Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Monday called on Facebook to pay "trusted" news publishers a carriage fee.

Shares of Facebook Inc fell more than 4% and were on track for their worst session in more than three months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes that he said would hit user engagement in the near term.

First Apple Inc came under fire and now Microsoft has said that software patches released to guard against microchip security threats slowed down some personal computers and servers.

The government's Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert NZ) says people should make sure software on their devices is up-to-date after a design flaw in most processing chips was made public last week.

Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the year-old software change was revealed.

Facebook Inc said it would begin using facial recognition technology to tell people on the social network when others upload photos of them, if they agree to let the company keep a facial template on file.

Snapchat faced a worldwide outage for at least four hours, prompting a flood of complaints on rival mobile application Twitter a day before posting its third quarterly earnings as a public company.

EU privacy regulators have rapped WhatsApp on the knuckles for not resolving their concerns over the messaging service's sharing of user data with parent company Facebook, a year after they first issued a warning.

Britain said WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption communication services allows paedophiles and organised crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law.