Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains
DIY store didn't get 'valid consent,' says Canada's regulator
Personal Tech27 Jan 2023 | 61
Meta
Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky
Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics
Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
Microsoft’s mixed reality dream meets harsh reality of job cuts
Updated Just so, so much enthusiasm for Second Life 2.0 right now
Personal Tech24 Jan 2023 | 5
Ireland’s privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp €5.5 million
You’ve got 6 months to get into compliance, it tells yak-yak app
Security20 Jan 2023 | 5
Long data privacy notices aren't foolproof, Euro watchdog tells Meta
As Meta reels from €390 million EU fine, the 'personalized ads' case might not be over, Max Schrem’s legal group says
Security13 Jan 2023 | 4
VALL-E AI can mimic a person’s voice from a three-second snippet
Are you really saying what I’m hearing?
Security12 Jan 2023 | 17
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Meta develops AI targeting system to show housing ads to wider range of users
Part of a settlement with US Department of Justice after ads discrimination case
AI + ML11 Jan 2023 | 7
US schools sue Meta, Google and friends over 'youth mental health crisis'
Updated Social media as public nuisance? Seattle may be on to something
Personal Tech10 Jan 2023 | 50
Ireland fines Meta $414m for using personal data without asking
Updated Facebook, Insta told to pay up, make changes to data slurping process within 3 months
Security04 Jan 2023 | 25
Back to work, Linux admins: You may have a CVSS 10 kernel bug to address
In brief Also, script kiddies are coming for your gift cards, and Meta's Cambridge Analytica pathetic payout
Security24 Dec 2022 | 23
Paperwork decision scraps Google's $600m Minnesota datacenter project
We don't have the power
Off-Prem22 Dec 2022 | 6
By 2026, total AR/VR goggle sales will trail a single quarter of current tablet shipments
But will be bigger than gaming consoles, so maybe this metaverse thing has legs
Personal Tech22 Dec 2022 | 26
Meta freezes development of $1.5B Alabama datacenter pending redesign
More AI is the answer to all our woes, Meta CTO says
Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 5
Latest antitrust problem the EU has with Meta? It's classified
Believes Facebook Marketplace broke EU rules by 'distorting competition' for online ads
Personal Tech19 Dec 2022 | 8
Carmack quits Meta, brands it inefficient and unprepared for competition
Is Zuck's org doomed, or is this a case of a techie struggling with management?
Personal Tech19 Dec 2022 | 22
Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure
Cancelled bit barns the latest casualties following mass layoffs last month
Off-Prem16 Dec 2022 | 14
Microsoft Teams: A vector for child sexual abuse material with a two-day processing time for complaints
Redmond and Cupertino criticized for slow and weak responses by Australian regulator
Security16 Dec 2022 | 17
Meta, Google, TikTok and friends sue California to block kids privacy law
Free speech? Or 'roving internet censors'
Personal Tech16 Dec 2022 | 14
Using personal info for ads without consent puts Meta in EU's gunsights
Schrems strikes again
Personal Tech08 Dec 2022 | 29
Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan
Good luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia?
Legal06 Dec 2022 | 72
Meta fined $275m after data-scraping fiasco leaked 533m Facebook users' profiles
Irish eyes aren't smiling
Personal Tech28 Nov 2022 | 27
Meta scores $200k default win against alleged peddler of Instagram Likes
Manipulating users' feelings on a social media platform? That's our job!
Legal28 Nov 2022 | 3
Quest VR glasses back on sale in Germany – but watchdog has eye on Meta
Goggles unhooked from Facebook login, but officials still watching for antitrust abuse
Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 15
Meta links US military to fake social media influence campaigns
Didn't say they were good, though – covert ops apparently got 'little to no engagement' from targets
Research24 Nov 2022 | 20
Meta faces lawsuit to stop 'surveillance advertising'
Case claims collecting personal data breaches UK GDPR, but implications could be wider
Applications23 Nov 2022 | 22
Meta's Cicero chatbot can probably beat you at Diplomacy
AI agent proves better than most people in classic game of trust and betrayal
AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 13
Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce
Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand
Personal Tech09 Nov 2022 | 87
Twitter layoffs were bad but Meta's mass ejections could take the cake
Just in time for the holidays, a bunch of firing talk to worry Facebook crew
Personal Tech07 Nov 2022 | 34
A next-gen AI protein folder that could help science? Meta's good for something
Faster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 11
Meta thirsts for desert conditions in datacenter water quest
Finally testing out the honesty of that one engineer who always says: 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity'
On-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 13
Open source's totally non-secret weapon big tech dares not use: Staying relevant
Opinion Detachment from users' lived reality is how corporates shoot themselves in the foot
Software31 Oct 2022 | 79
Meta fined record-breaking $24.6m for deliberately ignoring political ad law
Pocket change for troubled Facebook giant, plus more US election news
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 30
Macs still growing as Apple sidesteps dark clouds over big tech
Ducks Zuck's bad luck as fanbois chuck bucks at M2 SoC... but CFO warns it's unlikely to last
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 3
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 | 75
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 | 87
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 | 27
China's tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute
COMMENT Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept
Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 3
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