Source: Photo courtesy of WLOX / Nolan Xavier Wells Last week, we reported that Ashlee Cole, a Mississippi judge and mother of one of the so-called friends who accompanied Nolan Wells on the trip Wells would never return from, posted a message on social media to, as she put it, “dispel some rumors” regarding any […]
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Source: NurPhoto / Getty On Tuesday, Meta, the company behind Facebook, unveiled its latest product nobody wants: Muse Image. A massive tech company unveiling an artificial intelligence image generator isn’t surprising these days. What is surprising is how Meta decided to roll out the product. Here’s everything we know about Muse and how you can […]
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In short: Meta will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its 78,865-person workforce), with additional cuts planned for the second half of 2026. The restructuring, which follows earlier rounds that brought Zuckerberg’s total cuts since 2022 to roughly 25,000, is driven by a reallocation toward AI infrastructure costing $115-135 […]
Read MoreIn short: A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing the platform’s security checks, the latest in a series of privacy and security failures to emerge from the company over the past four years. Meta’s internal security systems are designed […]
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A recent investigation by Swedish news outlets Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten has revealed significant privacy breaches involving Meta’s smart glasses. Findings indicate that “AI annotators” based in Nairobi, Kenya, have been reviewing private imagery captured by the devices to train Meta AI. This data includes sensitive content such as domestic interiors (kitchens and bathrooms), nudity, […]
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The EU is fundamentally attempting to redesign the way we interact with social media, moving beyond simple content moderation to target the actual “skeleton” of these apps. For the first time, Brussels is treating addictive design—specifically features like infinite scrolling—not just as a nuisance, but as a legal risk under the Digital Services Act (DSA). […]
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