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Tech Digest daily round up: Over 500m Facebook accounts hacked
The personal details of more than 500 million Facebook users, including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates and email addresses, have reportedly been posted on a website for hackers. According to Business Insider, which first reported the availability of the data, information of some 533 million people from 106 countries was online on Saturday.…
Tech Digest daily round up: First ever tweet up for sale
“just setting up my twttr” - the first ever tweet on the platform is up for sale after Twitter boss Jack Dorsey listed his famous post as a unique digital signature on a website for selling tweets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The post, sent from Dorsey’s account in March of 2006, received offers on Friday…
Tech Digest daily round up: 8 year old becomes paid Fortnite player
The BBC writes about the youngest ever paid Fortnite player. Aged just 8, Joseph Deen signed with the Californian esports team, Team 33, in December last year. They invited him to their headquarters to give him a $33,000 (£23,600) signing-on bonus, and high-speed computer system. "I felt amazing when I got offered the contract," Joseph…
Tech Digest daily round up: TikTok settles facial recognition lawsuit
TikTok has agreed to pay $92m (£66m) to settle a lawsuit accusing it of misusing artificial intelligence to track and store users' data, writes the BBC. A group challenge alleged it breached laws by using software to recognise facial features in user videos and algorithms to identify age, gender and ethnicity. It also alleged that…
Twitter users ‘3 times more likely’ to follow those with same political views
Twitter users are three times more likely to follow back the accounts of strangers if they share the same political views, according to a new study that sheds light on the phenomenon of ‘echo chambers’ on social media. The peer-reviewed study saw researchers, including those from the University of Exeter Business School, conduct a field…
Today’s Tech Digest: Twitter’s record revenues, Instagram’s stricter penalties
Twitter has posted record revenues for the last quarter of 2020, capping off what chief executive Jack Dorsey said was "an extraordinary year" for the platform. The social messaging platform said revenue grew 28% to $1.29bn (£930m) compared to the last quarter of 2019. See full story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55993097 Instagram is to impose stricter penalties,…
Twitter to warn users of liking misleading tweets
Twitter is to warn users if they are about to like a misleading tweet, in its latest attempt to stem the spread of fake news and disinformation. The social network has certainly had its work cut out flagging the lies posted by Donald Trump and others around the US election as well as false claims…
Social media analysis reveals Britain’s broadband stress levels
Brits are not shy of taking to social media to vent their frustrations, and it would appear that angry broadband customers are no exception. Examining the 305,568 tweets aimed at the UK's major broadband providers, comparison site Broadband Genie used TensiStrength tool to assign a stress score from 1 (not stressed) to 5 (very high stress).…
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates targeted in Twitter hack
Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates were among many prominent US figures targeted in a Twitter hack. Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West were also targeted in the Bitcoin scam with donations requested from their accounts. "Everyone is asking me to give back," a tweet from Mr Gates' account said. "You send…
Twitter accounts of deceased will not be removed
Twitter has said accounts belonging to the deceased will not be removed as part of its “clean-up” of inactive profiles until it figures out a way to memorialise these accounts. The social network has started warning users who have been inactive on its platform for more than six months that their account risks being deleted…
