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You Can Probably Get A Piece Of The $725 Million Facebook Privacy Settlement

B. Simmons April 22, 2023

Don’t hope for a massive payday. So, you may or may not be aware of the massive class-action lawsuit that Facebook-parent Meta has been dealing with. The suit was based around Facebook sharing user...

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Sheryl Sandberg Allegedly Used Facebook Resources To Aid Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

B. Simmons April 22, 2022

Wait for the kicker, it’s a doozy. Activision has spent much of this year going through the wringer. But it may well have come to a head earlier, were it not for some alleged...

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After Rebranding As Meta, Facebook Has Lost $500 Billion

B. Simmons February 23, 2022

Ha ha ha, oh wow. If you though Facebook rebranding as Meta was an odd turn, you’re not alone. As a matter of fact, it seems to have been a costly decision. Because since...

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US Navy Claims It Was “Hacked” When Age Of Empires Streams Started Showing Up On USS Kidd’s Facebook Profile

B. Simmons October 10, 2021

I guess its free advertising for AoE? Last week saw the Facebook page for the USS Kidd suddenly taken over with streams of Age of Empires. An official spokesperson for the Navy claimed the...

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Every Facebook-Affiliated Service Got Knocked Offline On Monday

B. Simmons October 5, 2021

Here there be dragons. Monday saw everything owned by Mark Zuckerberg knocked offline; this included Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus. From what’s generally been found out, the whole thing happened due to a DNS...

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Facebook Apologizes For AI Labeling Video Of Black Men As “About Primates”

B. Simmons September 5, 2021

Not very Cres, but the schadenfreude is delicious. It seems that Facebook’s AI committed what the company dubs an “unacceptable error”. The company’s AI followed up a video from a British tabloid featuring Black...

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Facebook Tells iOS Users That Tracking Keeps Facebook And Instagram”Free Of Charge”

B. Simmons May 30, 2021

They’d be the ones to actually believe that shit. So, with iOS 14.5, Apple has added a few new features. Notably, the ability to block tracking by third-party sites; specifically it asks for user...

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Oculus Virtual Reality Gaming Showcase On The Way

B. Simmons April 12, 2021

They are VR. Oculus has an event planned to show off their new VR titles later this month. Titled the Oculus Gaming Showcase, it’ll show off what’s to come in the near future for...

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Lawsuits Allege That Facebook Is a Monopoly; Call For It to Divest Itself Of Instagram and WhatsApp

B. Simmons December 9, 2020

Now we’ll never get those Facebook lasers. According to a series of lawsuits filed Wednesday by 48 attorneys general and the FTC, Facebook has become a monopoly. The suits allege that Facebook has used...

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Facebook Unveils Cloud Gaming Service As Part Of Facebook Gaming

B. Simmons October 27, 2020

It’s mostly smaller stuff, so keep those expectations where they belong. Facebook just revealed their cloud gaming service, which is a part of Facebook Gaming. It is free-to-play, and allows you to share and...

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Facebook Isn’t Banning Oculus Users With Multiple Headsets

B. Simmons October 26, 2020

What a mess. A little while back, Facebook made the move to require Facebook logins for the use of Oculus devices. Which, in turn, lead to a situation where it seemed that they were...

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Facebook Account Will Be Required To Use Oculus Devices

J. Luis August 18, 2020

Facebook bought Oculus some time ago and people were worried that things would change for the VR device. For a long time, things were business as normal but now Facebook is really pushing its...