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
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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
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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
'Thousands' at Meta face layoffs this week
Sorry, you're Zucked
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 26
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
