BlueSky: the social media venture finding a new use for domain names
The social media company BlueSky–founded in 2019 by Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey–was initially a research initiative for Twitter to investigate the feasibility…
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CIRA’s Back To School Security Checklist
Widespread use of smartphones means kids are leaving a larger digital footprint than ever before. With a new school year beginning, CIRA offers some excellent…
Facebook bought Meta domain from a Finnish legislator
When Facebook rebranded to Meta, it had to begin acquiring all of the “meta” domain names for its new internet presence. However, when the time…
What is Canada doing about the dark side of social media?
As part of their ongoing investigation into the role of social media in Canadian society, Global News is reporting on both the actions an inactions…
Recent Slack and Facebook outages
The Verge has broken down the widespread outages reported on Facebook, Instagram and the Facebook VR sections of their business. Facebook issued an explanation for…