Facebook has won a legal battle with the Belgian data authority over how it tracks non-users with cookies.

Facebook is to give posts by users’ friends and family greater prominence – a move that may challenge professional publishers.

A robot salamander that mimics the movement of the real thing is developed in Switzerland.

An identity thief gains access to a Facebook account by sending a fake passport and asking the social network to turn off log-in approvals.

Names of individuals and organisations listed in the Thomson Reuters World-Check Risk Screening database are leaked.

Users are more likely to like something if it has a thumbs up logo, rather than the Facebook logo, according to the social network.