Facebook suffered a huge outage starting on Wednesday that affected users worldwide. The social network said on Thursday that changes to a server configuration were to blame. Users flocked to Twitter ...

News outlet TechCrunch found a database of 419 million Facebook users containing unique IDs and phone numbers left unprotected on a server that anyone could access. Facebook says it has fixed the ...

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Having a proliferation of server makes and models over a span of years in the datacenter is not a huge deal for most enterprises. They cope with the diversity because they support a diversity of ...

Facebook on Wednesday rolled out some staggering statistics related to its social networks. Each day, users watch 100 million hours of video, 400 million people use Messenger, and more than 95 million ...

In just six years, Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) has become a major phenom in the data center hardware industry that has attracted an almost cult-like following among engineers. And on ...

Facebook is completely overhauling its server hardware in tandem with an expected increase in visual content on its suite of platforms. The company’s director of technology strategy, Vijay Rao, ...

Facebook has resolved a serious security flaw within a company server which permitted the remote execution of code by threat actors. Security researcher Daniel 'Blaklis' Le Gall, from SCRT information ...

PRINEVILLE, Ore. — Social media giant Facebook announced Thursday that it will add two new buildings to its campus in Prineville that will make it the largest in its fleet of data centers in the ...