… On its Instagram account, also deleted after WIRED contacted Meta for comment, Snogo cultivated a flashy neon nightlife aesthetic and pitches its products as part of your “festival survival kit.” There were regular references to snow, along with promises that a Snogo straw will make you “the life o… …
… Meta began implementing age-verification tech in 2024 for Instagram users in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Now, the mechanism will be extended to Instagram accounts in Brazil and 27 European Union countries. …
… The company stopped offering encryption on Instagram on May 8, making it easier than before for the firm to technically access DMs. …
… Ahead of dangerous winter weather in January, Mamdani published a video to the official @nycmayor account on Instagram asking New Yorkers to sign up for the city’s free emergency communications program, NotifyNYC. …
… During her ascent, many profiles of Eilish made hay of her popularity online, complete with Instagram and Spotify stats. Fan accounts popped up to share and reshare all of Eilish’s music and shenanigans. …
… Engineers have reportedly been weighing two versions of the feature: one that would only identify people the wearer is already connected to on a Meta platform, and a broader version that could recognize anyone with a public account on a Meta service such as Instagram. …
Since creating an Instagram account in January, she’s gained 110,000 followers as a virtuoso on matters of sex, self-worth, and dating. …
… Hiding security codes: When you get a one-time password OTP via text, there's a risk that someone could intercept that information to hijack your account. Now, Android will automatically hide these security codes for three hours from most apps to prevent unauthorized access.
… Russian Hackers Are Going After Signal Accounts, Dutch Officials Warn Two of the Netherlands’ intelligence agencies, the General Intelligence and Security Service and the Defence Intelligence and Security Service, issued a joint cybersecurity notice warning the public that Russian state hackers hav… …
… This week, Meta entirely eliminated opt-in end-to-end encryption from Instagram Direct Messages after promising for years that it would roll out default end-to-end encryption on Instagram chat.