Facebook's new AI tools offer more of the same, with photo-editing and question-answering capabilities Facebook's new AI tools offer more of the same, with photo-editing and question-answering capabilities Now you can ask a different chatbot which restaurant to try. Meta just announced a suite of AI tools for Facebook users. Nothing here looks especially new, but availability on Facebook could be of some use to certain power users. This is a standard chatbot that answers questions, with Meta using the example everyone uses when rolling out one of these tools. The company highlights a person asking the chatbot for nearby summer vacation spots. Meta does say that AI Mode pulls data from across its apps, like from Groups and Reels, so maybe the information provided will be slightly different than when asking about summer getaways via Gemini, Claude, Grok, ChatGPT and all the rest.

The CyberGuy, Kurt Knutsson, tells'Fox & Friends' about the'danger' of e-scooter speed limit hacking and robot janitors doing the'dirty work' for companies. An automation company's commercial bathroom-cleaning robot is giving consumers hope that one day there will be an at-home version. Somatic, a technology-focused cleaning service based in New York City, has seemingly grown enough in the three years since its founding that consumer technology shoppers are voicing their hope for residential bathroom-cleaning robots. Technology journalist and contributor Kurt Knutsson, also known as the "CyberGuy," spoke with Ainsley Earhardt of "Fox & Friends" on Friday, Sept. 15, to discuss Somatic's offerings. "You got to see this robot from Somatic," said Knutsson during his in-studio interview.

Meta has been hit with a €265 million ($277 million) fine for failing to prevent millions of Facebook users' mobile phone numbers and other data from being scraped and dumped online, Independent.ie It's the second fine levied by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in just the past few months, following a €405 million ($402 million at the time) penalty issued in September. In just the last 18 months, Meta has tallied nearly €1 billion in fines. The penalty was issued in response to the leak of 533 million Facebook users' data reported in April last year. That included phone numbers, birth dates, email addresses and locations, information that could be exploited in phishing and other attacks.

Meta is shutting down Facebook's controversial face recognition feature and deleting the face data collected from users through the social media network, citing "growing societal concerns". But privacy campaigners are concerned that the company hasn't been clear on whether the algorithms trained on that data will be deleted. Images uploaded to Facebook have been scanned by artificial intelligence (AI) tools since 2010, giving the uploader the option of "tagging" people in the image. Meta, then known as Facebook itself, attracted criticism when the feature first launched for failing to ask permission from users, and has since struggled to align it with local privacy laws. In 2012, the company switched off face recognition for people in the EU after a German data protection commissioner said that it violated European Union law – it returned in 2018 with an explicit opt-in requirement.

Cybersecurity experts revealed a few days ago that over half a billion Facebook users' personal information have been leaked. It's a gold mine of data, which includes users' full names, birthdays, locations and phone numbers. Although Facebook claims that the actual hack happened a couple of years ago, it won't hurt if users made sure their account is not part of the breach and if they are, they should take a few preventive measures to ensure future incidents as messy as this one won't affect them. Australian Security Researcher and HaveIBeenPawned Founder Tony Hunt recently added the 533 million phone numbers exposed in the Facebook data leak to his website. Those worried if their mobile numbers were part of the leak can visit the site and check if their number is there.

Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. The data includes things like profile names, Facebook ID numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers. It's all the kind of information that may already have been leaked or scraped from some other source, but it's yet another resource that links all that data together--and ties it to each victim--presenting tidy profiles to scammers, phishers, and spammers on a silver platter. Facebook's initial response was simply that the data was previously reported on in 2019 and that the company patched the underlying vulnerability in August of that year. But a closer look at where, exactly, this data comes from produces a much murkier picture.

Washington – Data affecting more than 500 million Facebook users that was originally leaked in 2019, including email addresses and phone numbers, has been posted on an online hackers forum, according to media reports and a cybercrime expert. "All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free," Alon Gal, chief technology officer at the Hudson Rock cybercrime intelligence firm, said Saturday on Twitter. He denounced what he called the "absolute negligence" of Facebook. Some of the data appeared to be current, according to a report in Business Insider which AFP was unable to confirm independently. It said some of the leaked phone numbers still belong to the owners of Facebook accounts.

When the topic is WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger integration – whether it's your friend or foe – the person to ask is the master of all three. CEO of the Facebook Messenger marketing platform MobileMonkey, Larry Kim founded the advertising management and software and services company WordStream and is a columnist for Inc. magazine. He talked with marketing expert Madalyn Sklar about messaging and its rewards. "Nobody on Instagram ever wanted to message someone on WhatsApp," Kim said. "#InstaWhatEnger is totally for the benefits of businesses seeking to market to that enormous user community -- and for the benefit of Facebook profits."

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Thursday that Facebook users in Illinois can sue the company over its use of facial recognition technology. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Thursday that Facebook users in Illinois can sue the company over its use of facial recognition technology. A U.S. court has ruled that Facebook users in Illinois can sue the company over face recognition technology, meaning a class action can move forward. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued its ruling on Thursday. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, it's the first decision by a U.S. appellate court to directly address privacy concerns posed by facial recognition technology.

Facebook has agreed to pay a record $5 billion settlement to resolve an investigation into privacy violations, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday. The company will also create an "independent privacy committee" to ensure "greater accountability at the board of directors level," an FTC press release says. But the settlement won't affect Facebook's corporate governance structure, which lets Zuckerberg hold sway over the company's actions. Facebook has promised to clean up its act when it comes to privacy matters. But the social media giant's missteps have nonetheless cost it the trust of some users.