Taking a break from social media may come with real benefits, according to a major new study. Researchers at Stanford University asked about 36,000 Facebook and Instagram users to log off in the weeks ...

A Windows 11 security update triggered Microsoft app sign-in failures, prompting an emergency patch and a manual workaround for affected users. It’s not your Wi-Fi. It’s your Windows update. There is ...

Story update after outage was resolved. Social media giant Facebook suffered a worldwide outage that prevented users from accessing their accounts. When visiting the site, users were greeted with a ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that was causing the password sign-in option to disappear from the lock screen options after installing Windows 11 updates released since August 2025. The password ...

Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco For years, Alyssa Landguth, ...

Meta is testing a new way to create an account on Threads that will require a Facebook account to authenticate the login and base their profile on. This is not yet available to users as the option ...

Threads is testing letting you sign up with a Facebook account rather than an Instagram account. The new option, spotted by Social Media Today, doesn't appear to be widely available yet, but is ...

Meta on Monday said it has removed about 10 million Facebook profiles for impersonating large content producers so far in 2025, in an effort to reduce spam. This mandate comes at a time when AI is ...

Sometimes, a small thing reveals volumes about a big problem. I encountered one of these things recently. It turned out to be an example of how corporations are delegating more and more authority to ...

Meta is finally adding passkey support for Facebook and Messenger on mobile devices. This should make for more seamless logins, as a passkey lets people sign in by using the same data they already use ...

Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing Perhaps one of the most pervasive longstanding technology conspiracy theories is that your smartphone is constantly ...

The new authentication experience is part of Microsoft’s Fluent 2 design language push. The new authentication experience is part of Microsoft’s Fluent 2 design language push. is a senior ...