Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Australian woman tries desi snacks for the first time

desi snacks

An Australian woman’s video of her eating desi snacks has gone viral online. Tannar ate Bhakarwadi, Nutcracker, Kurkure, Uncle Chips, mathri and many more desi snacks. Her responses to all of them were too funny to miss. Desi food is known all over the world for being tasty and different. We have plenty of proof … Read more

Meta informs Pakistani journalists about data privacy

Meta informs Pakistani journalists
  • Meta organized a briefing for Pakistani journalists on its privacy policies.
  • Meta provides users with a variety of features and tools to help them manage their privacy.
  • Meta aims to ensure that tailored advertising and privacy are not at odds.

At a nearby hotel in Islamabad, Meta—the company that owns Facebook and Instagram—organized a briefing for Pakistani journalists on its privacy policies.

The journalists were informed by Arianne Jimenez, Privacy Policy Manager at Meta in the Asia Pacific, regarding the social media company’s procedures to safeguard user data and confidential information on its platforms.

According to a spokesperson for Meta, maintaining the privacy of users’ information is essential to Meta’s goal of being a communications platform that prioritizes privacy.

According to her, privacy was essential to how Meta conducted business and was everyone’s duty at the social media company.

She continued by saying that Meta was dedicated to providing individuals more control over their privacy preferences, which is why it had created tools to increase transparency and allow people more control over how their data was used.

Meta provides users with a variety of features and tools to help them manage their privacy. These tools include the Privacy Center, Manage Activity, Audience Selector Tool, Privacy Checkup, Privacy Shortcuts, and Who can look me up?

In addition to assisting users in deciding who can view their content and adjusting how Facebook users can find them, these features make privacy, security, and ad control options more available to users.

For Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, the privacy center is the learning resource that offers practical, in-depth knowledge on privacy.

To ensure that tailored advertising and privacy are not at odds, Meta aims to assist individuals in understanding its data practices by providing them with greater information and controls over its goods and advertisements.

By adding or erasing preferences that have been created for them based on their Facebook profile information, activities, and use of other websites and apps, Meta offers Ad Choices to help users take control of their preferences.

By clicking on any advertisement or blog post in their News Feed, users can change their preferences using the Meta tools “Why I am seeing this ad?” and “Why I am seeing this article.”

Experts in fields such as data protection and privacy legislation, security, interface design, engineering, product management, and public policy advise Meta as it incorporates privacy protections into its products.

To protect people’s information, its privacy team attempts to include these viewpoints in every phase of product development.

Information security is ensured by tools on Meta platforms including Security check-up, Two-Factor Authentication, End to End Encryption, and extra Accountability for “Third Party Apps.”

Because Meta thinks that part of having a free and open internet means that people should be able to transfer their data to other apps and services they use, Meta gives people more control and choice over their data and gives them tools for deleting anything they’ve posted or transferring data to other services.

No user information is ever sold by Meta to anyone. The use and disclosure of the information provided by Meta is subject to restrictions on partners and other third parties that have access to particular data.

In order to provide its clients with the best user experience, Meta is constantly working to improve its privacy and security procedures.

 

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Viral Video: Monitor lizards wrestle on the road 

Monitor lizards

Two monitor lizards can be seen fighting in the middle of a Thai road. The reptiles’ fight stopped traffic for almost 30 minutes before they went somewhere else to settle it. Video has been seen by more than 8 million times on Facebook, YouTube and other social media. Have you ever seen two monitor lizards … Read more

Facebook problem spams celeb profiles, Twitter busy with memes

Facebook

Facebook had a down. Netizens found out that they could post anything on the Facebook walls of their favourite celebrities after a glitch on this social media site. It didn’t take long for the story to go viral, and profiles of Deepika Padukone, Tom Cruise, Rihanna, Sachin Tendulkar, Gordon Ramsay, and many others were spammed. … Read more

Facebook hit again by major bug

Facebook hit again by major bug
  • Facebook was hit by another technical glitch on Wednesday.
  • This time, the glitch had nothing to do with a network issue.
  • The company has now resolved the problem for those users still using the site.

The majority of users were able to stay online when Facebook was hit by a significant bug earlier today, which unlike the previous incident had nothing to do with a network issue.

This time, a configuration change was brought on by the weird glitch, and as a result, a deluge of celebrity posts appeared in users’ news feeds.

User feeds should function normally again since Facebook has now resolved the problem.

