Chris Hughes

Consultant plays Metaverse MythBuster. Here's why they're wrong

Opinion Holograms, brands, NFTs, and a 1,000-consumer survey

Offbeat16 Jun 2022 | 83

Meta mostly fails in appeal against order from UK watchdog to sell Giphy

Might have been a good idea to mention that Snap was sniffing around GIF biz, too, judges note, though

Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 9

Tech hiring freeze doesn't mean people won't leave

Comment Work culture is irrevocably changed. Businesses that don't see that are in for a rough ride

Bootnotes02 Jun 2022 | 65

UK monopoly watchdog investigates Google's online advertising business

Another probe? Mountain View is starting to look like a pincushion at this rate

Legal27 May 2022 | 11

Despite 'key' partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work

Someone got Zuck'd

PaaS + IaaS25 May 2022 | 4

Facebook opens political ad data vaults to researchers

Social network builds FORT to protect against onslaught of regulation, investigation

Security24 May 2022 |

Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses

How to make a free messaging platform bought for $22 billion profitable

Applications20 May 2022 | 30

Meta hires network chip guru from Intel: What does this mean for future silicon?

Analysis Why be a customer when you can develop your own custom semiconductors

Networks16 May 2022 | 1

Uber, Meta to reduce hiring as stocks slide

Is winter coming already for the US tech sector?

Personal Tech10 May 2022 | 15

Meta releases code for massive language model to AI researchers

Now they can experiment with the algorithms even if they don't have hundreds of GPUs

AI + ML04 May 2022 | 2

Facebook's Meta, tracking code, and the student financial aid website

Also: Oculus virtual reality apps fail to detail info collection

Research30 Apr 2022 | 15

Meta materials: Facebook using AI to design green concrete

Claims new formula reduced carbon emissions by 40%, exceeded strength requirements

AI + ML29 Apr 2022 | 18

Meta physical: Facebook parent to open its first real-world store

To truly understand virtual reality, first you need to go outside, interact with actual people...

Personal Tech26 Apr 2022 | 5

EU eyes tech giant revenues as Digital Services Act clears hurdles

Fines worth 6 percent of annual turnover survived draft in provisional agreement

Legal25 Apr 2022 | 4

Putin reaches for nuclear option: Zuckerberg banned

In Soviet Russia, bear pokes you

Bootnotes22 Apr 2022 | 61

Meta strikes blow against 30% 'App Store tax' by charging 47.5% Metaverse toll

Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price

Personal Tech13 Apr 2022 | 46

Zuckerberg gets $26m in 'other' Meta compensation

Personal security, private travel, for exec making a single 'Zuck Buck'

Offbeat12 Apr 2022 | 31

Russia (still) trying to weaponize Facebook for spying, Ukraine-war disinfo

Plus: More financially motivated miscreants try to monetize invasion

Security07 Apr 2022 | 15

The metaverse of fantasy worlds is itself still a fantasy

If your boss is bugging you about this tech, here's how to respond

Personal Tech04 Apr 2022 | 47

Crooks use fake emergency data requests to get personal info out of Big Tech – report

In Brief Plus: Hive hits health-care org, law enforcement ransomware response is lacking, and orgs can't meet new disclosure rules

Security02 Apr 2022 | 20

Meta accused of hiring Republican consultancy to seed anti-TikTok rumors

Slap-a-teacher and smash-the-school crazes were carefully engineered smears, it is claimed

Personal Tech31 Mar 2022 | 24

Meta sued for 'aiding and abetting' crypto scammers

Watchdog claims Facebook parent sat on its hands as fake ads fleeced netizens

Personal Tech18 Mar 2022 | 51

Ireland: Meta fined $18.6m for breaking EU's GDPR

Data protection watchdog imposes fine on half-trillion dollar valued Facebook firm

Legal16 Mar 2022 | 9

Russia labels Meta an 'extremist' organization, bans Instagram

As Ukraine calls for big tech to end support for its products in Russia

Security14 Mar 2022 | 49

UK, EU regulators probe Google and Meta's 'Jedi Blue' ad deal

Watchdog: We're 'concerned' they 'teamed up ... to put obstacles in the way of competitors'

Legal11 Mar 2022 | 12

WhatsApp emits extension to detect tampering with desktop web apps

Code Verify tool confers with Cloudflare to warn of any shenanigans

Security10 Mar 2022 | 13

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is still pushing metaverse. Next step, language translation

He probably knows a thing or two about nobody understanding him

AI + ML24 Feb 2022 | 50

AI-created faces now look so real, humans can't spot the difference

The uncanny valley has become shallow and short

AI + ML21 Feb 2022 | 62

Facebook is one bad Chrome extension away from another Cambridge Analytica scandal

Analysis Meta says it's on top of access token abuse but also needs Google's help

Security17 Feb 2022 | 43

Insurance claims up 31% thanks to the metaverse

I'm gaming like a wrecking ball

Bootnotes14 Feb 2022 | 20

This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars

Removing characters' hands evidently not enough to halt harassment

Personal Tech05 Feb 2022 | 123

Grab some tissues: Meta's share price tanks after Facebook emits latest figures

Blame it on the metaverse, Apple, TikTok, inflation, and higher data charges in India

Off-Prem03 Feb 2022 | 71

Carked it, Diem? Zuckerberg's grand cryptocurrency thing may sell off assets for $200m

Facebook-born blockchain payment system's day well and truly seized

Bootnotes27 Jan 2022 | 21

Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips

Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else

AI + ML25 Jan 2022 | 21

Meta trains data2vec neural network to grok speech, images, text so it can 'understand the world'

Whatever it takes, Mark

AI + ML21 Jan 2022 | 32

US watchdog pokes Facebook a second time: Meta faces fresh monopoly lawsuit

If at first you don't succeed, you're probably the FTC

Personal Tech12 Jan 2022 | 9

Facebook files challenge to UK Giphy buyout ban by complaining CMA was 'unfair' and 'irrational'

They really want that display ad and user tracking service

Legal05 Jan 2022 | 14

Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard

But still allows limited harvesting

Security16 Dec 2021 | 6

South Korea sets site reliability engineering standards for Big Tech

Wants Google, Meta, Netflix and locals to work harder on uptime, warn locals of outages in Korean

Off-Prem08 Dec 2021 | 5

Facebook slapped with an eyepopping $150B lawsuit for spreading hate speech against Rohingya refugees

Lawsuit claims social media giant's algos helped Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya

Personal Tech07 Dec 2021 | 24

Specs appeal: Qualcomm and Meta insist headgear to plug you into the metaverse will 'supersede mobile'

Snapdragon Tech Summit 'You're on the go, you take it with you, it's always contextually relevant, you don't have to take it out of your pocket'

Personal Tech02 Dec 2021 | 16

Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS

The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch

Off-Prem02 Dec 2021 |

UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase

CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend

Legal30 Nov 2021 | 27

'We are not people to Mark Zuckerberg, we are the product' rages Ohio's Attorney General in Facebook lawsuit

Britain's former deputy prime minister among execs sued on behalf of pension fund, other investors

Personal Tech17 Nov 2021 | 27

Chip makers aren't all-in on metaverse hardware yet – we should know, we asked them

Nvidia, though, expects this virtual-reality world to be as vast as the internet

Personal Tech05 Nov 2021 | 25

Did you know there is an Oculus for Business? Make that 'was' – because Facebook has canned it after two years

Now it's Quest for Business. Don't all rush at once

Networks29 Oct 2021 | 9

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

Comment His social network has Meta-stasized

Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 226