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On Tuesday, some Republicans in Congress celebrated Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that its platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Threads would roll back moderation and cease putting labels on content deemed misinformation by fact-checking partners. Zuckerberg and the company said that Meta had “gone too far” in its attempts to control the spread of misinformation, […]
The man who rammed a pickup truck into revelers on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day wore Meta smart glasses when planning and conducting the attack, the FBI said Sunday. While there’s no indication that the glasses were essential to the assault, which killed 14 people and wounded dozens more, their use as an […]
Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta’s sites and they’re everything we dreaded. As I stared into the dead-eyed visage of “Carter,” one of Meta’s new AI posters, I remembered a line from Dawn of the Dead. “When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth.” Something about George Romero’s […]
Meta updated a note on the top of its Quest support site to say that a “software update issue” has been bricking Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest 3S headsets. The company writes that while “most” people can now use their headsets normally, it’s “actively working on resolving the issue for all users.” That Meta […]
In October 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent his trillion-dollar social media company into a new direction. Facebook changed its name to Meta and Zuckerberg set his sights on a new horizon, the metaverse. “There was genuinely a need and a desire at the time for Facebook, the company, to rebrand into something else,” said […]
At a demo, one game developer showed me a game his company built for the Spectacles. It tracks how far you walk and overlays a gamified grid over the top of your surroundings. As you walk, you collect coins that add up over your route. RPG-style enemies will pop up occasionally too, which you can […]
Managing such a gargantuan array of chips to develop Llama 4 is likely to present unique engineering challenges and require vast amounts of energy. Meta executives on Wednesday sidestepped an analyst question about energy access constraints in parts of the US that have hampered companies’ efforts to develop more powerful AI. According to one estimate, […]
Stratechery has benefited from a Meta cheat code since its inception: wait for investors to panic, the stock to drop, and write an Article that says Meta is fine — better than fine even — and sit back and watch the take be proven correct. Notable examples include 2013’s post-IPO swoon, the 2018 Stories swoon, […]
Meta, formerly Facebook, brought to the world Express Wi-Fi back in 2016. The service promised better internet connectivity in public places for more than one billion prospect users who have to live with poor internet connection. For this Meta collaborated with multiple partners in the telecom sector (mobile and satellite operators) to create an ecosystem […]