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EU Says Facebook And Instagram's 'Addictive' Design Is Illegal

The European Commission says Meta’s current mitigation measures can’t prevent social media addiction.

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The European Commission says Meta did implement addictive designs for Instagram and Facebook, and it is in violation of the bloc's Digital Services Act. It started investigating the company over addiction and safety concern for minors in May 2024, focusing on features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications and the apps' highly personalized recommendation systems. Now, the commission has released its preliminary findings, wherein it said that the company "did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minors and vulnerable adults."

Meta, the commission concluded, did not take into account that those aforementioned features will fuel users' urge to keep scrolling, thereby contributing to unhealthy habits and compulsive use of social media. Further, it said the company disregarded how formats like...

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Google admits not every Android app runs great on Intel Googlebooks

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Exploitation Hits Rejetto HFS Vulnerability Discovered by AI

Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Rejetto HTTP File Server (HFS) to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution (RCE), VulnCheck warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-61500 (CVSS score of 9.3), the flaw exists because the open source file server discloses outputs of its non-cryptographic session cookie generator to

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Exploitation Hits Rejetto HFS Vulnerability Discovered by AI