IT之家 8 月 22 日消息，据科技媒体 TechCrunch 前天报道，Meta 掌门人马克 · 扎克伯格最近在爱尔兰置业，买下一座建于 19 世纪的城堡。    On Tuesday, WhatsApp unveiled a number of new privacy features, among them the option for users to look through their messages secretly.,After the next privacy update, users will soon be able to restrict who may see when they are online, stop others from screen-shotting certain messages, and leave groups without alerting the entire channel.,According to the company's blog, this month, all WhatsApp users will begin to receive two of the new features that are being launched, which include the ability to choose who can see when you are active and the ability to quit group chats silently.,WhatsApp added that the screenshot blocking feature is currently being tested and will not be available for a while. It will only be enabled on messages meant to be read once.,WhatsApp began obscuring users' online status to strangers by default in December. Even if this was a positive move, your whole list of contacts can still see if you are online as of now.,This year, WhatsApp introduced a number of other minor yet significant changes. The messenger has started enabling Android users to move their conversation history to iOS in addition to introducing emoji reactions and a means to speed up audio communications.,WhatsApp is owned by Facebook parent company Meta* and has more than 2 billion users worldwide. CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the business would "keep building new ways to protect your messages and keep them as private and secure as face-to-face conversations" when announcing the changes on Facebook* and Instagram.,WhatsApp was, however, widely criticized last year after changing its terms of service. At the time, a portion of WhatsApp's privacy policy that described what was shared with parent company Facebook, which has a poor reputation when it comes to securing user data, sparked worries from many users.,Some users flocked to Signal, another well-liked encrypted texting messenger, as a result of the upgrade, as well as to Telegram.,Follow Sputnik's Telegram channel to get all the latest news: https://t.me/SputnikInt,* Meta is an organization outlawed in Russia。据报道，扎克伯格买下了斯特兰卡利城堡（Strancally Castle）和占地 440 英亩（约 178 公顷）的庄园，价格大约在 2,300 万美元-3,500 万美元（IT之家注：现汇率约合 1.55 亿元- 2.36 亿元人民币）之间。一位发言人就此次事件表示：“扎克伯格和他的家人很高兴能够照料这座历史悠久的住宅，也期待在爱尔兰度过更多时间。”同时，这座城堡原本的主人是一名金融家，他曾在这里生活 25 年。这座城堡坐落于河畔，周围被大片绿地环绕，看起来非常壮观。其内部至少拥有 11 间卧室、4 间塔楼套房、1 个图书馆、1 间餐厅和 1 间会客厅。

B | 作为参考，Meta 的国际总部位于都柏林，而扎克伯格新买下的城堡位于沃特福德，从都柏林驾车过去大约需要两个小时。这并不是扎克伯格今年首次投资房地产。

C | 他此前和妻子斥资 1.7 亿美元（现汇率约合 11.45 亿元人民币），在迈阿密一处与杰夫 · 贝索斯（Jeff Bezos）同属的高端社区购入了一套住宅。