Fraud on Instagram: This is what you should know about the new blackmail scam A new breed of scam on Instagram is causing fear among creator account users. Many of them have built up a large reach over the years with a lot of commitment. Now they have to fear that their account will suddenly be blocked – by Instagram. The new scam on Instagram comes from blackmailers who demand large sums of money to release the profile again. Those affected [...] Read more
Fraud on Instagram: This is what you should know about the new blackmail scam
Published on Nov 23, 2022
Meta employees hijacked Facebook and Instagram accounts and blackmailed users
Published on Nov 22, 2022
Meta employees hijacked Facebook and Instagram accounts and blackmailed users Meta employees apparently stole users' Facebook and Instagram accounts. In some cases, ransom payments were even demanded for the release of the accounts. At Meta, it seems that employees hijack users' Facebook and Instagram accounts time and time again. According to a Wall Street Journal report, there have been more than two dozen such incidents in the past year. Some [...] Read more
This is how you change the order of a photodump on Instagram
Published on Nov 20, 2022
This is how you change the order of a photodump on Instagram Have you posted a nice photodump on Instagram, but after a while you start to have doubts about the order of the photos? We've all been there. For a long time you couldn't change anything about it, but that is now possible. Photodump Whether you are (or have been) on holiday and want to share a lot of photos, or look back every month at the highlights of recent times: a photodump is [...] Read more
A Facebook user is sentenced for third-party comments on his wall
Published on Nov 20, 2022
A Facebook user is sentenced for third-party comments on his wall The Supreme Court has sentenced a Facebook user for breach of honor by not deleting comments posted by third parties on his wall and sentenced him to pay 3,000 euros to his neighbors, against whom the ratings were referring. The Plenary of the high court understands that it should have acted diligently in the face of these reactions: "You cannot simply ignore what is published on [...] Read more
Instagram accounts to discover Barcelona
Published on Nov 20, 2022
Instagram accounts to discover Barcelona Do you want to discover Barcelona through images? We show you the best Instagram accounts to do it. Nowadays we tend to share everything on Instagram. And to unify the images by theme and to reach the more people you improve, we use hashtags. But there are those who are not satisfied with that and decide to create themed accounts. Thus, there are some in which images of Barcelona are shared and therefore [...] Read more
Elon Musk says Twitter's free lunch costs the company $400 per meal
Published on Nov 20, 2022
Elon Musk says Twitter's free lunch costs the company $400 per meal because hardly anyone comes into the office Elon Musk said Sunday that free lunches for employees at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters cost more than $400 a meal because "almost no one" is in the office. According to records, the office's average occupancy rate over the past 12 months has been less than 10 percent, peaking at just 25 percent. Musk tweeted Sunday after the New [...] Read more
Ubisoft partners with Riot for chat control
Published on Nov 20, 2022
Ubisoft partners with Riot for chat control Ubisoft and Riot Games have started a collaboration to create better technology to combat toxic behavior in games. Toxic behavior is a common problem in video games. There are always hostilities, especially via chat and voice chat. Although they affect everyone in games, they are particularly aimed at women and minorities. That doesn't exactly make everyone in the gaming community feel comfortable. [...] Read more
Twitter locks out employees until Monday
Published on Nov 20, 2022
Twitter locks out employees until Monday The offices were closed and the electronic access cards deactivated. Some now fear that Twitter no longer has enough professionals "to keep the site running." Elon Musk's ultimatum to the remaining Twitter employees expired on Thursday at 5 p.m. EST. They should declare their willingness to work a lot of overtime at high work intensity or leave the company and receive three months' salary as severance [...] Read more
Meta, Amazon, Uber, Twitter… Tech laid off 120,000 employees in 2022
Published on Nov 19, 2022
Meta, Amazon, Uber, Twitter… Tech laid off 120,000 employees in 2022 We are witnessing a real bloodletting. Since the start of the year, 828 tech companies have laid off more than 120,000 people, according to the Layoffs.fyi site, which aggregates data from the American press. Its counter has been packed with the new wave of social plans announced in recent days at Meta, Amazon and Twitter. After hiring a lot during the pandemic – a flourishing [...] Read more
YouTube Shorts lets you use up to a minute of licensed music in your videos
Published on Nov 19, 2022
YouTube Shorts lets you use up to a minute of licensed music in your videos Currently, creators of clips on YouTube Shorts can use copyrighted music tracks up to 15 seconds in length. Alphabet's short-form platform now allows commercial music to be used in 60-second increments, at best, depending on agreements with record labels. Short-form content creators on YouTube Shorts will be happy to hear that Google has relaxed its rules regarding the [...] Read more
The YouTube application for television is getting a new visual and sound design
Published on Nov 19, 2022
The YouTube application for television is getting a new visual and sound design Google has provided the YouTube TV app with a new animated (and sounded) splash screen. The goal is to make it recognizable and memorable, much like Netflix's. YouTube is one of Google's flagship services. The Mountain View firm continues to make changes. For the best, when it comes to chasing charlatans with credibility stickers, for example. If you have a connected [...] Read more
Facebook employees hacked into accounts for bribes
Published on Nov 19, 2022
Facebook employees hacked into accounts for bribes Some of the employees were security agents who work for a subcontractor but had access to an internal company tool. The fault was gaping and the pirates rushed into it. The Wall Street Journal reveals that Meta - parent company of Facebook and Instagram - fired more than "two dozen employees and contractors last year", facing corruption charges. Clearly, these employees would have accepted [...] Read more
Instagram for the web finally adapts to large screens
Published on Nov 19, 2022
Instagram finally improves its interface on desktop, for an experience worthy of the name on computer. After finally allowing publication last year, Instagram continues to evolve the desktop version of its web application. The latest update introduces a refreshed user interface that includes the ability to take full advantage of large desktop screens, rather than being stuck on a bigger version of the mobile app, as TechCrunch reports. Instagram [...] Read more
Fraudulent sites promoted by #Instagram accounts with several hundred thousand subscribers
Published on Nov 19, 2022
Fraudulent sites promoted by Instagram accounts with several hundred thousand subscribers Whether in their Stories or their description, accounts, some of which exceed 300,000 subscribers, highlight misleading e-commerce sites, such as sneakerline.fr or shilder.com. "It's a crazy thing !" On an Instagram story published at the end of October and since disappeared, an account followed by more than 384,000 subscribers promotes the sneakerline.fr [...] Read more