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Interview with Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín on preparing Meta for a critical year in elections, the weaponization of social platforms, and more (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-disinformation-elections/

How Ready Is Meta for the Biggest Election Year in History?
WIRED spoke with a member of Meta’s Oversight Board about how the company plans to handle elections around the world in 2024.

Meta Refuses to Answer Questions on Gaza Censorship, Say Sens. Warren and Sanders #Meta

Wie Meta gegen Wahleinmischung und Wählerbetrug zur Europawahl vorgehen will
Im Juni wird das Europaparlament gewählt. Wie Fake-News und andere manipulative Inhalte auf Facebook, Instagram und Threads verhindert werden sollen.

Mouth stuck open!!
“A recent BI analysis of regulatory filings found that Meta has lost a cumulative $47 billion in its metaverse-focused Reality Labs division since 2019.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-apple…

Meta is hoping Apple's Vision Pro can help save the metaverse
As Apple prepares to launch the Vision Pro, Meta appears to be welcoming its arrival, rather than seeing it as a threat.

https://blog.erlend.sh/what-meta-corp-can-give-the-fediverse-money
I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public…

What Meta-corp can give the fediverse: Money
Money, Money, Money by Uganda Lebre Threads has entered the fediverse. There is so much to say about this, and I'm simply not ready to ...

Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B for March 2024 (Meta Investor Relations)
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/…

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. "It's been a good start to the year," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The new version of Meta AI with Llama 3 is another step towards building the world's leading AI. We're seeing healthy growth across our apps and we continue making steady progress building the metaverse as well." First Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights Three Months Ended March 31, % Change In millions, …

Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall (Kali Hays/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-reveal-first-ar-glasses-fal…

Meta aiming to reveal first AR glasses during fall Connect conference
Meta's first "true" AR glasses, codenamed Orion, have been in the works for several years.

🕶️ The Meta Quest 2 and its accessories are cheaper than ever
#technology

The Meta Quest 2 and its accessories are cheaper than ever
The Quest 2 VR headset is more inviting than ever with a price drop to $199.99 at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Even its accessories are discounted.

#Meta #AI: Introducing #SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction

Introducing SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
Today, we’re introducing SceneScript, a novel method for reconstructing environments and representing the layout of physical spaces.

Meta Platforms scheffelt Geld für mehr KI, Aktie fällt
Meta-Aktien stürzen nachbörslich um ein Sechstel ab. Dabei ist der Geldhahn bei Meta weit geöffnet.​
https://www.heise.de…

https://techcrunch.…

Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media | TechCrunch
Meta's move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace

Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat #Meta

EU-Kommission eröffnet Verfahren gegen #Apple, #Meta und #Alphabet

EnBW, KLM, TeamViewer: Europäische Firmen entwickeln visionOS-Apps fürs Business
Meta bewirbt seine Quest-Produkte gezielt für geschäftliche Anwendungen. Apple legt nach – auch mit europäischen Vision-Pro-Kunden.

Meta Platforms scheffelt Geld für mehr KI, Aktie fällt
Meta-Aktien stürzen nachbörslich um ein Sechstel ab. Dabei ist der Geldhahn bei Meta weit geöffnet.​
https://www.heise.de…

Sources detail Meta's unconventional moves to attract and keep AI researchers, including Zuckerberg personally writing to DeepMind researchers to recruit them (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me

Meta Pursues AI Talent With Quick Offers, Emails From Zuckerberg
To better compete for artificial intelligence researchers, Meta Platforms is making unconventional moves, including extending job offers to candidates without interviewing them and relaxing a longstanding practice of not increasing compensation for employees threatening to leave. In a sign of ...

"The EU is opening 5 non-compliance investigations into how Apple, Google, & Meta are complying with its new Digital Markets Act #antitrust rules, the regulator announced today. “We suspect that the suggested solutions put forward by the three companies do not fully comply with the #DMA,” the EU’s an…

Apple, Meta, and Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations
The European Commission suspects that the companies aren’t in compliance with its landmark antitrust rules. The investigations will last up to 12 months.

classic case of doing the right thing for the wrong reason: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/158257/russian-court-sentences-meta-spokesperson-to-six-years-in-absentia-calls-meta-…

Russian Court Sentences Meta Spokesperson To Six Years in Absentia, Calls Meta 'Extremist Organisation' - Slashdot
A military court in Moscow on Monday sentenced Meta spokesperson Andy Stone to six years in prison for "publicly defending terrorism," a verdict handed down in absentia, RIA news agency reported. Reuters: Meta itself is designated an extremist organisation in Russia and its Facebook and Instagram so...

