Chris Hughes

It's 2023, let's check in with the metaverse... Nope, still doesn't exist

You might catch a whiff of it in Slack or Teams next year, but otherwise normal human life goes on

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 71

Meta wants to sweat its servers for longer – at a cost of $60b

Even as the ad market chills and share price slumps

Systems27 Oct 2022 | 14

Meta met a programming language it likes better than Java

Goggles giant on how it gave its Android apps a Kotlin makeover

Software25 Oct 2022 | 16

What's up with WhatsApp? Messaging platform suffers outage in the UK

Updated Massive spike in user reports on DownDetector, no word on cause

Off-Prem25 Oct 2022 | 28

Shareholders slam Zuckerberg's 'terrifying' $100b+ Metaverse experiment

Start with dumping a fifth of staff, capping that VR capex, firm urges

Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 35

Most Metaverse business projects will be dead by 2025

Canalys Channels Forum McKinsey forecasts market value of $5 trillion by 2030, Citi says up to $13 trillion, but Canalys doesn't agree

Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 76

Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3 million patients' info

Scream with us: Aaaaaa-AAH

CSO20 Oct 2022 | 35

Meta gives up fight to get $400m Giphy buy approved

Facebook to dump GIF super-gallery after just enough pestering from UK

Personal Tech18 Oct 2022 | 14

Meta mad as hell over allegations it let Indian politicians block content

Local outlet claims to have insider docs that prove takedown powers. Meta says they're fake. And around and around they go

Legal17 Oct 2022 | 8

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Comment Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 92

Microsoft and Meta promise facehugger PCs piping cloud desktops into VR headsets

Poll Who exactly asked for this? Can you explain how it works? Or why?

Personal Tech12 Oct 2022 | 39

Don't mind Facebook, just putting its own browser in its Android app

Analysis Totally not for data collection

Software04 Oct 2022 | 45

Tencent has its Meta moment as CEO Pony Ma outlines 'immersive convergence'

Video confs to add multi-sensory interaction and by 2040 maybe even brain/machine interfaces

Software29 Sep 2022 | 5

Meta busts first Chinese campaign prodding US midterms

Russian cybercriminals were also caught targeting Europe with anti-Ukraine messages

Cyber-crime27 Sep 2022 | 8

Meta told to pay $175m to walkie-talkie techies for infringing IP

Facebook and Instagram Live use same programming described in Voxer patents, says jury

Legal22 Sep 2022 | 22

Meta, Google learn the art of the quiet layoff

You're not being fired, we're just unable to facilitate your sustained employment

Bootnotes21 Sep 2022 | 85

Meta, Twitter, Apple, Google urged to up encryption game in post-Roe America

Tech giants 'throwing their users to the wolves'

Security20 Sep 2022 | 14

Anti-Metaverse package 'explosion' at college VR lab probed by investigators

Blast, manifesto railing against Zuck and AI may be an artifical reality

Bootnotes14 Sep 2022 | 21

Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea

Both search giant and Facebook parent claim they play by the rules, will challenge decision

Security14 Sep 2022 | 4

Meta's next-gen Oculus headset kit left in a hotel room

Video Nothing to see here, unless it's Second Life Version 2 you're after

Personal Tech12 Sep 2022 | 17

Meta disbands Responsible Innovation team, spreads it out over Facebook and co

Still unclear: Were members just screaming into a void for the past few years?

Security09 Sep 2022 | 20

Meta found guilty of flouting Washington political ad laws – again

Hundreds of 'intentional' violations could cost Zuck and Co $30k each

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 8

Instagram fined in Ireland for violating children's privacy

Meta set to the appeal the data protection authority's near $400m penalty

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 7

Meta hedges bets on metaverse silicon with Qualcomm VR deal

More silicon sales for us says Qualcomm

Personal Tech02 Sep 2022 | 5

Meta picks India for WhatsApp's first e-commerce service

Indian residents will be able to buy their groceries through the chat app – for as long as the government is happy with the idea

