Chris Hughes

Untangling Meta's plan for its homegrown AI chips, set to actually roll out this year

So that's where all the laid-off semiconductor engineers went!

AI + ML02 Feb 2024 | 11

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

Meta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people'

Public Sector31 Jan 2024 | 70

Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform

Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law

Legal23 Jan 2024 | 26

China names members of a second tech supergroup to define the metaverse

Goggle-eyed Beijing wants technical and identity standards

Software23 Jan 2024 | 6

Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions

Asia In Brief PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets

Personal Tech22 Jan 2024 | 2

Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs

Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha – oh wait, they're serious

AI + ML20 Jan 2024 | 49

Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook

Mmm, Zuck up that data

Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 27

Data wrangler Zuckerberg becomes world's least likely cattle rancher

What a cowboy!

Bootnotes10 Jan 2024 | 19

Facebook, Instagram now mine web links you visit to fuel targeted ads

Infosec in brief Also: Twitter hijackings, BEC arrest, and critical vulnerabilities

Patches08 Jan 2024 | 20

Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse

$270M secret building project includes 5,000 sq ft bunker

Bootnotes18 Dec 2023 | 86

Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in models

Security boosted and inappropriate content blocked in large language models

AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 4

Meta starts rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger

Surfing the cryptographic wave

Applications07 Dec 2023 | 7

Meta killing off Instagram, Messenger cross-platform chatting

How could you, Mark? Oh, right - gotta avoid those pesky EU gatekeeper rules

Personal Tech05 Dec 2023 | 5

Spanish media sues Meta for ignoring GDPR and harvesting data

€550 million lawsuit seeks recompense for 'systemic and massive' disregard for privacy laws

Personal Tech05 Dec 2023 | 30

Today's 'China is misbehaving online' allegations come from Google, Meta

Zuck boots propagandists, Big G finds surge of action directed at Taiwan

Cyber-crime01 Dec 2023 | 9

Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data

Awkward hill to die on, but OK

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 22

Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it

A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong?

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 6

Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up

Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU

AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 3

Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids

'Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children ... it is now there in black and white'

Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 15

Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model

Scrolling through endless humblebrags without targeted ads is a fundamental right, according to privacy expert

Legal28 Nov 2023 | 90

With all eyes on OpenAI, Meta drags its Responsible AI team to the recycle bin

Ethics staff shifted to generative ML and infrastructure units

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 10

What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting off Europe's stiff antitrust rules

Gatekeeper status under DMA? Don't you know who I am?

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 11

Meta's fix for teen online mental health? Hold Apple and Google responsible

Facebook: If only we had a national law to ensure kids get parental permission to indulge in damaging social media

Personal Tech15 Nov 2023 | 31

To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question

One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54

Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland

Exclusive Tracking code and ad-block blocking breaks Euro computer law, privacy advocate claims

Personal Tech11 Nov 2023 | 44

Microsoft, Meta detail plans to fight election disinformation in 2024

Strategies differ, though both have gaps that could hurt efficacy

Security08 Nov 2023 | 10

Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals

Watchdog on a tear to level the playing field

Personal Tech04 Nov 2023 | 40

We're feeling pretty anti about these social networks

Kettle Meta faces personal info processing ban, needs to Thread the trademark needle in the UK, while Musk loses out

Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 9

Europe bans Meta from using personal data to target ads

EU folks have no chill, not that we're complaining

Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 73

Trademark fight: Brit biz Threads has a teeny tiny problem with Meta's Threads

Software house says it's had UK trademark since 2012 as Zuck & Co know full well

Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 23

Dell cosies up to Meta to tame Llama 2 AI beast on-prem

Spitting in the cloud's eye

On-Prem31 Oct 2023 | 1

Meta's ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time

If you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland

Security31 Oct 2023 | 115

Meta decides to Just Say No to Oversight Board requests and allow paid posts for ketamine

Because says nothing like quality medical care like an ad for the 'magical entry into another dimension'

Offbeat26 Oct 2023 | 20

33 AGs sue Meta for 'exploitative and harmful acts' against American children

Cracks down on the so-called four-pronged process of luring the youth

Legal24 Oct 2023 | 15

Meta Quest 3 is a virtual reality of repair insanity

Bravery and a bucket for the screws required to service latest idiot visor

Personal Tech16 Oct 2023 | 10

If you're brave enough to move fully-laden datacenter racks, here's the robot for you

Open Compute Partner with a material handling pedigree appears to be doing it for Meta already

On-Prem16 Oct 2023 | 30

A $353M question: Did Meta muzzle a VR venture?

Quest for control as AEI alleges Meta's monopolistic missteps

Personal Tech12 Oct 2023 | 7

Meta watchdog sticks a probe into Facebook rules after fake Biden vid allowed to stay

Doctored video featured vile false slur, but it wasn't a deepfake ... so that's OK, then?

AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 7

Trio of TorchServe flaws means PyTorch users need an urgent upgrade

Meta, the project's maintainer, shrugs: We fixed it, let's move on

Security04 Oct 2023 | 2

X Social Media sues Twitter 2.0 over alphabet soup branding

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Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 32

Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe

But Meta was just about to start asking people for their permission!

Security29 Sep 2023 | 24

Zuck dives deeper into the metaverse, dragging Snoop Dogg along for ride

Meta's annual conference sees the company playing catch-up to OpenAI but pulling ahead of Apple

Offbeat28 Sep 2023 | 13

Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices

Biz signed 20-year term in 2021 before COVID-19 caused the WFH revolution followed by redundancies

On-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 41

Zuck uses India visit to increase Meta's transactional traction

WhatsApp gets better at taking money and so does Meta with verified accounts for biz

Software21 Sep 2023 |

Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone

Column Personal AI can redefine the handheld experience and perhaps preserve privacy too

Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 65

If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea

Updated You're just giving manufacturers carte blanche to profit off personal data

Security07 Sep 2023 | 133

Norway court upholds miniscule fine against Meta for flouting privacy rules

Targeted ads require data usage consent under EU regulations

Personal Tech07 Sep 2023 | 33

How to ask Facebook's Meta to not train its AI models on some of your personal info

Hey, stop Zucking up my data!

AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 38

Meta reckons China's troll farms could learn proper OpSec from Russia's fake news crews

Claims to have taken down two colossal networks, with 'Secondary Infektion' schooling 'Spamouflage'

Security30 Aug 2023 | 15

Meta lets Code Llama run riot under almost-open terms

Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something?

AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 4

Cool, more promises of a Universal Translator from Big Tech. This time, Meta – again

SeamlessM4T seems less open source than some might wish

AI + ML23 Aug 2023 | 4

Google 'wiretapped' tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims

And this wiretap, is it in the room with us right now?

Personal Tech18 Aug 2023 | 54

Meta to use work badge and Status Tool to snoop on staff

Not in office three days a week? Repeated 'violations' could lead to termination

On-Prem18 Aug 2023 | 42

Norway to hit Meta with fines over Facebook user privacy from next week

Book to hit face, but Zuckerberg & co tell El Reg it will challenge the ban

Personal Tech08 Aug 2023 | 19

We'd pay good money to see... oh dear, Elon Musk 'needs an MRI scan'

Opinion What does this mean for his cage fight against Zuck? YOU DECIDE

Offbeat07 Aug 2023 | 62

Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now

AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe

AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 43