Federal authorities have charged 21-year-old California resident Trevon Maurice Franklin with criminal copyright infringement for allegedly sharing the movie "Deadpool" on Facebook. The pirated version of the movie, allegedly uploaded in February 2016, was able to be seen by more than 5 million people, the authorities allege.

Some 5 billion people globally – or about two-thirds of humanity now have a mobile connection, Venture Beat reports, citing fresh findings from GSMA Intelligence. “It’s worth noting here that mobile connections far outnumber individual subscribers, as many people have more than one SIM card, perhaps indicating multiple phones for their personal lives or two phones to cover work and social life,” VB writes.

Google Fiber still plans to expand its Gigabit broadband service to new cities, according to CEO Greg McCray. He also said most subscribers sign up for broadband-only service. "I expect we're going to see over-the-top be a much bigger player and I think that's good for consumers and that will help manage cost of video content a lot better," he reportedly said.

TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas takes issue with Facebook’s Safety Check feature, and questions whether a for-profit engagement-obsessed social network should be given such a huge responsibility. “Should Facebook be reacting to a tragedy by sending push alerts?” she asks. “Is that helpful? Or does it risk generating more stress than it is apparently supposed to relieve?”

Microsoft is adding some new filters to its AI-powered Pix Camera app. “These artsy filters may sound a lot like what standalone app, Prisma, does, but Microsoft's implementation was developed by Microsoft’s Asia research lab in collaboration with Skype,” Engadget reports. “Pix Styles use texture, pattern, and tones learned by deep neural networks from famous works of art instead of altering the photo uniformly like other similar apps.”

Facebook mistakenly exposed the personal information of about 1,000 content moderators, The Guardian reports. Worse yet, “Of the 1,000 affected workers, around 40 worked in a counter-terrorism unit based at Facebook’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland,” it writes. “Six of those were assessed to be ‘high priority’ victims of the mistake."

Among other suitors, Amazon is reportedly eying enterprise chat sensation Slack. “A deal could give San Francisco-based Slack a valuation of at least $9 billion,” Bloomberg reports, citing sources. “In January, Slack debuted an enterprise version of its chat software that allows tens of thousands of employees to collaborate across teams at major corporations like International Business Machines Corp.”

Facebook appears to have finally added a gif button to comments. “To use it, click the ‘GIF’ button in the comments section, and type what you’re looking for,” The Next Web reports. “Given GIFs have been a fundamental part of Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger properties … it figures the quirky animated clips would eventually make it to Facebook proper.”

Over the next two years, Spotify plans to pay record labels more than $2 billion in minimum payments, Recode reports, citing fresh financial filings. Notes Recode: “Spotify doesn’t spell out who that money is going to … But people familiar with the company confirm it is talking about two deals it has recently signed with Universal Music Group … and Merlin.” Meanwhile, “Spotify’s revenue grew more than 50 percent, to $3.3 billion last year.”

After about a month of testing, Instagram is broadly releasing its Archive feature. “The feature lets anyone on Instagram hide their old posts without deleting them,” The Verge writes. Bigger picture, “Instagram seems to be hoping that the archive will both stop people from deleting their photos and make people more comfortable with sharing certain photos in the first place.”