"LLMs are good at generating plausible-sounding narratives which are wrong"
Meta.ai edition by @…
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat #Meta

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results (Meta Investor Relations)
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-First-Quarter-2024-Results/default.aspx

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. "It's been a good start to the year," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The new version of Meta AI with Llama 3 is another step towards building the world's leading AI. We're seeing healthy growth across our apps and we continue making steady progress building the metaverse as well." First Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights Three Months Ended March 31, % Change In millions, …

Russia sentences Meta spokesperson in absentia for 'justifying terrorism': https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/22/russia-sentences-meta.html

"The Facebook Pages of national news outlets lost approximately 64% of their Facebook engagement following the end of news availability for Canadian users. Local news outlets lost approximately 85%. Almost half of all local news outlets stopped posting on Facebook entirely in the four months following the ban."
And user used workarounds hurting newspaper visibility. Bad choice. But going to be repeated in CH 🤦

ColonyOS -- A Meta-Operating System for Distributed Computing Across Heterogeneous Platform
Johan Kristiansson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16486 https://

ColonyOS -- A Meta-Operating System for Distributed Computing Across Heterogeneous Platform
This paper presents ColonyOS, an open-source meta-operating system designed to improve integration and utilization of diverse computing platforms, including IoT, edge, cloud, and HPC. Operating as an overlay, ColonyOS can interface with a wide range of computing environments, fostering creation of so-called compute continuums. This makes it possible to develop AI workflows and applications that can operate across platforms. At its core, ColonyOS consists of distributed executors that integrate …

‘Discussing market power, Aaron Nielson, the Texas solicitor general, says that “there are a lot of competitors for Twitter or would-be competitors, including Threads from Meta, which is backed by one of the largest companies." They invested “massive amounts of money to break up the Twitter monopoly and they failed miserably,” Mr. Nielson said.’
Platforms and protocols get conflated; Folks still convince themselves that X enjoys centrality of historical Twitter.

Filings detail Meta's Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019 (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/project-ghostbusters-facebook-meta-wiret…

Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat
Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, "Project Ghostbusters," to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices.

Honestly I’m good with a delay. This mod is a huge undertaking and it’s worth the wait.
https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/112319930382798138

Donnerstag: TikTok zuversichtlich gegen US-Verbot, Meta mit mehr Geld für KI
TikToks Kampf in den USA Meta-Aktie fällt trotz Wachstum Getir vor dem Ende Hannover Messe im Video Ärzte zum E-Rezept #heiseshow: Europol, TikTok, KI

Meta's stock drops 15% as the company issues a light Q2 revenue forecast and higher FY 2024 capital expenditures due to increased AI infrastructure investments (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/meta-meta-q1-2024-earnings-.html

On the Computational Complexity of Stackelberg Planning and Meta-Operator Verification: Technical Report
Gregor Behnke, Marcel Steinmetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17826

On the Computational Complexity of Stackelberg Planning and Meta-Operator Verification: Technical Report
Stackelberg planning is a recently introduced single-turn two-player adversarial planning model, where two players are acting in a joint classical planning task, the objective of the first player being hampering the second player from achieving its goal. This places the Stackelberg planning problem somewhere between classical planning and general combinatorial two-player games. But, where exactly? All investigations of Stackelberg planning so far focused on practical aspects. We close this gap …

wo ist die Frau von Nawalny - MetaGer
https://metager.de/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=wo ist die Frau von Nawalny&mgv=6a9ba261ffaf533e90d5d66e2f2c8e25&ua=1

#ReleaseWednesday 🚀 This week's https://thi.ng/umbrella releases include:

Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 190 TypeScript projects for general purpose, functional, data driven development

Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B for March 2024 (Meta Investor Relations)
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/…

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. "It's been a good start to the year," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The new version of Meta AI with Llama 3 is another step towards building the world's leading AI. We're seeing healthy growth across our apps and we continue making steady progress building the metaverse as well." First Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights Three Months Ended March 31, % Change In millions, …

Nick Clegg, who could have insisted on PR instead of FPTP, but instead enabled Cameron to be an awful PM who caused Brexit, is now talking nonsence about AI
https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-assistant-llama3-large-lan…

Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveils new set of artificial intelligence systems
Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow. Google, Meta Platforms and OpenAI, along with startups such as Anthropic, Cohere and France’s Mistral, have been churning out new AI language models and hoping to persuade customers they’ve got the smartest, handiest or most efficient chatbots. Meta is the latest to up its game, unveiling new models Thursday that will be among the most visible: they’re already getting baked into F…

Donnerstag: TikTok zuversichtlich gegen US-Verbot, Meta mit mehr Geld für KI
TikToks Kampf in den USA Meta-Aktie fällt trotz Wachstum Getir vor dem Ende Hannover Messe im Video Ärzte zum E-Rezept #heiseshow: Europol, TikTok, KI

Zeit für eine erste Bilanz:
Folgt ihr aus dem #Fediverse schon Accounts auf #Threads?

