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Twitter Is Still Retaining Deleted Direct Messages
Twitter Is Keeping Your Deleted Direct Messages In this modern world of social media, I’m sure that at this point nearly everyone has dropped a messaging faux pas. This can, of course, vary. Perhaps an ill-advised comment. Perhaps a message to an ex you wish you’d never sent. With Twitter,…
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Facebook Confirms Bizarrely Message Glitch
Facebook Confirms Old Messages Are Appearing While you might be able to find various reasons to criticise Facebook, on the whole, it’s hard to argue that the social media site generally tends to work very well. You rarely hear of downtime and, more so, you really encounter any unusual problems.…
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Russian Hackers Reportedly Selling Facebook Message Details
Russian Hackers Reportedly Selling Facebook Message Details In the last year, Facebook has been hit with more than a few scandals surrounding how it handles our personal data. Most notably of which with the Cambridge Analytica matter which came to light earlier in 2018. It seems though that one Russian…
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Twitter Says Despite More Characters Messages Are Shorter
Twitter Says Despite More Characters Messages Are Getting Shorter You may recall that around a year ago, Twitter decided to increase the number of characters a user could post in a message. The increase, from 140 to 280 did raise concerns that the ‘short/snappy’ nature of the social media site…
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PS4 Users Claim Malicious Message Is Causing System Crashes
PS4 Users Claim Malicious Message Is Causing System Crashes The PlayStation 4, without doubt, is currently one of the most popular consoles ever released. While it might not have achieved the sale heights of the PS2, it (pretty effectively) managed to destroy Microsoft’s Xbox One in the most recent console…
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iPhone Users Frustrated Over Auto-Correct Issue
Apples iPhone auto-cowreck! Despite the somewhat tepid launch of the iPhone 8, the new X has largely been a success for Apple. With strong sales, despite Apple’s cry of low stock, the new high-powered phone has been shifting units without too much difficulty. In some instances, demand was a little…
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Belgians Aid Police With Cat Pictures
After the recent events in Paris, police in Belgium have been operating to find Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in the Paris attacks. The operations came to a height on Sunday when a search of Brussels was conducted amid requests from the police for people to not post information about their…
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U.S. Judge Tried to Bribe FBI Agent with Beer for Text Messages
We’ve all heard the stories, governments and agencies using every method under the sky for obtaining information. Although, I think this is the first time that I’ve heard someone try to obtain information by offering beer, at least that’s what Wayne County Superior Court Judge Arnold Ogden Jones is accused…
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US, UK, New Zealand and France – Who’s Spying On Who?
Over the past few years, people have been told more and more about countries which have been part of or are actively spying on one another. The biggest revelation coming when it was revealed by Edward Snowden the extent at which the American government was spying not only on foreign…
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WhatsApp Messages Led to Belgian Terror Arrests
The FBI have been trying hard to get unlimited access messages passed by encrypted messaging services. However, it apparently didn’t need that level of access to WhatsApp messages sent between members of an alleged Chechen jihadist group operating in Belgium. According to reports released. A pair of men were arrested and warrants were issued…
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Man Receives Access to High School Girl’s Account Due To Instagram Bug
There are a lot of applications out that which let users sign in using their Facebook account. However, Instagram is one application which ‘assumes’ that individuals have the same e-mail account for both services. This has ultimately led to a rather inconvenient situation. A man reportedly found out that he…
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Russian Snowboarder’s iPhone Crashes After Receiving 2000+ Messages During Olympics
We now know that an iPhone has its limits in terms of text messages, thanks to Russian Olympic snowboarder, Alexey Sobolev, who wrote his phone number on his helmet and wore it during a run. Now I know everyone would ask why on earth did he do that. Well, some…
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