018. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:26:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:01:52 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Report: FTC Investigating Facebook's Many Acquisitions ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ After narrowly approving a $5 billion settlement for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the FTC is now conducting an antitrust investigation into Facebook. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:50:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:28:07 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ US DOJ Launches Antitrust Review of Amazon, Facebook, Other Tech Giants ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The U.S. DOJ announced that it's reviewing the big tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple, over antitrust issues. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:16:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:20:48 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Lucian Armasu ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/D4MVgZgJG9ZL4QVmhURqcA-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook to Pay $5 Billion for Cambridge Analytica Scandal ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly approved a $5 billion settlement with Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that erupted in 2018. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:50:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:47 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Official Intel Reddit Thread Gives Users a New Place to Complain ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Intel announced that it's expanding its official customer support to another social platform: Reddit. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:44:01 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:50:00 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ U.S. Government Takes Aim At Facebook's Libra Digital Currency ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Members of the U.S. House and government officials, including President Trump, have recently launched a campaign against Facebook's Libra digital currency, but also other cryptocurrencies that could become a national security risk. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:58:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:41:30 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Lucian Armasu ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Q3ZDXzi62Di2HZXUTrS9AZ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Quietly Reveals That Millions of Instagram Passwords Were Exposed ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook quietly updated a March blog post to say that the passwords of millions of Instagram users were stored in a readable format on its servers. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:34:01 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:07:49 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Imported 1.5 Million Users' Email Contacts Without Permission ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook admitted to uploading the email address books of 1.5 million users, which may have included the email contacts of hundreds of millions of people. ]]>
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                                                                                                                            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 14:22:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:27 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Russian Fines Facebook $50 for Not Storing Citizen Data on Russian Servers ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A court in Moscow issued a $50 fine to Facebook for violating a data privacy law that requires information about Russian users to be kept on servers in Russia. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:40:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:01:52 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ US Regulator Accuses Facebook of 'Causing Housing Discrimination' ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing marketers to target ads. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:14:01 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:51:41 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Employees Had Access to Up to 600 Million Passwords ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook confirmed that the passwords of hundreds of millions of users were stored in plain text, but denied that its employees improperly accessed them. ]]>
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                                                                                                                            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:23 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Myspace Lost 13 Years Worth of Data and Basically Nobody Cared ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Myspace lost "any photos, videos, and audio files" its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 as the result of a failed server migration project. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:06:00 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Uses Two-Factor Authentication Phone Numbers to Help Users Find You ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Despite saying phone numbers used for 2FA wouldn't be used for anything else, Facebook actually uses those numbers to help people find their friends' accounts. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:32:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:53:04 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Is Working On Its Own Semiconductor Design - Report ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook's chief AI researcher told Bloomberg the company is working on a semiconductor design made specifically to handle the mass amounts of data used by AI. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:22:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:51 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Germany Prohibits Merging Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp User Data ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ German's Federal Cartel Office said Facebook is a monopoly with over 95 percent of the social media market in Germany. ]]>
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                                                                                                                            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:22:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:07:14 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Gaming Makes Play for Streamers With Streamlabs Integration ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook Gaming has partnered up with Streamlabs to make it easier for people to stream on the platform. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:58:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:51:50 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Responds to Report Saying It Hid Data Partnerships From Users ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/facebook-secret-data-partnerships-report,38268.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ An NYT investigation revealed that Facebook partnered with more than 150 companies from 2010-2017 to offer them special data access without informing users. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:54:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:53:13 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Juggling £500,000 Fine for Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Class-Action Suit ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The UK Information Commissioner's Office has officially fined Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica controversy, while the social media platform also deals with a class-action lawsuit. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:54 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Thinks Spammers Launched Hack of 30 Million Users - Report ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook reportedly believes the attack that compromised 30 million of its users' accounts was conducted by spammers, not spies. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:54:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:53:04 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ FBI Doesn't Want You to Know Who Hacked Facebook ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook said the attack it originally believed to have affected 50 million people actually compromised 30 million--but it's still investigating. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:48:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:29 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Google+ Shuts Down After Vulnerability Secret Exposed ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Google is shutting down its social media platform, Google+, while announcing that a vulnerability gave hundreds of apps access to private information of almost 500,000 users. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:32:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:29:31 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Lucian Armasu ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/toUAxLPSDSQbgL8289vbCj-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Hacked: Up to 50 Million Users Affected ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ An attack on Facebook's network led to a breach affecting nearly 50 million of the social network's users, with 40 million more possibly vulnerable. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:16:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:54 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Andrew E. Freedman ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TvfCoXrPY8GDUjHasqmdeD-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ WhatsApp Co-Founder Talks Selling 'Users' Privacy' to Facebook ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ WhatsApp's co-founder has broken his silence to offer a first-hand account of the company's repeated clashes with Facebook over advertising and user privacy. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:40:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:01:57 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Uses 2FA Contact Info for Targeted Ads ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Researchers discovered that Facebook lets advertise target people based on the phone numbers they use for 2FA and contact information shared by other users. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:58:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:34 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Poll: Americans Have Become More Cautious About Facebook ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ New poll from Pew shows Facebook users are changing their privacy settings and deleting the mobile app. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:58:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:28:13 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook, Google Want to Write the Federal Privacy Law ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Tech firms whose primary source of income comes from advertising are reportedly lobbying to write the rules in the upcoming U.S. federal privacy bill. ]]>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Google Joins Facebook, Twitter In Deleting Iran-Linked Accounts ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Google joined Facebook and Twitter in removing accounts linked to an Iranian "influence operation" from YouTube, Blogger and Google+. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:28:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:27:40 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook and FireEye Detect More Foreign Interference with US Midterms ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Iran allegedly attempted to influence people in the UK, Latin America, and the Middle East as well as the U.S. via "inauthentic" Facebook and Instagram posts. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:28:11 +0000</updated>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ US Feds Want to Wiretap Facebook Messenger Voice Calls ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The U.S. government reportedly wants to compel Facebook to decrypt end-to-end encrypted voice communications conducted between some of its Messenger users. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:24:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:38 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Lucian Armasu ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QKNCV93XhfvUqSBude4P9h-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Wants Access to Your Banking Data ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook has reportedly asked U.S. banks to share customer banking data. But the Cambridge Analytica scandal has seemingly left banks unwilling. ]]>
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                                                                                                                            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:08:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:55:10 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Lucian Armasu ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                </item>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Not Again: Facebook Detects Political Interference Ahead of US Midterms ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook has identified coordinated attempts have been operating on its social media platform in an attempt to influence the United States' midterm elections this November. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:38:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:28:16 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Andrew E. Freedman ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yv87nuHDFmUVaVtPeFzA6H-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Slapped With £500,000 Fine for Cambridge Analytica Scandal ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ That fine doesn't seem like much to a company like Facebook, but it's clear that the UK's Information Commissioner's Office is just getting started. ]]>
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                                                                                                                            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:24:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:52:22 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Nathaniel Mott ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                </item>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Facebook Is Testing AR Ads in News Feed ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Facebook's new mobile ads will utilize augmented reality in an attempt to engage shoppers. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Leah Heilbrunn ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n2tQD9TtyQSahEsU7uq39d-1280-80.png">
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