Twitter has skilled a serious outage affecting giant swaths of Europe and North America, amongst different locations, leaving hundreds of annoyed netizens unable to vent their anger. ...

As Venice reels from the town’s second-highest floods in 50 years, some on-line have chosen to make gentle of the state of affairs, sharing a meme of Greta Thunberg with the caption: “I instructed you.” For sure, this irked many on-line. ...

Google has acquired the health monitoring machine producer Fitbit, unnerving customers who hoped to maintain their well being information out of Huge Tech’s clutches. It guarantees to not use the info for advertisements, however does anybody actually consider that? ...

A YouTube outage has taken out the feedback sections and proposals on movies, leaving many customers with no alternative however to make their very own choices on what to look at subsequent. ...

When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over ‘separatists’ inflicting chaos. When the identical tactic’s utilized in Hong Kong, it’s a ‘pro-democracy’ protest. ...

Twitter has issued a mea culpa after realizing that telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses offered by customers for “safety functions” had been by chance handed to entrepreneurs, serving to them goal ads on-line ...

A Google search outage had customers panicked around the globe as their search queries returned “inner server errors,” forcing them to make use of DuckDuckGo or (shudder) Bing – or take to social media to complain. ...

In an unprecedented federal knowledge seize, the US Division of Justice has known as on Google and Apple to reveal the names and knowledge of hundreds of customers of a gun scope cellular app, reportedly as a part of a probe into illicit exports. ...

Fb has expanded its ‘fact-checking’ initiative to its picture and video sharing platform Instagram, introducing a brand new characteristic that can enable customers to report ‘pretend’ content material with the contact of a button. Learn Extra ...

Apple has introduced it's quickly suspending its program which monitored recordings from AI assistant Siri after experiences that it allowed the corporate’s human contractors to eavesdrop on non-public conversations. Learn Extra at mysouth.su ...