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Facebook take part to content creators and comes up with a solution against thieves

Facebook announced a new technology that will allow them to better track pirated videos and be more prompt in removing them from social network. The system which compares the video files will allow content creators to determine whether they have been “robbed”. The system was developed after a

It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash

Alex Stamos is the new chief security officer at Facebook and recently he declared that It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day. Even if 18 months from now, one set

Facebook continue to follow online activities of users, even if they are not connected to the network

Belgian researchers have recently discovered that Facebook can track the online activity of its subscribers, even when they are not logged on social networking platform. The US company have started difficult week in Europe.  Since the preliminary hearings will begin Monday in the trial of the Facebook ,  in Vienna, submitted

Facebook vulnerability allows deleting any photo

This vulnerability allowed (it was fixed recently) malicious users to delete any photo album available on Facebook. This exploit of the Facebook Graph API allowed hackers to delete any photo album owned by a user or a page or group from Facebook. The main utility of the

HHVM vs PHP 5 battle. HHVM is much faster

HHVM vs PHP is a battle that you should consider. Which one is more faster. Is HHVM more performant than PHP? Does HHVM consume less CPU than PHP? Which one is more stable and which one could be used in production? These are questions that might get

HHVM has long term support from Facebook

Since September 2, HHVM (hip hip virtuam machine) has long term support from Facebook team and from the HHVM team. Facebook understands that, in order to reach every corner of PHP programming language, it’s users need to have a commitment, in order to plan their deployments and

Zuckerberg: “WhatsApp will become the largest messaging platform in the world. ”

Zuckerberg said he thinks WhatsApp will become the largest messaging platform in the world. Chairman & CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, estimated that the number of service users WhatsApp will reach 3 billion people in the near future.He mentioned that Facebook is prepared to spend billions of

Facebook launches Hack Lang, a new programming language for HHVM

Yesterday, Facebook officially announced on it’s blog the Hack Language. Hack Lang is a programming language that Facebook deployed for HHVM, a programming language that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. The main feature of the Hack Language is the fast development of PHP with the discipline provided by

Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline Cover Photo Hacked ?!

The hacker Dr.FarFar claimed that he changed the Timeline Cover Photo of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account. Hacker Dr.FarFar explained that he used the “Report abuse” option on Zuckerberg’s Cover image, and choosed, “I don’t like this photo of me” and then “I used Fiddler2 Debugger Program to

Google, Apple and Facebook have revealed the number of requests for data required by the NSA

Several giants of the Internet, including Google, Facebook and Apple, eager to regain the trust of their users, published Monday the number of secret applications required by the NSA, a first of the revelations of Edward Snowden, says AFP. A week ago, the U.S. authorities in accordance