Facebook users’ news feeds were inundated with erroneous fan messages addressed to famous accounts due to an algorithmic flaw.

Numerous celebrities, including Lady Gaga, Eminem, Taylor Swift, Shakira, and many others would be the focus of these messages. It appeared as it did.

The issue immediately caught on other social media platforms, and as of this writing, there have been over 8,000 tweets about it on Twitter.

There are thousands of individuals currently using Facebook to post about the issue, and for some reason, the trending hashtag is #facebookhacked.

On Wednesday, numerous users also reported an outage on Facebook, according to a plethora of data filed on an online platform, a global connection tracker for internet services.

If the aforementioned glitch was connected to the outage is unknown.

A number of the most popular Facebook profiles, including those of Christiano Ronaldo, Rihanna, Shakira, and others, who collectively have more than 100 million followers each, were impacted by the huge bug, which turned out to be a huge one. Both desktop and mobile devices were affected, and Pakistan was one of those countries.

The problem, according to Facebook, was caused by a maintenance mistake that interfered with communication across Facebook’s data centers.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth was drastically reduced by $8.4 billion during this period as a result of the company’s stock falling by 5%.

 

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Meta comes to $37.5 mln settlement of Facebook lawsuit

Meta

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) came to a $37.5 million settlement. Claim blaming the parent for Facebook of disregarding clients.‘ Following their developments through their cell phones without consent. Meta denied bad behavior in consenting to settle. It didn’t promptly answer on Tuesday to demands for input. A primer settlement of the proposed class activity was … Read more

Facebook to assist Wikipedia through AI-based source verification

Facebook to assist Wikipedia through AI
  • Wikipedia has created a new AI tool that will simultaneously scan thousands of citations to analyze and validate the material they contain.
  • Citations and hyperlinks are required to prove that the material presented above is accurate and has been taken from a reliable source.
  • This will save time because it won’t take too long to hand-check each citation for keywords and meanings.

The free multilingual online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new AI tool that will simultaneously scan thousands of citations to assist analyze and validate the material they contain.

Request for Citations

A database with more than 4 million citations is used by Wikipedia. In order to be satisfied, users request citations in order to obtain proof for the claims. For instance, according to a Wikipedia article, President Obama visited Europe before going to Kenya to meet his paternal relatives for the first time. Citations and hyperlinks are required to demonstrate that the material presented above is accurate and has been taken from a reliable source.

Although hyperlinks don’t often provide full explanations, they are nevertheless useful in bolstering the content. The issue is that hyperlinks frequently point to unrelated pages that lack pertinent information. Either they give up reading the topic or they switch to another one, abandoning the first.

Meta begins developing an AI tool

Wikipedia has a page dedicated to Joe Hipp, the first American heavyweight boxer to compete in the WBA competition. Joe Hipp and boxing were not mentioned in the article; instead, it was explained how he was the first Native American boxer to challenge the WBA.

According to Joe Hipp, Wikipedia allows people to believe something even when the citations are false. Misinformation might be disseminated all across the world using this. Because of this, Facebook owner Meta began employing Meta AI to collaborate with the Wikimedia Foundation (a development research lab for the social media giant). They asserted that it is the first machine learning model to automatically scan a large number of citations simultaneously.

This will save time because it would take too long to hand-check each citation.

Meta AI Initiatives

“I suppose we were ultimately motivated by curiosity,” said Fabio Petroni, the research tech lead manager for the Meta AI team. “We were interested in discovering the technological envelope. We have zero confidence that this AI could accomplish anything significant in this situation. Nothing like it had ever been attempted before.”

He went on to explain how this gadget will function, “Using these models, we have created an index of all of these webpages by grouping them into passages and giving each passage an accurate representation that does not represent the passage word-for-word but rather the meaning of the passage.”

“This means that in the resulting n-dimensional space where all of these passages are recorded, two chunks of text with comparable meanings will be represented in a very close place.”

The team is still striving to make it clear, says Petroni: “What we have produced is a proof of concept. Right now, it’s not really usable. You need a new index that indexes a lot more data than what we presently have in order for this to be useful. It must be updated frequently as fresh information is added daily.”

This indicates that the AI tool supports multimedia in addition to text. It will be useful on various platforms that handle photos and videos.

