Meta admits a Bug led to spread of misinformation for six months
- 01-Apr-2022
Social media giant Meta has admitted that a bug led to a spread of misinformation over Facebook between October and March, Daily Mail reported. Facebook’s parent company Meta has admitted that a bug led to a ‘surge of misinformation’ and other harmful content appearing in News Feeds. According to an internal document, engineers at Meta […]
Windows 11 bug charges laptop battery to over 100%
- 08-Nov-2021
Last week, there were a slew of Windows 11 bugs reported, but an unusual one was found that may be pushing laptop batteries beyond their 100 percent charging capacity. The weird bug was initially spotted by a Redditor named Zondax, who shared a screenshot on the r/Windows11 subreddit, showcasing a laptop with a 103% battery level. […]
WhatsApp backup stuck at 100%? Here’s how you resolve this bug
- 13-Oct-2021
Are you one of the people who have their WhatsApp backup stuck? You might have thought it is something wrong with your phone, but it is a registered problem among the masses, one that has been discussed on web portals for a while. However, seemingly a user has identified a fix for this longstanding issue. […]
iOS outage: Facebook fixes bug that crashed TikTok, PUBG, other apps
- 10-Jul-2020
Many of the social apps including TikTok, Waze, Pinterest were not working on iPhones due to a Facebook bug around the global earlier today.
Apple rolls out free repair for iPhone 6S devices that do not turn on
- 05-Oct-2019
Some handsets may not power on due to a failed component.
Twitter cuts suspect users from follower counts again, blames bug
- 11-Nov-2018
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter made another attempt to make users’ tallies of followers more accurate, subtracting millions of suspicious followers which had reappeared on the social media service since a major purge in July. Twitter is under pressure to tackle its problem of fake users, which are a turn-off for investors and advertisers and have led […]
Facebook bug unblocks unwanted connections for a bit
- 03-Jul-2018
Facebook on Monday said it is notifying more than 800,000 users that a software bug temporarily unblocked people at the social network and its Messenger service. The glitch active between May 29 and June 5 has been fixed, according to Facebook, which has been striving to regain trust in the aftermath of a Cambridge Analytica […]
Facebook to refund some advertisers after discovering bug
- 17-May-2017
CALIFORNIA: Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would refund some advertisers after finding a bug that wrongly attributed video carousel ad clicks as clicks to the advertisers’ websites. When users tried to expand and watch the video carousel on the mobile web browser, the bug inadvertently directed the click to the advertiser’s website, leading to […]
Bug causes personal data leak, but no sign of hackers exploiting: Cloudflare
- 24-Feb-2017
SINGAPORE: A bug in its software left hundreds of thousands of webpages hosted by Cloudflare Inc leaking encrypted personal data, but there was no sign yet the leak had been exploited by hackers, the Internet security firm said on Friday. Cloudflare hosts six million websites, spreading them across the Internet to put them closer to customers […]
Beware: This message can instantly freeze your iPhone
- 19-Jan-2017
An emoji-based message designed by hackers to crash or freeze iPhones is sending scare among the phone owners, after some reports of it crashing the expensive devices. The’ encrypted message’ can freeze your Apple iPhone even without you opening it. This means that the message can freeze your iPhone as soon as you receive it. […]