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Nearly 200,000 workers have been affected by tech layoffs in 2026. See which companies are cutting jobs and what it means for tech workers.
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Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley AI glasses are now available in Malaysia. Compare four models, their prices, features, and prescription compatibility.
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Meta must pay $25 billion to New Mexico after a jury found the tech giant guilty of nearly 44 million violations of state consumer protection laws.
The largest fine to ever hit Meta came after New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez declined to join an $18 billion settlement Meta reached earlier this year with attorneys general in nearly all states.
In his opinion Wednesday, US district court judge Francis J. Mathew said there was no “bright line rule” for determining the appropriate penalty for Meta's repeated and willful deception of users since 2010 about their “control of data, third-party data misuse, misinformation, hate speech, and equal enforcement.”
Australia is preparing legal action against Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Google over alleged breaches of its under-16 social media ban. Here's what could happen next.
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Hoping to quell criticism, Meta has dropped the word “train” from its “streamlined” commercial terms of service that kick in on October 30.
Last week, Meta faced backlash after legal experts warned that the tech giant’s sweeping new commercial terms of service seemed to give Meta permission to endlessly scrape websites linked on business pages. Talking to Nieman Lab, experts suggested that Meta could possibly use the policy to avoid millions in licensing fees from news organizations by requiring all business users to share a wealth of AI training data simply for running a business page.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed that Meta did not alert users to the changed language following backlash. This potentially only adds to confusion ahead of the policy rollout. In response to backlash, Meta's spokesperson provided a statement to Ars, acknowledging Nieman Lab's initial report but not its follow-up report reiterating experts' concerns:
In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive and LibGen, TorrentFreak reported.
In a discovery order impacting a class action raised by book authors—including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman—as well as a lawsuit from publisher Entrepreneur Media, Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixon largely agreed that Meta must clearly identify key decision-makers. Following testimony from Meta staff who downloaded torrents, the order could expose a wider range of supervisors, managers, and executives whom staffers said greenlit the piracy.
Meta had been hoping to avoid detailing the chain of command, particularly for leadership involved in early AI training. According to a Meta court filing, its initial efforts to compile massive AI datasets were managed through an “informal approach" where supposedly nobody with authority made any decisions. Instead, Meta insisted that a “decision” was “made only in the sense” that some staffers “technically” downloaded torrents.
Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through web links, researchers reported Monday. In response to questions from Ars about the behavior, Meta said it's suspending the sharing feature while the company reviews it and considers making changes.
Like many online services, Muse has allowed users to share searches, conversations, images, and similar content with other people. Such share features usually involve clicking an option to create a unique URL that anyone can use to load a page hosting the content. To keep potentially sensitive information from being accessible to unintended people, the URLs typically contain a long sequence of text that can’t be easily guessed.
Muse, which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month was “built from the ground up for privacy and security,” seems to take the same precautions. But a central design decision for constructing URLs has made the links easy to discover. As a result, researchers from security firm Claroc said they were able to enumerate 6,800 links Muse users created for sharing conversations with others. After opening a few hundred of them, the researchers found information that was clearly not intended to be publicly available, including:
Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were recording people’s conversations without the wearer knowing. The recordings occurred without users saying the prompt phrase (“Hey, Meta”), in a bug that Meta says has been fixed.
This week, some users reported online that their Ray-Ban Metas were recording without their consent. A person going by Kindly-Audience-137 on Reddit, for example, said this happened to them across three Meta Ray-Bans and that they had the “Respond without Hey Meta” setting turned off. The person said the Meta AI app “saves audio recordings and text transcripts of these conversations in my conversation history.”
“I believe this deserves a serious technical investigation. Customers should not have to wonder whether their private conversations are being captured when they have not intentionally activated their glasses’ AI assistant,” the Reddit user said.
Legal experts are sounding alarms that Meta will soon update its commercial terms to require business accounts to allow Meta to train AI on their linked website content, not just their social media posts.
