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Instagram and Facebook cross messaging is coming to an end - The Verge
www.theverge.com Instagram and Facebook cross messaging is coming to an endA little over three years after the service first launched.
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Meta thinks app stores should control online age verification - The Verge
www.theverge.com Meta doesn’t want to control how teens use the internet — it wants to make app stores do itMeta says existing age verification methods are inconsistent.
- www.reuters.com Meta appeals against EU gatekeeper status for Messenger, Marketplace
Meta on Wednesday appealed against "gatekeeper" designations for its Messenger and Marketplace platforms, the first Big Tech company to challenge new European Union rules setting out dos and don'ts for the online services.
- www.bleepingcomputer.com Meta faces EU ban on Facebook, Instagram targeted advertising
The European Data Protection Board has extended the temporary ban on targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram, imposed by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) in July.
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Meta is investigating Quest 3 controllers amid tracking complaints - The Verge
www.theverge.com Meta is investigating Quest 3 issues after controller tracking complaintsImprovements are expected in “upcoming releases”
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Meta’s AI research head wants open source licensing to change - The Verge
www.theverge.com Meta’s AI research head wants open source licensing to changeMeta believes openly sharing research will push the technology forward.
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Meta announces paid ad-free tiers for Facebook and Instagram - GSMArena.com news
www.gsmarena.com Meta announces paid ad-free tiers for Facebook and InstagramThe ad-supported experience will still be available for users on both platforms. There’s an old saying “if you're not paying for the product, then you’re...
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Android Developers Blog: Meta built threads in only 5 months using Jetpack Compose
android-developers.googleblog.com Meta built threads in only 5 months using Jetpack ComposeNews and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Meta wants Threads to be the ‘de facto platform’ for online public conversations - The Verge
www.theverge.com Meta wants Threads to be the “de facto platform” for online public conversationsThreads already has nearly 100 million monthly active users.
- arstechnica.com It’s a “fake PR stunt”: Artists hate Meta’s AI data deletion process
There's no way to opt out, leading artists to believe Meta's system is badly broken.
- investor.fb.com Meta Reports Third Quarter 2023 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2023. "We had a good quarter for our community and business," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "I'm proud of the work our teams have done to advance AI and mixed reality with the ...
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Dozens of states sue Meta over youth mental health crisis - The Verge
www.theverge.com Dozens of states sue Meta over youth mental health crisisThey accuse the company of putting profit ahead of safety.
- www.androidcentral.com Meta Quest 3 Lite: Rumors, specs, and what we want to see
The $200 virtual reality headset is getting more real.
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Meta now lets you block Instagram from collecting your data - SamMobile
www.sammobile.com You can now block Facebook and Instagram from collecting your dataMeta has added a new feature that allows Instagram users from blocking apps and websites from collecting personal data.
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Meta negotiations with moderators in Kenya over labor dispute collapse
techcrunch.com Meta negotiations with moderators in Kenya over labor dispute collapse | TechCrunchThe court was briefed on the outcome of the mediation today, coming after it allowed the parties to settle the case out of court in August.
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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses review: Keep your phone in your pocket - Android Central
www.androidcentral.com Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses review: Keep your phone in your pocketThese smart glasses give you a phone's camera, watch's assistant, and earbuds' audio, but they aren't without their issues as an all-in-one tech solution.
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Meta Made Llama 2 AI Model Open-Source Because 'Zuck Has Balls'
www.businessinsider.com Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because 'Zuck has balls,' a former top Facebook engineer saysMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk by making its powerful AI model Llama 2 mostly open source, according to Replit CEO Amjad Masad.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk making the model open-source.
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Meta Quest 3 Teardown: What Are You Sacrificing for Savings? - YouTube
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Meta killed metaverse yoga app due to Apple talks: Lawsuit
fortune.com Meta killed a metaverse yoga app upon learning its developer also talked with Apple, a lawsuit alleges"It was hell working on it," says Andre Elijah, the miffed developer of the AEI Fitness app.
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Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
m.youtube.com Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta.Thank you for listening ❤ Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get fr...
I found this quite eerie with those virtual avatars.
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Meta Quest 3 review: almost the one we’ve been waiting for - The Verge
www.theverge.com Meta Quest 3 review: almost the one we’ve been waiting forThree years after the Quest 2, the new headset is a big improvement. But it’s not the mixed reality winner Meta hoped.
- www.reuters.com Exclusive: Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday
Meta is planning to lay off employees on Wednesday in the unit of its metaverse-oriented Reality Labs division focused on creating custom silicon, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Meta’s head of news relations, Campbell Brown, has stepped down - The Verge
www.theverge.com Meta’s head of news relations, Campbell Brown, has stepped downMeta continues to back away from news on its platforms.
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The Meta Quest 3 is sharper, more powerful, and still trying to make mixed reality happen
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Meta Quest 3 Revealed: Meta Connect 2023 Keynote Livestream - YouTube (IGN)
www.youtube.com Meta Quest 3 Revealed: Meta Connect 2023 Keynote LivestreamTune in for the kickoff of what Meta bills as "a two-day virtual event focused on AI and virtual, mixed and augmented realities." As part of the livestream, ...
