Facebook and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will team up to host two education-based hackathons in April, aimed at uniting education technology enthusiasts, education experts, and developers.
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Facebook marked Digital Learning Day) Wednesday by offering a list of available resources for educators on its Facebook in Education page.
After a researcher found a bug that would allow hackers to change users’ Facebook passwords and gain access to their profiles, ZDNet reported Tuesday that the company has patched up this issue.
Facebook teamed up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the “HackEd” hackathon Thursday, representing the kickoff of the charitable organization’s College Knowledge Challenge.
If you are a Facebook fan of the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres, Miami Marlins, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, or Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, you might have been a little alarmed Thursday, and not because of anything that happened on the field. A Major League Baseball employee reportedly hacked into those teams’ Facebook pages and posted funny and obscene messages, ranging from an announcement of a star player’s sex change to a dig at President Barack Obama.
Rather letting Spanish users know which friends have birthdays today, many are being greeted with the message “f*ck you b*tches”. The message, which appears to have been accomplished by tricking the Facebook Translations application, is being reported by numerous Facebook users who are viewing the site in Spanish. Other vulgar phrases seen around the site include, “See all dicks” rather than “See all photos” and “va a follar con”, which is an extremely vulgar Spanish phrase.
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