'Facebook puts profits over user' safety': Whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies at US Senate

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Samsung Electronics Likely to Ride Rising Chip Prices, Phone Sales to Report Best Quarterly Profit in 3 Years

Samsung is likely to turn in its best quarterly profit in three years and a record revenue, on rising memory chip prices and brisk sales of its new foldable smartphones, analysts' estimates show.

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Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Faced 'Worst Outage' in Years, Rebuts Whistleblower's Claim

Facebook faced the "worst outage" in years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on October 6 and issued an apology for the troubles users faced as most of the social networking giant's services went down for nearly six hours on Monday. Zuckerberg also put out a staunch defence against the accusation that Facebook prioritised profit over safety.

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Telegram Added Over 70 Million New Users During Facebook Outage: Founder Pavel Durov

Telegram gained over 70 million new users during the recent Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearly six hours.

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Facebook outage was caused by maintenance error, company says

The Facebook outage was the largest that Downdetector said it had ever seen. It blocked access to apps for billions of users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, further intensifying weeks of scrutiny for the nearly $1-trillion company.

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EU lawmaker backs ‘country of origin’ principle to regulate Big Tech

The principle means Ireland is responsible for regulating Apple, Google and Facebook because they have their European headquarters there while Amazon is subject to Luxembourg's supervision.

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Telegram founder says over 70 million new users joined during WhatsApp outage

"The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day," Telegram founder Pavel Durov wrote on the platform after the Facebook outage.

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