 

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Watch: Kerala doctors outstanding dance to Pala Palli Thirupalli

doctors

Veena George shared the video that has gone viral online on Facebook. They danced to Prithviraj Sukumaran’s song “Pala Palli Thirupalli,” and their amazing moves blew the internet away. When the video was shared online, it got more than 5 million views. People usually think of doctors as being very serious and scary. But these … Read more

Alligator attacked on the women in the birthday party; See Video

Alligator attacked women

The lady in the party started to play with the Alligator. The interesting video on Instagram went viral. Alligator attacked on a lady. With the influence of social media on the public especially Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok the user not only gets information but also entertains themselves by watching the funniest moments around the … Read more

Woman exposes cheating boyfriend in newspaper ad

cheating boyfriend

A woman named Jenny put an ad in the independent Mackay and Whitsunday Life newspaper. She accused her ex-boyfriend of cheating on her and sent him a mean message about it. Post got over 3,000 likes on Facebook and a lot of comments from people all over the web. Cheating in a relationship with their … Read more

Facebook may profit from white supremacist groups

Facebook white supremacist groups

Facebook shows ads when users search for ‘Ku Klux Klan’ or ‘American Defense Skinheads. 40% of white supremacist group queries had advertising. Facebook has been criticized for years for auto-generating Pages Facebook makes money off of white supremacist groups by showing ads when people search for dangerous groups like “Ku Klux Klan,” even though this … Read more

Snapchat offers advertisers new ways to connect with audience

snapchat

Snapchat says its app makes the relationship between advertisers and customers more grounded and personal. Snapchat users interact 32% more with ads than TikTok users and 62% more than Facebook users. Their claims are backed by neuro-statistical insights, according to a report from Neuro-Insight. Snapchat has told us some new things about its app in … Read more

TikTok will do better at influencer marketing than Facebook

TikTok influencer

Instagram has been quietly changing its feed and algorithm to show more creator content. Advertisers spent $774.8 million on TikTok influencer marketing. it’s moving close to YouTube’s slice of the pie. TikTok spent four years catching up in influencer marketing because it didn’t launch in the West until 2018. Despite its status as a cultural … Read more

Using Twitter to promote yourself may lead to a higher salary

Twitter promote

University of Texas study looked at pay information from CEOs, CIOs, CPOs, and others. Twitter was the most popular social media site because it lets you reach a larger audience. Tweeting about knowledge, expertise, and abilities increases employment prospects by 32%. A new study by researchers at The University of Texas shows that executives who … Read more

Watch: Man took his wife’s meme-face pillow on vacation

meme-face pillow

Raymond Tan Fortunado took his wife Joanna’s meme-face pillow on vacation. He used it while kayaking, diving, shopping, and eating hotel breakfast. You made me cry there. My sadness is gone. I love you mamu, he said. In today’s weird news, a man is called goals by some and amusing by others. He took a … Read more

Viral Video of shocking fist fight between 2 families 

shocking fight

Two families fought at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Onlookers filmed the shocking fight, which went viral online. TikTok removed the video, but it spread on Twitter and Facebook. Two families fought at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Onlookers filmed the shocking fight, which went viral online. TikTok removed the video, but it spread on … Read more

Viral Video: Man draws with both hands without looking at blackboard

man draws on blackboard

A man draws on a blackboard with both hands and without looking at it. The video has gone viral with more than 1.5 million views. It looks like he was looking into a mirror as he works on each picture’s details one by one. In the video that is going viral, a man draws on … Read more

Facebook adds a new chronologically ordered tab called Feeds

Facebook

Today, Facebook announced a fairly significant update to its app. The main feed that appears when you launch the app is now called Home, which makes sense and is long overdue. However, this is not the major news.

Feeds, a new tab that has been added to the app, is the major news. This tab is arranged in reverse chronological order, similar to what the Home tab was before the algorithm took control.

The Feeds tab has its own filters; you may choose to see everything or only content from your friends, groups, pages, or favourites; this is a curated list of the friends and pages you care most about.

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Facebook home feed about to be updated

Facebook home feed
  • Facebook is making an effort to compete with rivals like TikTok for users’ attention.
  • The platform is dividing its main “home” area into two tabs.
  • Facebook seems to want to give users a choice as to whether they want to engage with the new direction.

The platform is dividing its main “home” area into two tabs as of Thursday. In order to effectively compete with rivals like TikTok for users’ time and attention, Facebook is making an effort to show users more engaging, recommended content and to become what cofounder Mark Zuckerberg has referred to as a “discovery engine.”

