Cybercriminals Using ChatGPT Popularity to Spread Malware via Facebook Accounts, CloudSEK Says

Cybercriminals Using ChatGPT Popularity to Spread Malware via Facebook Accounts, CloudSEK Says

Cyber criminals are exploiting popularity of ChatGPT to spread malware through hijacked Facebook accounts, cyber intelligence firm CloudSEK said on Monday. CloudSEK in its investigation has found the presence of 13 Facebook pages or accounts including those with Indian content, totalling over 5 lakh followers, that have been compromised and…

Amazon to Lay Off 9,000 Employees in Another Round of Job Cuts; Twitch, E-Commerce, HR Sector to Get Affected

Amazon to Lay Off 9,000 Employees in Another Round of Job Cuts; Twitch, E-Commerce, HR Sector to Get Affected

Amazon.com on Monday said it would axe another 9,000 roles to make its operation lean and manage economic uncertainty, marking a new round of job cuts that pile onto the technology sector’s woes. In a remarkable turn for a company long touting its job creation, Amazon will have eliminated 27,000…

‘I’m Back’, Writes Donald Trump as His First Facebook Post After Two-Year Ban

‘I’m Back’, Writes Donald Trump as His First Facebook Post After Two-Year Ban

Former US President Donald Trump wrote his first Facebook post on Friday after being banned from social media platforms for two years. “I’M BACK,” Trump posted along with a 12-second video which seems to be his victory speech after winning the 2016 election and also tried to put out his…

Instagram Said to Be Working on ‘Latest Shares’ Feature That Lets Users Discover, Reshare Older Reels Easily

Instagram Said to Be Working on ‘Latest Shares’ Feature That Lets Users Discover, Reshare Older Reels Easily

Instagram is reportedly testing improvements to how users can search for and rediscover previously shared Reels in Direct Messages (DM). In the future, Instagram could feature an additional row in the DM page, with avatars of the friends with whom you shared a reel, making it easier to access and…

Facebook Parent Meta Plans Additional Layoffs in Coming Weeks: Report

Facebook Parent Meta Plans Additional Layoffs in Coming Weeks: Report

Facebook-parent Meta Platforms is planning additional layoffs to be announced in multiple rounds over the next few months, which could match the 13 percent job cut tally from last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter. Meta let go of 11,000 employees four…

Facebook Begins Testing Ability to View Messenger Chats Within the Main Application: Details

Facebook Begins Testing Ability to View Messenger Chats Within the Main Application: Details

Facebook parent Meta is testing the ability to access Messenger chats via the Facebook app again. The feature was previously available in the Facebook app, but the company moved chats to the standalone messenger app in 2014. It also removed the feature from the mobile website, in 2016 in order…

Samsung Files Trademarks for AR/VR Capable ‘Galaxy Glasses’, Smart Ring: Report

Samsung Files Trademarks for AR/VR Capable ‘Galaxy Glasses’, Smart Ring: Report

Samsung is reportedly gearing up to make additions to its wearable gadget offerings. The South Korean conglomerate has reportedly filed for trademarks in the US, which could be in line with the company’s efforts to expand its AR/VR and Mixed Reality portfolios. Although tech companies generally register trademarks that are…

Meta to Go Ahead With Acquisition of VR Platform Within Unlimited as FTC Withdraws Case

Meta to Go Ahead With Acquisition of VR Platform Within Unlimited as FTC Withdraws Case

The Federal Trade Commission voted to withdraw an antitrust complaint challenging Meta Platforms’s purchase of virtual-reality startup Within Unlimited, officially closing the agency’s case. The FTC sued to block the deal last year, filing twin complaints in federal court and its in-house court. Following a December trial in a San…

Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft’s ChatGPT, Google’s LaMDA

Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft’s ChatGPT, Google’s LaMDA

Meta Platforms introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft. The tool, LLaMA, is Meta‘s latest entry in the realm of large language models, which “have shown…