Chris Hughes

Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words

UPDATED ‘General agents’ to infuse Meta’s products real soon now

AI + ML30 Dec 2025 | 28

Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips

No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people

AI + ML16 Dec 2025 | 10

Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger

The Chocolate Factory will also put its AI to work inside one of America’s biggest utilities

The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 |

'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole

Finish reading this, then patch

Security03 Dec 2025 | 33

UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants

Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain

Off-Prem28 Nov 2025 | 18

Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up

Embracing the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units would be easier said than done for The Social Network

AI + ML25 Nov 2025 | 6

Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers

Multiple internal studies allegedly buried by the company

Software24 Nov 2025 | 25

Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters

Zuckcorp will gladly pay you in 2065 for the eyewatering sums it is borrowing today

On-Prem31 Oct 2025 | 19

AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer

So they’re increasing spending on infrastructure to keep it that way

AI + ML30 Oct 2025 | 14

Shaq's new ride gets jaq'ed in haq attaq

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Judge spanks NSO; Mozilla requires data use disclosures; TARmageddon meets Rust; And more!

Security26 Oct 2025 | 12

Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster

Deal keeps debt off Social Media empire's books

On-Prem17 Oct 2025 | 23

Meta sends Arm a friend request asking for help with Nvidia’s Grace CPUs

No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet

Systems16 Oct 2025 |

Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears

Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem

Devops09 Oct 2025 | 5

Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt

AI + ML01 Oct 2025 | 16

Google, Meta and Vodafone want smartphone-makers to reduce their bandwidth bills

By supporting efficient video codecs in hardware, which to be fair will also help punters

Networks25 Sep 2025 | 23

Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over

Off-Prem19 Sep 2025 | 29

WhatsApp's former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting

Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security

Legal08 Sep 2025 | 12

Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK

Updated Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back

AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 19

Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options

Legal05 Aug 2025 | 34

AI is contributing to Meta’s growth – just not the kind anyone cares about

Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what’s really paying for Zuck’s genAI splurge

AI + ML01 Aug 2025 | 6

Zuck tries to justify AI splurge with talk of 'superintelligence' for all

You get a superintelligence and you get a superintelligence. Everybody gets a superintelligence

AI + ML30 Jul 2025 | 44

Italy says Meta may be violating law with AI in WhatsApp

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well

AI + ML30 Jul 2025 | 4

Meta joins Google in ragequitting EU political ads over onerous regulations

Zuckercorp blames legal uncertainty under upcoming TTPA law

Legal25 Jul 2025 | 49

Meta eggheads demo Bluetooth wristband that decodes muscle twitches for UI control

Unlike traditional input, no cameras or surgery needed, they claim

Science23 Jul 2025 | 12

Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines

GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges

AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 17

Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor

Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs

Off-Prem17 Jul 2025 | 33

Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day

Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it

Public Sector04 Jul 2025 | 17

Meta calls €200M EU fine over pay-or-consent ad model 'unlawful'

'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then?

Personal Tech03 Jul 2025 | 65

More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case

Updated Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers

AI + ML27 Jun 2025 | 20

Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project

DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense'

Public Sector17 Jun 2025 | 6

US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name

Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201

Public Sector13 Jun 2025 | 28

Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up

Exclusive Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly

AI + ML13 Jun 2025 | 56

Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads

Despite 'multiple enforcement actions,' Joy Timeline HK allegedly wouldn't stop

Legal12 Jun 2025 | 37

Meta just saved an Illinois nuclear plant that was set to be mothballed

The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters

Science03 Jun 2025 | 26

Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them

Public Sector30 May 2025 | 22

US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media

Against backdrop of EU rules on spread of misinfo plus UK probing role of online hate in far right riots

Personal Tech29 May 2025 | 108

Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool

Millions may fall for it - and end up with malware instead

Cyber-crime27 May 2025 | 7

Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz

Nick Clegg, former politico and Zuckcorp policy Prez, seems confused, can Reg readers help him?

AI + ML27 May 2025 | 148

Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts

Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over

AI + ML22 May 2025 | 25

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

'Legitimate interest' won't wash, says privacy outfit, as Zuck's org claims activists want to 'delay AI innovation'

AI + ML14 May 2025 | 71

Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle

Don't f&#k with Zuck

CSO06 May 2025 | 17

Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills

World War Fee Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says

AI Infrastructure Month02 May 2025 | 36

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

Seriously, HTF does Reality Labs bleed SIXTY BILLION US DOLLARS in FIVE years?

Personal Tech01 May 2025 | 60

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

Satya Nadella reveals attempts to merge Word, PowerPoint, Excel, which may now happen with LLMs

AI + ML30 Apr 2025 | 89

Meta bets you want a sprinkle of social in your chatbot

Sharing is caring when your entire business is built on it

AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 3

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA

Bad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationship

Legal23 Apr 2025 | 52

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?

AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 22

Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan

Security11 Apr 2025 | 26

Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you

Column Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 28

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so

AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 3

Meta debuts its first 'mixture of experts' models from the Llama 4 herd

Says they’re done right as they don’t lean so far left

AI + ML07 Apr 2025 | 38

This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer

Opinion Well, maybe not richer, but we're about to find out

Software17 Mar 2025 | 76

Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away

AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 24

eBPF. It doesn't stand for anything. But it might mean bank

Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI

OSes09 Mar 2025 | 23

Quad goals: Meta proposes QLC SSDs as a new storage tier in datacenters

Trying to find a middle ground between spinning rust and performant TLC

Storage07 Mar 2025 | 6

Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses

And really, nothing out of the ordinary for Silicon Valley

Bootnotes22 Feb 2025 | 17