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Google announced that it will stop indexing and ranking Flash content later this year.

Twitter said phone numbers and email addresses used to secure accounts on its platform were "unintentionally used for advertising purposes."

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.

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.

Facebook made a virtual assistant that can follow "Minecraft" player's instructions to help them with a variety of tasks.

Microsoft announced that it's bringing dark mode to Microsoft 365's web and mobile apps.

Twitter said that user privacy settings "may not have worked as intended" since 2018.

Microsoft reportedly has contractors help train AI using snippets of audio recorded via the Translate feature in Skype, as well as the Cortana voice assistant.

After narrowly approving a $5 billion settlement for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the FTC is now conducting an antitrust investigation into Facebook.