- mixed-news.com Meta Avatars in Horizon Worlds finally have legs
Avatars in Meta's proto-metaverse Horizon Worlds now have legs. However, the representation is done with limitations.
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Senate AI meeting draws Google, Meta and other tech executives - The Washington Post
Meta opening remarks: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/mark-zuckerbergs-remarks-at-ai-forum/
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Meta’s Horizon Worlds social platform is finally coming to mobile and the web - The Verge
www.theverge.com Meta’s Horizon Worlds social platform is finally coming to mobile and the webHorizon Worlds is coming out of virtual reality.
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SMS is no longer available on Android Facebook Messenger app as early as Sept 28
> As early as September 28, 2023, SMS messages will no longer be available when you update your Messenger app.
Was anybody actually using this?
- securityaffairs.com NodeStealer 2.0 takes over Facebook Business accounts
Researchers spotted a Python variant of the NodeStealer that was designed to take over Facebook business accounts and cryptocurrency wallets.
Researchers spotted a Python variant of the NodeStealer that was designed to take over Facebook business accounts and cryptocurrency wallets.
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The strange, improbable rise of Mark Zuckerberg 3.0 - INSIDER
www.businessinsider.com 'He is in war time': Mark Zuckerberg's desperate, last-ditch attempt to remake himself — and MetaMark Zuckerberg is making a push to rebrand and remake Meta, Facebook, and himself. How he transformed into a profit-chasing, jiu jitsu-fighting CEO.
"Mark Zuckerberg's new persona is a survival response to the most turbulent period in Meta's 20-year history. "He was scared," said someone who's known him for years."
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Meta Connect / Meta Quest 3 Launch Date Confirmed for Sept 27
Nitter link provided. Original URL: https://twitter.com/MetaQuestVR/status/1686421940385337363
- www.businessinsider.com Meta hired consultancy firm Bain & Co. before Mark Zuckerberg's big 'efficiency' push, foreshadowing layoffs and cost-cutting
Bain is one of the 'Big Three' business consultancies, frequently working with the world's largest tech companies.
- www.theverge.com Chronological feeds won’t fix platform polarization, new Meta-backed research suggests
Meta partnered with independent academics to research its political effects on users.
Facebook and Instagram users see wildly different political news in their feeds depending on their political beliefs, but chronological feeds won’t fix the problem with polarization, new research published Thursday suggests.
The findings come from four papers produced through a partnership between Meta and more than a dozen outside academics to research the impact of Facebook and Instagram on user behavior during the 2020 election. The company supplied data from around 208 million US-based active users in aggregate, totaling nearly all of the 231 million Facebook and Instagram users nationwide at the time.
- www.theverge.com Mark Zuckerberg thinks Threads could be Meta’s next social network with 1 billion users
‘I’m highly confident we’re going to be able to pour enough gasoline on this to help it grow,’ he told investors.
>‘I’m highly confident we’re going to be able to pour enough gasoline on this to help it grow,’ the Meta CEO told investors on Wednesday.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has high hopes for Threads, his competitor to the company formerly known as Twitter.
During Meta’s second quarter earnings call with investors on Wednesday, Zuckerberg was asked multiple times about Threads and his expectations for its long-term success. He said it’s a “weird anomaly in the tech industry that there hasn’t been an app like this for text-based convos that has reached 1 billion people,” echoing previous comments he has made both on Threads itself and during a recent interview with the podcaster Lex Fridman.
- www.theverge.com Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon have launched their open-source mapping project
Watch out, Apple and Google.
>Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and the mapping company TomTom have launched an initiative to take on Google Maps and Apple Maps. The four companies formed the Overture Maps Foundation last year with the goal of creating interoperable map products — and now, the group has released its first open map dataset. > >With this data, third-party developers can create global mapping or navigation products of their own, allowing them to go head-to-head with Google Maps and Apple Maps. According to Overture, the release includes over 59 million places of interest, along with data on buildings, transportation networks, and administrative boundaries. > >Overture says the data layers have been formatted so developers can “ingest and use map data in a standard, documented way and will be interoperable.” Developers can then use this information on which to build a mapping app or any service that relies on navigation. The dataset is available on Overture’s website. > >“The Places dataset, in particular, represents a major, previously unavailable open dataset, with the potential to map everything from new businesses big and small to pop-up street markets located anywhere in the world,” Marc Prioleau, Overture’s executive director, says in a statement. “Overture plans to build a broad collaboration that can build and maintain an up-to-date, comprehensive database of POIs [places of interest].” > >First formed last year, the Overture Maps Foundation could threaten Google’s and Apple’s thrones when it comes to mapping. Having the data readily available could make it easier — and far cheaper — for developers to make apps. Right now, developers must pay to access Google Maps’ API, while Apple also charges developers who are making non-native apps.