Month: September 2019
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Oculus Link Will Work With SteamVR According to Facebook
Facebook recently revealed at Oculus Connect 6 that most games designed for StreamVR will be playable using Oculus Link on the Oculus Quest when it’s released in November. Games like Beat Saber, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, & Fallout 4 will be available with the free update on the Quest. You’ll simply need to connect the VR…
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Tech Companies Snitching To The FTC About Facebook’s Corrupt Practices
Facebook isn’t known for being a very magnanimous company due to their massive privacy violations. Now they are feeling the heat from their anti-competitive & monopolistic practices. Recently, the Wall Street Journal revealed information from their sources indicating that Facebook’s rivals are ready to snitch to the Federal Trade Commission. Among the information they’re sharing…
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Twitter is rolling out a new “hide replies” feature
Twitter recently announced a new feature allowing users to hide replies. They’ve been testing it in Canada but have decided to start rolling it out in both the US and Japanese markets. February was the first announcement of the new feature and testing began in July. According to a Twitter blog post, “We saw that…
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Facebook Dealing With More Privacy Concerns Over Their Portal TV Device
Last year Facebook introduced Portal; a video chat device that works with Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp & Alexa. During the product launch people were loudly voicing their concerns over privacy due to Facebook’s poor history. Now, Facebook wants to go a step further with Portal TV that lets you attach a camera to your existing TV.…
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Major Security Flaw Found in LastPass
LastPass, the most well known password manager recently released a big fix that prevents malicious websites from stealing passwords previously entered using their browser extension. Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy found the flaw and revealed it to the company behind LastPass. Luckily, the vulnerability was found by Google’s team before it was in use by…
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Facebook Worried About New iOS Privacy Feature
In the coming weeks Apple plans to release an iOS update for iPhone that will alert users to apps collecting location data in the background. However, likely because of Facebooks negative privacy reputation they decided to head off potential revelations from Apple by making a blog post on how the Facebook app uses location data.…
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Facebook under Investigation for Antitrust Violations
Several states are looking into Facebook for possible antitrust law violations, according to the New York attorney general. Letitia James, the New York attorney general is leading the investigation. The other states involved include Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia. In particular, the investigation will focus on how…