Users will now see a home tab when they open Facebook (FB), which is intended to assist them in finding new material based on tailored, machine learning-powered recommendations.

The firm is now encouraging users to post to both platforms, and the home tab will also include Facebook Stories and Instagram Reels.

There will be a new “feeds” tab next to the home tab that will show users the most recent postings from friends, groups, and sites they follow instead of any suggested content.

Users can also create a “favorites” feed within the feeds tab to filter the friends, pages, and groups that are most important to them.

According to the firm, adverts would still be shown on both tabs. Additionally, the other tabs that users are accustomed to, such Facebook Watch and Groups, will not change.

The business issued a statement saying, “We recognize you may desire additional alternatives when it comes to selecting and viewing your material.”

“Sometimes you might already know what you’re looking for, like the most recent postings from your groups, or you could just want to find something interesting to read.”

The platform’s new appearance follows last week’s revelation that users will now be able to have up to five profiles under each account on Facebook.

According to Facebook, the feature is meant to make it simpler for users to customize their experience when interacting with particular communities on the platform, such as friends vs. coworkers.

Years ago, it was claimed that Facebook and Instagram were replicating competing platforms’ hottest new features rather than coming up with their own.

Nearly equivalent to TikTok videos are Instagram Reels, which Meta is now working to more deeply integrate with Facebook (in fact, when the feature first launched, many users simply uploaded TikTok videos to Instagram, complete with the rival logo).

The platform improvements also appear to be an effort to emulate TikTok’s success in retaining users by displaying recommended content, while Facebook seems to want to give users a choice as to whether they want to engage with the new direction or stick with the site as it has always been.

TikTok’s aggressive competition is being fought off by Facebook parent firm Meta (FB), which is one of the factors impeding the business’s profit growth.

Investors were stunned by Meta’s uncommon quarterly user growth stopping report in February, whose trend somewhat improved in the first three months of this year.

The business is expected to release financial results for the three months that ended in June next week. It had anticipated total sales of between $28 billion and $30 billion, which would be roughly in line with the performance of the previous year.

The transformation from a social network firm to one focused on a “metaverse” powered by augmented and virtual reality is now underway at Meta. But in order to finance investments into that ambition, it must continue to reap money from its current platforms.

Beginning on Thursday, the new feeds tab will start showing up in the shortcuts bar for select Facebook users. It is anticipated to roll out internationally over the course of the following week.

 

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To compete with Facebook, Microsoft is developing its own social app

Microsoft

Microsoft will soon have Viva Engage, which is similar to Facebook. The company plans to start its own social media platform. It will be released in “late August.” Microsoft will soon have Viva Engage, which is similar to Facebook. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made the announcement. He said that the company plans to start its … Read more

Facebook will soon allow creation of several profiles on a single account

Facebook
  • Facebook is testing a new feature that allows you to create several profiles on the same account.
  • This will allow you to build separate profiles for business, family, friends, and other purposes.
  • Facebook is currently testing the feature with a limited number of insiders.

Facebook currently only allows you to create one profile per account, although this may change in a future update. The social media behemoth is currently testing a new feature that will allow users to create several profiles on the same account.

The purpose of this new feature is to allow users to create distinct profiles based on the groups with which they choose to communicate. This will allow you to build separate profiles for business, family, friends, and other purposes, ensuring that you can quickly and without interruptions access the relevant groups based on your profile.

According to Facebook, the new tool is intended to “help people customize their experience based on their interests and relationships.” The social network is presently testing the function with insiders, and it allows you to create up to five accounts on a single account, which should be sufficient for the majority of users.

You can have multiple usernames and profile information on each profile, but Facebook recommends using your real name on your primary one to minimize problems. Facebook has announced that all profiles on an account would be subject to the same business regulations to prevent any misunderstandings.

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The future of music and Web3

The future of music and Web3

Mixtape is a web3 app since it uses creator economy and blockchain. The Future It’s clear that there’s a lot of excitement. Web3 could improve artists’ and fans’ metaverse connections. Streaming music services make it easier for musicians to get heard. They’ve made it difficult for musicians to make a living. Spotify and Apple Music … Read more

Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger dead at 83

Sonny Barger

Sonny Barger was a founding member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. The 83-year-old spent decades as the face of the notorious biker gang. Netherlands became the first country to ban the Hells Angels. Sonny Barger, a founding member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club who spent decades as the public face of the notorious … Read more