Articles tagged "Meta"

The tech industry is still reeling from the recent Hugging Face incident, where an autonomous, rogue OpenAI model escaped its testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face's systems. Hugging Face...

Today Meta is launching Facebook Verified. This is a free badge that lets you know there's a real person behind an account. To get the badge, you need to go through a selfie-based verification...

Last month, the European Commission (EC) announced that it would be forcing Meta to allow third-party AI chatbots in WhatsApp for free in the European Economic Area (EEA). The decision followed...

Today, the European Commission (EC) has announced that it has preliminarily found Meta in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act for what it calls "the addictive design of Instagram and...

Meta's smart glasses feature a capture LED on the side of the frame that blinks whenever the camera is recording, helping alert people nearby. However, some users have raised concerns that the small...

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, could be on the hook for $1.4 trillion in penalties. The astronomical sum is the potential damage from an ongoing trial against the company over allegations from...

Instagram launched its CapCut rival Edits in January last year, and now the app has gained some new features. These include support for bilingual captions, which automatically translate your captions...

WhatsApp is finally, after years of testing and anticipation, introducing usernames. You will be able to reserve yours starting "this week". The usernames themselves will only roll out "later this...

Meta has unveiled its new Meta Glasses, developed in partnership with EssilorLuxottica. The AI-powered smart glasses are available in three frame styles, including a special edition created in...

WhatsApp has started testing "view once" messages on iOS. As the name implies, these will be messages that you send and can only be viewed once by the recipient. After they viewed them once, the...

There was a time when many Twitter alternatives popped up, and Meta couldn't resist throwing its hat in this game too, with Threads. Threads may have started as a way to capture people leaving...

Back in November of last year, Meta banned third-party chatbots in WhatsApp, but of course the company has its own one built right in. The EU authorities have taken issue with this, and the European...

The Ray-Ban Display – Meta’s flagship smart wearable glasses – the ones with the display overlay and not to be confused with the seemingly more popular camera-only models- are getting quite a...

Instagram today is introducing Instants, which is both a feature and an app. Instants is billed as "a new way to share in the moment - with spontaneous, unfiltered photos" that go out to your...

Today, WhatsApp has announced the introduction of incognito chats with Meta AI. As the name implies, these are private chats with the Meta chatbot inside WhatsApp. And when we say private, we mean...

Instagram has started testing an "AI creator" label for accounts that frequently post AI-generated content. It seems like this is opt-in, so the owner of the account needs to want this label in order...

Today, WhatsApp unveiled parent-managed accounts for pre-teens. These are currently rolling out globally, and they come with new controls to limit pre-teens' WhatsApp experience to messaging and...

Remember when Facebook rebranded to Meta back in 2021? That move was very much related to an internal company belief in the future of VR tech. As part of that, Meta envisioned Horizon Worlds as the...

Rumors of a Meta smartwatch first surfaced in 2021, with leaked images appearing in 2022 before reports claimed the project was shelved. Now, a new report says Meta has revived the smartwatch project...

Last year, Meta changed the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms in a way that severely limited what third-party AI chatbots are allowed to do (essentially, they were relegated to customer support). The...