Meta tells staff to return to office three days a week 'Engineers perform better in person' says Zuckerberg. Hang on, aren't you the defender of the Metaverse? On-Prem02 Jun 2023 | 61
Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny And, ahem, other publishers Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 55
Meta promises UK it won't pilfer rivals' ad data to build Facebook Marketplace Once it knows how to stop, anyway Personal Tech26 May 2023 | 15
Social media may harm kids. US Surgeon General says so That's a warning and not permission, in case you were wondering Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 19
Meta forced to sell Giphy, takes 87% loss in Shutterstock deal Zuck and Co face Brexit bonus Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 8
That Meta GDPR fine is €1.2B. Plus biz must stop sending EU data to US Zuckercorp says the EU-US Data Privacy Framework will pass before its penalties enacted, so why worry? Personal Tech22 May 2023 | 70
Meta facing third fine of 2023 for mishandling EU user data under GDPR This one could set a new record for penalties against US companies doing business on the continent Networks18 May 2023 | 19
Tech companies cut jobs to chase growth, but watch out for those shareholder returns Beancounters underestimate financial and cultural cost of mega redundancy programs On-Prem15 May 2023 | 10
India to send official whassup to WhatsApp after massive spamstorm In a weird way, we can blame this on AI being a better bet than blockchain Security12 May 2023 | 5
Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced? Comment All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 37
Meta CEO doesn't Zuck at Brazilian jiu-jitsu, apparently 'Silent killer' Mark bags himself top medals in tournament Offbeat09 May 2023 | 22
Strike three: FTC says Meta still failing to protect user privacy Deals between Zuckercorp + FTC in 2012 and 2020 are being ignored, so time to get stricter, says commish Security04 May 2023 | 21
Meta does the 'We found baddies and crushed them' thing again – this time for AI Who would have thought crims would try using Facebook to fool people? Security03 May 2023 | 1
International cops urge Meta not to implement secure encryption for all Why? Well, think of the children, of course Security21 Apr 2023 | 40
Facebook puts a price on privacy for US users and it's not enough to buy a cup of coffee Coughs up $725 million to settle class action that covers 244 million users Personal Tech19 Apr 2023 | 16
Meta virtual reality interrupted by financial reality as thousands lose their jobs Zuck's 'Year of Efficiency' starts with saving time not learning coworkers' names in case they're booted Personal Tech19 Apr 2023 | 22
Meta's Zuckerberg paid $27M in 'other' compensation for 2022 The average pay of how many human employees = one humanoid CEO? 91 Offbeat18 Apr 2023 | 27
Of course Facebook will monetize an ad-generating AI Metaverse was plan A, is this plan B or C, or what? AI + ML05 Apr 2023 | 9
Ex-politico turned Meta hype man brands Metaverse 'new heart of computing' Stop sniggering at the back. 'We're going to stick with it', says Nick Clegg. Unlike Disney Offbeat31 Mar 2023 | 42
EU mandated messaging platform love-in is easier said than done: Cambridge boffins Digital Market Act interoperability requirement a social challenge as well as a technical one Security29 Mar 2023 | 56
Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone Beware of Greeks bearing GIFs Security21 Mar 2023 | 26
Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 60
Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts 'We're looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus' – which increasingly means staving off TikTok Software14 Mar 2023 | 14
GPT-4 to launch this week, Microsoft Germany's CTO lets slip In-brief Plus: DuckDuckGo launches its own AI web search chatbot, and more AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 17
Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 28
Once AI can create endless viral videos, good luck switching off social media Column Imagine humans … watching humans …watching TikTok … forever AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 57
LLaMA drama as Meta's mega language model leaks Don't worry... 'The good will outweigh the bad, by at least tenfold. Probably closer to 100x' AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 22
ChatGPT, write a report about database glitches that crashed you today While we're here, what do you think of Zuck announcing a vague catchup plan to build 'AI personas'? Spotlight on Databases28 Feb 2023 | 19
Cause for a LLaMA? Meta reckons its smaller text-emitting AI is better than rivals In brief Plus: Lensa AI app maker sued for wacky app photo collection, Supreme Court debates chatbots AI + ML25 Feb 2023 | 20
Behold Big Tech's mightiest new innovations: Minecraft Crocs, recycled cubicles Thank you, Microsoft and Meta, for firing thousands and then sharing your very finest inventions Offbeat21 Feb 2023 | 17
Meta to add verification to Facebook and Insta under scheme that should avoid Twitter's Musk-stakes Paid accounts will be more prominent than your shouty relatives and get – wait for it – a support line Personal Tech20 Feb 2023 | 40
Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else 'Year of efficiency' includes accounting for more threats toward CEO caused by 'year of efficiency' Offbeat16 Feb 2023 | 33
Meta sees off another logo complaint from blockchain player Dfinity What would possess a nonprofit to go after Mark Zuckerberg's empire? Legal08 Feb 2023 | 7
FTC backs down over Meta's acquisition of VR biz Within Meta said it plans to close deal soon Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 2
Latest Windows 11 build shares desktop real estate with, er, Spotify Third party widgets are on the march in latest Windows Preview, which fixes some Arm64 FAILs too Software03 Feb 2023 | 27
Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping Social ad behemoth insists what it does it okay ... and what others do is not Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 21
Meta trims datacenter build bills by $4 billion with new 'phased' design Zuck declares 2023 the 'year of efficiency' - code for breaking leases and firing thousands Off-Prem02 Feb 2023 | 6
Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps You are the product Personal Tech30 Jan 2023 | 47
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 | 69
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 | 8
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
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