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Microsoft today announced its Fluid Framework, a platform for collaborating and sharing that will be built into Microsoft 365.

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.

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.

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.

UpGuard revealed that information about 540 million Facebook users gathered by Cultura Colectiva was publicly accessible via an unprotected Amazon S3 bucket.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing marketers to target ads.

Facebook confirmed that the passwords of hundreds of millions of users were stored in plain text, but denied that its employees improperly accessed them.

Myspace lost "any photos, videos, and audio files" its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 as the result of a failed server migration project.

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.

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.