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Dubbed as “Project Storm,” Parikh explained the effort to the audience of invited engineers at the third annual @Scale conference held in San Jose this week. @Scale brings together engineers who build or preserve systems designed for huge numbers of users, including companies like Google, Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, Dropbox, and others. The wake-up call for Facebook as to how natural disaster could cause a shut-down disaster was the mammoth 2012 hurricane, Super Storm Sandy that pushed its way up the East Coast from the Caribbean and made landfall near New York City, causing havoc on the East Coast internet infrastructure....

State treasurers from Illinois, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who oversees money including pension funds co-filed the proposal. They joined a proposal originally filed by the investor, Trillium Asset Management in June that called for Zuckerberg to resign as chairman. Also Read- Hackers accessed 29 million user accounts, says Facebook The proposal is largely symbolic since Zuckerberg holds absolute control of the board. The removal demand comes at a time when recent security lapses at the social networking giant have raised questions over the company’s leadership....

Social networking giant Facebook has found itself in troubled waters after it allowed users to mark themselves as “safe” during the Paris attacks while ignoring other conflicts happening in other parts of the world. Following the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris that claimed the lives of up to 129 people, Facebook immediately enabled its Safety Check feature for the people who were in and around Paris. The feature was used by more than 4 million people to mark themselves as “Safe” on Facebook in the first 24 hours....

The purpose of the new market research app is to collect information directly from the people who use its services and use it to improve products like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Portal and Oculus, and to benefit the broader community. “Today, we’re introducing Facebook Viewpoints, a new market research app that rewards people for participating in surveys, tasks, and research. We believe the best way to make products better is to get insights directly from people who use them....

The video uploaded in real-time by T.J. Williams on Tuesday evening shows him and two other men in a car smoking what appears to be marijuana, while listening and rapping along to hip hop music. About five minutes and 40 seconds into the video, gun shots were fired, instantly throwing Williams back and the phone to the floor of the car, the report said. However, the recording continues for more than an hour, capturing the sounds of witnesses followed by the first responders attempting to save the men....

The tagline has been changed from “It’s free and always will be” to “It’s quick and easy.” According to Business Insider, who traced the switch using internet archive Wayback Machine, said that the change has happened sometime between August 6 and 7. Due to its free-to-use, advertising-funded business model, Facebook does not charge its users for joining the service. However, the data collected from the users are sold to companies to help direct marketing and products to certain audiences....

— BEN SLATER ? (@iambenslater) April 29, 2018 — Carter (@cwsbbb) April 29, 2018 Now, according to a new report from TheNextWeb, Facebook wants users to use the “downvote” to flag ‘bad comments’, which the social media giant defines as having “bad intentions or is disrespectful.” Apparently, Facebook is trying really hard not to make this new button come out as a dislike button, reports TNW. Back in February, a Facebook spokesperson had stressed that “We are not testing a dislike button....

“At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. That’s the principle of data portability, which gives people control and choice while also encouraging innovation. Today, we’re releasing a tool that will enable Facebook users to transfer their Facebook photos and videos directly to other services, starting with Google Photos,” Steve Satterfield, Director of Privacy and Public Policy at Facebook announced in a blog post....

Ime Archibong, Facebook’s Vice President of Product Partnerships, in a company post on Monday said: “We have large teams of internal and external experts working hard to investigate these apps as quickly as possible. To date thousands of apps have been investigated and around 200 have been suspended – pending a thorough investigation into whether they did in fact misuse any data. Where we find evidence that these or other apps did misuse data, we will ban them and notify people via this website....

Facebook is looking to make it easy for anyone to create profile frames that can be used by support teams, political causes, businesses and special events. However, Facebook says that all custom frames must stick to its policies in order to go live. According to a company spokesperson, Facebook employees will review each submitted frame to make sure it’s not offensive or illegal. If you are interested in creating a Facebook frame for anyone to use, just head here and download Facebook’s templates to get started....

Facebook is trying to dispel some of the stigma and pop-culture myths that surround AI with a series of six instructional videos that try to explain this complicated field of computer science. The timing of the AI campaign comes after critics have slammed Facebook for its role in distributing false information during the 2016 presidential campaign. “I think the more open we can be about it and the more we can demystify and explain how it actually works, the more quickly we can address concerns,” said Candela....

Reuters reported that in a five-page, confidential “flash” warning sent to security staff of some of the companies, FBI provided some of the technical details of the malware. The FBI did not name Sony as the victim of this malware however those experts who are following the Sony breach said it was clearly linked to Sony hack attack. Reuters reported the advisory says the malware overrides all data on hard drives of computers, including the master boot record, which prevents them from booting up....

We all can’t deny the fact that Piracy is the biggest curse for the Entertainment media industry. These days there are tons of websites available on the internet that let you download 100% free movies and even allow you to watch movies online, and Filmywap was just one of them. “Filmywap- Free Bollywood Movie Download” Is Banned This website provided free Bollywood movies download and was fairly popular in India and manages to attract millions of users a month....

For those unaware, HIPB is a popular data breach notification website that allows people to check if their login credentials such as email ID or passwords have been leaked by hackers. Similar to “this site may be hacked” warning that Google search shows for a compromised website, the new feature dubbed ‘Breach Alerts’ for Firefox will pop up notifications if a user’s credentials have been involved in a recent data breach....

This has revolutionised trading as for the first time in ages, retail traders have a wealth of information at the tip of their hands. And what’s more, some of the more advanced trading platforms out there are now powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence which means that they can analyse huge chunks of historical and correlated data and come out with predictions that are eerily similar to present market trends....

Once again, a leak of a very detailed concept art from the show that depicts a moment from a major scene in the season finale has appeared on Reddit. This week two images emerged, of which one showed several characters from the HBO’s fantasy TV show standing near the ruins of the Dragonpit, including Tyrion Lannister, Bronn, a Lannister guard, and likely Jon Snow with his back turned. The second photo is a close-up of the picture’s corner, where it reads “Game of Thrones VII....

The mastermind of this invention is Radislav Potyrailo, who is the main scientist handling this project at GE. In comparison to the traditional detectors used at the airports, seaports or the rail centres this detector is unique and one of its kind. Generally a metal detector which is operated manually, the one you may have seen at most of the ports. Some permanent detectors are also used however these are very huge in their size....

GoDaddy is the world’s largest domain name registrar that manages 77 million domains and provides services to roughly 19 million customers around the world. The data breach confirmation notice was filed with the State of California Department of Justice and sent out to customers on May 4 via an email, which was signed by Demetrius Comes, CISO & VP of Engineering at GoDaddy. According to Comes, an unauthorised individual had gained access to login information that its customers used to connect to SSH on their hosting accounts....

CodePlex was originally launched in 2006, as there were very few open source project hosting sites for developers to share software, collaborate on code and host open source projects before GitHub came into prominence a few years later. Undoubtedly, over the years, GitHub has become the de facto place for open source sharing and most open source projects have migrated there. Even Microsoft is currently using GitHub and many of its key open source projects are now on GitHub (Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, ....

Now, the search giant has officially admitted in a letter to US lawmakers that it allows third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts, even though Google itself has stopped the practice for the purpose of ad targeting last year. “Developers may share data with third parties so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using the data,” wrote Susan Molinari, Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Americas at Google in the letter sent to the US Senators in July, which was made public on Tuesday....