Brendan Iribe, one of the co-founders and former CEO of Oculus, has announced that he’s leaving Facebook. The departure has been attributed to a recent internal shakeup in Facebook’s virtual reality department as well as the cancellation of the “Rift 2” headset.
Alex Stamos, former chief of security at Facebook, says the US is not prepared for the 2018 midterms. In an interview with NBC, Stamos said that the US has failed to take aggressive steps to fix the clear vulnerabilities of election attacks and hacking.
Netflix revealed that it has added nearly 7 million new subscribers in the last quarter. The new numbers mean that Netflix now has a subscriber base of more than 137 million people all over the world.
Google is not aiming its superior AI programming toward combating robocalls to phones.
Google has become yet another high profile Silicon Valley tech giant to be engulfed in a privacy breach scandal. A bug in the API for Google+ had been allowing third-party applications and their developers to access data from Google+ users without permission.
Facebook announced last Friday that hackers had accessed account entry keys for over 50 million users. However, the impact could go beyond the 50 million accounts. The stolen entry keys may have been used to gain entry into other sites.