Personal Tech30 Aug 2022 | 7

Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount

Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta

Legal29 Aug 2022 | 31

Twitter, Meta kill hundreds of pro-Western troll accounts

It turns out online chicanery aiming to destabilize foreign nations is a two-way street

Research25 Aug 2022 | 38

Meta offers $37.5m to settle location tracking lawsuit

Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit

Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 26

China's tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute

COMMENT Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept

Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 3

Novant Health admits leak of 1.3m patients' info to Facebook

But don't worry, Zuck would never misuse this type of sensitive data

Security22 Aug 2022 | 12

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

Opinion No country for old menus

Columnists22 Aug 2022 | 105

Zoom patches make-me-root security flaw, patches patch

In brief Plus: See if in-app browsers are monitoring you, a novel industrial network attack technique, and more

Security22 Aug 2022 | 21

Vietnam demands Big Tech localize data storage and offices

Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have a year to comply

Legal19 Aug 2022 | 5

That was fast: MetaGuard emerges as an 'incognito mode' for the metaverse

As if the VR giants will let that stand – worth a try, though

Personal Tech18 Aug 2022 | 25

Meta's AI internet chatbot demo quickly starts spewing fake news and racist remarks

In brief Plus: How Google is using language models to improve search, and watch Heinz's AI ketchup advert

AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 50

Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites

Company insists it's doing so 'to honor people’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) choices'

Personal Tech12 Aug 2022 | 25

Meta privacy red team lead: Does your business know its privacy adversaries?

Black Hat Video Ethical hackers, but for privacy programs

Security11 Aug 2022 | 4

Facebook hands over chats to cops in abortion case

'If your business model depends on more aggressive surveillance, maybe you need a new business model'

Personal Tech10 Aug 2022 | 96

You'll soon be able to ghost a WhatsApp group without making everyone hate you

Well, until they find out that you've left, but at least they won't be immediately notified of your every move

Offbeat10 Aug 2022 | 25

WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat

'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that'

Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 52

Surprise! The metaverse is going to suck for privacy

Forget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data

Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 57

Meta pours cash into servers and AI as ad revenue falls

Plus: Apple's iOS privacy changes 'weren't a factor' in Q2

Systems28 Jul 2022 | 8

Now another Meta acquisition in jeopardy: VR biz Within

And on the same day revenue declined, web ad spend uncertain, hiring slowed, more AI curation promised

AI + ML28 Jul 2022 | 14

Meta approves four programming languages for workers and developers

Rust never sleeps and is henceforth welcome for backend services and CLI tools

Software27 Jul 2022 | 17

Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds

Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg?

Off-Prem26 Jul 2022 | 115

South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs

Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese

Legal25 Jul 2022 |

After 40 years in tech, I see every innovation contains its dark opposite

Column From modems to the Metaverse, Mark Pesce has seen it all

Software20 Jul 2022 | 138

Meta's Giphy buy could be back on after watchdog agrees to reboot investigation

We'll be back in jiffy

Personal Tech19 Jul 2022 | 8

Meta asks line managers to identify poorly performing staff for firing

Zuckerberg makes good on headcount threats he issued last month

On-Prem12 Jul 2022 | 45

Meta's AI-based Wikipedia successor 'may be the next big break in NLP'

Don't believe everything you read on the internet

AI + ML11 Jul 2022 | 21

Meta accuses data scrapers of taking more than their share

It's not that Facebook doesn't allow harvesting, it's more that it wasn't authorized, allegedly

Legal07 Jul 2022 | 14

Meta's AI translation breaks 200 language barrier

Open source model improves translation of rarer spoken languages by 70%

AI + ML06 Jul 2022 | 6

Pentagon: We'll pay you if you can find a way to hack us

DoD puts money behind bug bounty program after reward-free pilot

Research05 Jul 2022 | 18

Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat

Comment And 30% fewer new engineers this year

AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 30

A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'

Nausea, eye strain, inability to take notes, migraines are just a few of Metaverse work 'perks'

Offbeat22 Jun 2022 | 68

Meta now involved in making metalevel standards for the metaverse

So are Microsoft, Adobe, W3C, Huawei, and… IKEA? Not Apple, though

Personal Tech22 Jun 2022 | 17