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Twitter lost 9 million users after the crackdown against bots

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Twitter has announced that it has experienced a drop of nine million monthly users over the third quarter of 2018. The social network was anticipating…

Facebook rolls out redesigned Messenger app with more focus on simplicity

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

On Tuesday, the social media giant Facebook unveiled a new version of Messenger that the company said is easier for users to browse. Facebook announced…

Facebook is reportedly acquiring a big cybersecurity firm to avoid further hacks

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook is reportedly buying a ‘major’ cybersecurity firm to improve on its security as issues and controversies keep the company in woe. Reports are in…

Twitter will soon indicate when a reported tweet was taken down

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Twitter is bringing some much-needed clarity to its reporting process. In an update outlined this morning on the company’s blog, the social network will now…

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Spammers behind massive Facebook hack, not political agents

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The latest hack of Facebook that compromised 30 million accounts was apparently pulled by spammers than political agents. In late September, the security team of…

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Beware as scammers find new ways to hack WhatsApp accounts in Pakistan

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

It hasn’t been long since the news of WhatsApp accounts being hacked in Karachi went public last month. The state-of-affair where showed active happenings of…

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Instagram is testing if it could share your precise location with Facebook

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The new application versions of Instagram have been found sharing your precise location with its parent company, Facebook. According to new reports, the popular photo-sharing…

Facebook admits using your two-factor-authentication phone number for ad targeting

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook has admitted using the phone number provided by the user (for two-factor-authentication) to target them with ads. The original purpose of the two-factor-authentication (2FA)…

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Facebook has started to roll out the new UI for Messenger

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook, earlier in May announced a redesign of their uber-popular messenger app. For those who use the Facebook messenger application, it is no secret that…

Information Ministry’s fake news buster Twitter account gets fabricated in a day

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Ministry of Information and Broadcast launched yesterday, a Twitter account FakeNewsBusterMoIB to curb the spread of misinformation and fake news through social media. Pakistan…

Microsoft is ending support for Skype Classic

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Microsoft is ending support for the popular Skype Classic (7.0) on November 1st. Previously, the discontinuation of the Skype 7.0 version was scheduled for September,…

Did Facebook block users from posting about the massive hack?

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Following the security breach that compromised 50 million Facebook accounts, some users reported that they are unable to share posts about the hack. Currently, users…

Everything you need to know about the hack that shook Facebook last week

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Just over the past weekend, we heard about one of the biggest hacks that happened in the history of Facebook. Here’s everything you need to…

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