Wolff said while Facebook continues to believe its BSD + Patents license has benefits, "we acknowledge that we failed to decisively convince this community."

Wolff said Facebook considered a license change for its other open-source projects, but wasn't ready to commit to anything. Some projects, he said, will keep the BSD + Patents license.

The plan, which Facebook announced last year, would have given shareholders two new non-voting shares for each voting share they owned.

Most companies operate according to a one-share-one-vote principle. But several high-profile technology companies, including Google, Facebook, and Snap, give extra per-share voting rights to founders and early investors.

The Anniversary Update was rapidly deployed, and it hit a number of issues soon after launch, causing problems for both consumers and enterprise users alike.

The Fall Creators Update will give enterprises a little more control over which telemetry data is collected, but a built-in way to disable telemetry collection entirely remains out of reach for regular consumers.

The company this week released a new software update for the company's OfficeJet 6800 series, OfficeJet Pro 6200 series, OfficeJet Pro X 450 series, and OfficeJet Pro 8600 series printers. One of the major "benefits" of the update? Printer cartridges from competing manufacturers no longer work.

Stop buying HP printers until the company realizes that eliminating device functionality under the pretense of security is obnoxious bullshit.

Researchers found a wide-open, public-facing misconfigured AWS S3 bucket containing pretty much everything a hacker would need to take down the company's IT systems.

The Amazon-hosted bucket could be accessed by any netizen stumbling upon it, and contained the passwords and manifests for Viacom's servers, as well as the access key and private key for the corporation's AWS account.

Users of Avast-owned security application CCleaner for Windows have been advised to update their software immediately, after researchers discovered criminal hackers had installed a backdoor in the tool.

It's unclear just who was behind the attacks. Yung said the company wouldn't speculate on how the attack happened or possible perpetrators. For now, any concerned users should head to the Piriform website to download the latest software.

Mullenweg said his concerns have not been assuaged. And he writes that he cannot, in good conscience, require users of the very widely used open source WordPress software to inherit the patent clause and associated legal risk. So he’s made the decision to ditch React.

Companies, especially those with large patent portfolios, may well have concerns if they are using open source software which incorporates Facebook’s React framework — even if Automattic feels comfortable on its own account.

Some of the fiercest critics of the patent clause have dubbed React a “‘Trojan horse’ into the open source community”.

"These customers live outside of areas where Verizon operates our own network," Verizon said. "Many of the affected consumer lines use a substantial amount of data while roaming on other providers’ networks and the roaming costs generated by these lines exceed what these consumers pay us each month."

One customer, who contacted Ars this week about being disconnected, said her family never used more than 50GB of data across four lines despite having an "unlimited" data plan.

"The only good news? Verizon wants to disconnect customers so badly, they are willing to forgive the remaining owed balances for any devices financed through Verizon."

Until this week, when we asked Facebook about it, the world’s largest social network enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of “Jew hater,” “How to burn jews,” or, “History of ‘why jews ruin the world.’”

Facebook’s automated system suggested “Second Amendment” as an additional category that would boost our audience size to 119,000 people, presumably because its system had correlated gun enthusiasts with anti-Semites.

The biggest advertising organizations say Apple will “sabotage” the current economic model of the internet with plans to integrate cookie-blocking technology into the new version of Safari.

The groups say the feature also hurts user experience by making advertising more “generic and less timely and useful.”