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Twitter went offline for almost two hours on Thursday, in an outage that the social media platform - used by hundreds of millions worldwide - blamed on a technical glitch. On Thursday Twitter said that, under changes to its Hacked Materials Policy, it would "No longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them."
The social media giant said that it recently discovered that 5,000 developers received data from Facebook users - long after their access to that data should have expired. In 2018, on the heels of the Cambridge Analytica privacy incident, Facebook debuted stricter controls over data collection by third-party app developers.
Google has temporarily disconnected Xiaomi's IP cameras from its Home Hub service after a user reported that he was seeing images from other people's devices. Reddit user u/Dio-V found that Xiaomi's Mijia 1080p IP camera was sending still images from other peoples' homes when he accessed it via his Google Home Hub.
Samsung is reportedly rolling out fixes for a glitch that allowed anyone to dupe its Galaxy S10 fingerprint authentication sensor.
Third time's a charm? Further details have emerged on the 737 Max flight control software bug discovered at the end of June, with reports suggesting that belated tests by a US regulator found the...
Forgive the sins of the fathers: Mozilla to have another go at tackling teenage flaw Mozilla has been sitting on a new variant of an age-old flaw for almost a year, even with public disclosure...
And just who, exactly, is going to pay for new passports if it's necessary? Danish police are chatting with Kube Data about that.
The bug allows iPhone users to FaceTime other iOS users and eavesdrop on their conversations - even when the other end of the line doesn't pick up.
Twitter has fixed the issue, which has been ongoing since 2014.
A glitch allowed hackers to access contacts, photos and more on Android devices - simply by answering a Skype call.