Facebook removed over 2 billion fake accounts in just three months

In its effort to combat the spread of false news and violence through its platform, the social media giant, Facebook has taken down 2.2 billion fake accounts during a course of three months, January to March, this year. This massive account removal development marks a record high for the company as the number is quite identical to the monthly active users of Facebook which reached a figure of 2.38 billion, as per last month’s stats.

To compare how big Facebook’s recent move is, it must be noted that Facebook had disabled 1.2 billion fake accounts in the previous quarter and 694 million between during the last three months of 2017. The new figures were recently released in the company’s third Community Standards Enforcement report. Moreover, Facebook has planned to release this report for the Facebook app and Instagram on a quarterly basis starting from 2020, rather than twice a year.

While explaining the need for the report, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg said;

“The health of the discourse is just as important as any financial reporting we do, so we should do it just as frequently. Understanding the prevalence of harmful content will help companies and governments design better systems for dealing with it. I believe every major internet service should do this.”

The world’s most popular social media network which according to the latest statistic, adds over 500,000 new users every day, can’t stop people from making new fake profiles every day. According to a report, 7 new profiles are being added to Facebook every second and this means that millions of fake Facebook profiles are created each month.

Some of the reasons behind the sharp increase in fake accounts have been explained by Facebook VP of Analytics Alex Schultz. He said one factor is “simplistic attacks,” which he claims don’t represent real harm or even a real risk of harm. He further detailed that this happens when someone makes a hundred million fake accounts that are then taken down right away. Schultz said they are removed so fast that nobody is exposed to them and they aren’t included in active user counts.

Facebook is applying all efforts to monitor the content on its platform to improve the identification system of fake accounts. Facebook will soon launch a pilot project where some of its content reviewers will focus on hate speech. The program aims to provide reviewers a “deeper understanding” of how hate speech manifests and make “more accurate calls.”

Account Switching: Now Available on Instagram

Starting this week, you can quickly and easily switch between multiple accounts on Instagram!
Go to your profile settings to add an additional account. From there, tap your username at the top of your profile to switch between accounts. Once you have multiple accounts added, you’ll see your profile photo appear in places throughout the app so you can always tell which one you’re using at the moment.
To learn more, check out the Instagram Help Center.

Account switching will be available as part of Instagram version 7.15 for iOS and Android.

And ENJOY INSTAGRAM.

Apple is working on New iPhone Even It Can't Hack

Amid an ongoing dispute with the United States government over a court order to unlock iPhone 5C of one of the San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook…

...Apple started working on implementing stronger security measures "even it can't hack" to achieve un-hackability in its future iPhones.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is deliberately forcing Apple to create a special, backdoored version of iOS that could let them brute force the passcode on Farook's iPhone without erasing data.

However, the FBI approached the company to unlock the shooter's iPhone 5C in various ways like:

• Create a backdoor to shooter's iPhone.
• Disable the Auto-destruct feature after numerous tries.
• Increase the brute force time to try out all combinations.
• Minimize the time of waiting for a window after each try.

..and much more


Apple is still fighting the battle even after the clear refusal to the court that it will not provide any backdoor access to the agency that would affect its users’ privacy and security in near future.

New iPhones will be Unhackable

Apple has taken this sensitive issue on top priority in their stack to solve the privacy and security of public by covering any existing way out (if any).

According to the New York Times, Apple is working on new security measures that would prevent the governments or federal enforcements from using passcode bypassing techniques to access iPhones or any iOS devices in the future.

This breakthrough would ensure that the upcoming Apple products would not be subjected to any susceptibility by any means.

In short, the main highlight of this move is that even Apple could not be able to intercept into their customer data whether it is for criminal identification demand from FBI or any government spying agency like NSA.

In San Bernardino shooter's case, Apple helped the FBI in every possible way by providing iCloud Backup of Farook and suggesting other alternative ways to view his iPhone data.

But, Apple refused to the FBI Request and Californian Judge demands for the backdoor creation in order to pull out the terrorist data from iPhone 5C.

Craziest Invents and Awesome Ideas

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1.RAIN-PROOF UMBRELLA

When a regular umbrella isn’t enough

2.SQUARE WATERMELON

Square Watermelons are both easier to pack and ship. They are gown in acase to get them into the shape.

3. BUBBLE WRAP KEY CHAIN

Instant stress-relief that’s always ready to pop.

4. 360 DEGREE CAMERA

Want to take a picture or record a video, in 360.

Here's Why Microsoft Drops a Cloud Data Center Under the Ocean

Where tech companies like Facebook and Google prefer to move their data centers to colder countries to reduce their air conditioning bill, Microsoft has come up with an even better home for data centers while cutting high energy costs for cooling them: Under the Sea.

Here's what Microsoft says:

                             "50% of us live near the coast. Why doesn't our data?"

Building massive data centers underwater might sound crazy, but it is exactly something Microsoft is testing with its first submarine data center, dubbed Leona Philpot.

World's First Underwater Data Center

The testing is part of Microsoft’s plan dubbed Project Natick — an ongoing research project to build and run a data center that is submerged in the ocean, which the company believes, could make data centers faster, cost-effective, environmentally friendly and easier to set up.

Leona Philpot (named after the Halo character from Microsoft's Xbox) was tested last August, when engineers placed an enormous steel capsule a kilometer off the California coast, 30 feet underwater in the Pacific Ocean.

A single data center computing rack was placed in an eight-foot-wide steel capsule, which was covered in around 100 sensors to monitor every aspect of the underwater conditions: pressure, humidity, and, most importantly, motion.

The test ran from August to November last year (exactly 105 days) and the engineers said it was more successful than expected.

Why Underwater Data Center?

According to Microsoft, these are the main reasons for experimenting with underwater data centers:

1. Air conditioning cost is one of the biggest pain in running data centers. Traditional data centers are believed to consume up to 3 percent of the world's electricity.