The Social Reckoning trailer gives us our first look at Jeremy Strong as Zuck
The Social Reckoning trailer gives us our first look at Jeremy Strong as Zuck

Over 15 years after David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network premiered in theaters, Sony has released the first trailer for The Social Reckoning ahead of its theatrical release on October 9th. The follow-up takes place 17 years after the events portrayed in the original film and follows a young Facebook engineer who enlists […]

Meta signs its first India data-centre deal, leasing a 168MW AI facility from Reliance
Meta signs its first India data-centre deal, leasing a 168MW AI facility from Reliance

Meta has agreed to lease a 168-megawatt, AI-ready data centre in India from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, its first such facility in the country. Reliance will build the site in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and Meta will lease it with an option to scale, …

WhatsApp ordered to host rival AI assistants for free
WhatsApp ordered to host rival AI assistants for free

Meta has been ordered by the European Commission to restore free WhatsApp access for chatbots made by rival AI providers while the regulator finishes its antitrust investigation. The rare interim measure announced on Tuesday was deemed necessary “to prevent serious and irreparable damage to competition” in the general-purpose AI assistant market. This is only the […]

Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance

The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta’s global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.

Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related
Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased facial recognition system from its smart glasses companion app on Friday, one day after WIRED reported that the software had been quietly embedded in an app installed on more than 50 million phones. The f…

Meta denied face scanning tech on AI smartglasses, and then silently wiped the evidence

Dormant face-recognition code reportedly appeared in Meta’s smart glasses app, then disappeared after scrutiny. That has put Meta’s AI eyewear plans back under the privacy spotlight.

Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds

Meta is planning to use the data shared by other businesses to personalize your feed and its AI responses. In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta explains that it already uses your off-platform activity, like the games you play or your purchases on other websites, to serve you ads. But now it’s expanding the scope […]

Instagram is finally letting everyone reorganize their profile grid
Instagram is finally letting everyone reorganize their profile grid

Nearly a year after it was announced, Instagram says it’s delivering the ability to rearrange the posts in your profile grid. It had been available to some people in test groups, but as of June 8th, it’s rolling out widely via the Android and iPhone mobile apps. Until now, the posts on your Instagram profile […]

WhatsApp says it caught new spyware attacks linked to NSO Group in violation of court order

The messaging giant announced that it disrupted a phishing campaign targeting its users with NSO’s spyware.

Meta is dragging NSO back to court, saying the spyware firm never stopped targeting WhatsApp
Meta is dragging NSO back to court, saying the spyware firm never stopped targeting WhatsApp

Meta thought it had stopped NSO Group. It says the spyware firm did not get the message. The company is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO, the Israeli maker of the Pegasus hacking tool, accusing it of violating a permanent injunction th…