Kicking in on October 30, the TOS update won’t allow businesses to opt out, instead suggesting that businesses stop using Meta services if they won’t agree to let Meta bots freely crawl their linked content.
As Nieman Lab reported Thursday, this will affect all business accounts but is particularly shocking for news publishers who could perhaps charge Meta millions in licensing fees to continually access their articles for AI training. Currently news organizations are fighting a battle with OpenAI over whether such training without licensing is fair use, and Meta's terms seemingly risk granting it sweeping permissions, no matter which way the court leans.
Meta's Muse Spark Open targets developers with powerful open-weight AI, Apple silicon support, and new deployment options. Here's what IT teams should know.
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Facebook is rolling out AI controls for Feed and Reels. Learn how ‘Your Algorithm’ lets you shape recommendations and what users should expect from the tools.
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WhatsApp is testing scheduled messages for Android beta users, allowing texts and media to be delivered later even when the sender's phone is offline.
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Ofcom has opened a formal probe into whether Meta properly assessed safety risks before launching Instagram Instants under the UK Online Safety Act.
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Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom's demands for detailed moderation data under the UK's Online Safety Act in a London court.
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Apple a annoncé de nouveaux contrôles autour de l'accès complet au disque sur macOS. L'entreprise estime que certains développeurs détournent cette autorisation et que l'essor des agents IA rend le risque plus pressant.
Cette semaine, il est question de poils et de vitesse dans le récap pop culture hebdomadaire de Numerama. Du côté de CD Projekt Red, on vous conseille de désactiver l'option Nvidia HairWorks dans la version Remastered de The Witcher 3. La saison 3 de Mercredi, quant à elle, a déjà terminé son tournage pour une sortie prévue à l’automne 2027. Et du côté de la communauté des speedrunners, il existe désormais un moyen de contourner un boss de Metal Gear Solid 2. On n’a plus le temps, que voulez-vous.
Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories.
Friday's announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages. Aten said he never granted Muse permissions to read his messages and had assumed they were off-limits. Social media last week blew up with masses of people who agreed and said the incident showed that AI assistants given access to calendars, emails, messages, shopping accounts, and other resources are akin to a skill saw or other power tool. While potentially useful, they can do real damage if not used carefully.
Meta CTO David Singleton joined the fray with a rebuttal that appeared solid. For Muse to access Apple Messages, a user must manually give it two privileges. One is full-disk access, a macOS system-level permission. The other is to enable a Messages connector setting in Muse.
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Meta is adding an AI assistant to Instagram Edits that analyzes Reel performance data and suggests new content ideas, hooks, captions and scripts.
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Metaview raised $60 million to expand its AI recruiting platform and autonomous agent fillmore across sourcing, screening and hiring workflows.
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Meta’s Muse AI shared a Facebook Marketplace seller’s pickup address and arranged a deal that ended with a buyer showing up unexpectedly.
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Grosse découverte pour les speedrunners de Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, qui tentent de finir le jeu le plus vite possible. Le speedrunner apel a trouvé une faille qui permet d'éviter Olga, le tout premier boss du jeu. En 25 ans, personne n'avait réussi à sauter un combat de boss dans Metal Gear Solid 2.
Meta launches Enterprise Platform, bringing Muse, Business Agent and AI tools to companies as it takes on Microsoft and Salesforce.
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Apple Vision Pro costs $3,499, while Meta VR Glasses will cost $1,299.99. Compare price, comfort, displays, work, gaming, and availability.
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Cette semaine, Meta a organisé sa grande conférence Meta Connect. L'entreprise de Mark Zuckerberg a dévoilé des lunettes de réalité virtuelles, des nouvelles lunettes Ray-Ban et des nouveautés pour son intelligence artificielle Muse, dont un petit objet pour lui parler sans sortir son téléphone. De son côté, Google a lancé sa réponse aux PC et aux Mac : les Googlebook, qui fusionnent Android et ChromeOS.
Compare Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 and Nuance Audio Plus on hearing support, microphones, battery, price, and smart features to see which fits your needs.
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