I'm curious who else got a DM from a certain Fediverse account that lists different instances for people to get information about? Specifically asking about a DM telling you that to continue to be listed on their site, your instance is required to defederate from a certain other platform that is owned by Meta.
If you got a DM from them and care to share that information, that would be great.

holy fucking shit, meta is opening up their quest OS to third parties, there's gonna be an asus rog headset, a thinkvision and an xbox edition quest running the same os that's on the quest?? this is pretty crazy
https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/ques…

Adjusting for Ascertainment Bias in Meta-Analysis of Penetrance for Cancer Risk
Thanthirige Lakshika M. Ruberu, Danielle Braun, Giovanni Parmigiani, Swati Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15030

Adjusting for Ascertainment Bias in Meta-Analysis of Penetrance for Cancer Risk
Multi-gene panel testing allows efficient detection of pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes including moderate-risk genes such as ATM and PALB2. A growing number of studies examine the risk of breast cancer (BC) conferred by pathogenic variants of such genes. A meta-analysis combining the reported risk estimates can provide an overall age-specific risk of developing BC, i.e., penetrance for a gene. However, estimates reported by case-control studies often suffer from ascertainment…

Sadly, this is kinda the new normal.
#GenerativeAI

How a Small Iowa Newspaper's Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory
When two former Meta employees dug into why the website of Iowa's Clayton County Register was spewing dubious posts about stocks, they uncovered a network of sites slinging seemingly AI-made content.

EU-Kommission: So sollen Plattformen systemische Risiken bei Wahlen verringern​ | heise online
https://heise.de/-9667438

EU-Kommission: So sollen Plattformen systemische Risiken bei Wahlen verringern​
Auf Basis des Digital Services Act (DSA) hat die Kommission Leitlinien für Google, Meta & Co. veröffentlicht, wie diese etwa Deepfakes erkennbar machen müssen.​

Thanks for this, @…, but you've got a #grammar error in the first sentence. Its subject is "we," i.e., Meta. The introduction starting with "as a donor" modifies that. You're saying *you* have previously donated: "As a donor…, we are w…

A Situated-Infrastructuring of WhatsApp for Business in India
Ankolika De
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16124 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404…

A Situated-Infrastructuring of WhatsApp for Business in India
WhatsApp has become a pivotal communication tool in India, transcending cultural boundaries and deeply integrating into the nation's digital landscape. Meta's introduction of WhatsApp for Business aligns seamlessly with the platform's popularity, offering businesses a crucial tool. However, the monetization plans pose challenges, particularly for smaller businesses, in balancing revenue goals with accessibility. This study, employing discourse analysis, examines Meta's infrastructuring of Whats…

Threadsのアカウント設定で、Fediverseに共有することができるようになるらしい。
FediverseのアカウントをThreadsでフォローできるのかな？
https://www.theverge.com/24106231/threads-fediverse-demo-meta-fediforum

Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time
Meta’s Threads is working on a fediverse integration and just showed off a demo of how it might look during the FediForum conference.

Ach ne, die Link-Steuer in Canada hat negative Auswirkungen auf die Zeitungsverlage? Das hat ja niemand kommen sehen …
#lsr #linktax #journalism

Enhancing Testing at Meta with Rich-State Simulated Populations
Nadia Alshahwan, Arianna Blasi, Kinga Bojarczuk, Andrea Ciancone, Natalija Gucevska, Mark Harman, Simon Schellaert, Inna Harper, Yue Jia, Micha{\l} Kr\'olikowski, Will Lewis, Dragos Martac, Rubmary Rojas, Kate Ustiuzhanina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15374…

Enhancing Testing at Meta with Rich-State Simulated Populations
This paper reports the results of the deployment of Rich-State Simulated Populations at Meta for both automated and manual testing. We use simulated users (aka test users) to mimic user interactions and acquire state in much the same way that real user accounts acquire state. For automated testing, we present empirical results from deployment on the Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram apps for iOS and Android Platforms. These apps consist of tens of millions of lines of code, communicating with …

Quest 3 als AirPlay-Empfänger: Meta fragt bei Apple an
Meta würde sein Mixed-Reality-Headset Quest 3 gerne per AirPlay an Apple-Geräte anbinden. Die Frage ist nur: Stimmt der iPhone-Hersteller zu?
https://www.

ColonyOS -- A Meta-Operating System for Distributed Computing Across Heterogeneous Platform
Johan Kristiansson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16486 https://

ColonyOS -- A Meta-Operating System for Distributed Computing Across Heterogeneous Platform
This paper presents ColonyOS, an open-source meta-operating system designed to improve integration and utilization of diverse computing platforms, including IoT, edge, cloud, and HPC. Operating as an overlay, ColonyOS can interface with a wide range of computing environments, fostering creation of so-called compute continuums. This makes it possible to develop AI workflows and applications that can operate across platforms. At its core, ColonyOS consists of distributed executors that integrate …

Two ex-Meta employees find an AI clickbait network linked to a Polish IT company, which is "domain squatting" on URLs, including Iowa's Clayton County Register (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/iowa-newspaper-website-a…

How a Small Iowa Newspaper's Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory
When two former Meta employees dug into why the website of Iowa's Clayton County Register was spewing dubious posts about stocks, they uncovered a network of sites slinging seemingly AI-made content.

Meta started rolling out its new opt-out political content settings on Instagram and Threads last week to "limit political content from people you don't follow" (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/2411160

Meta’s new setting shadow bans politics on Instagram and Threads
How to find a new opt-out setting in Instagram that “limits” the recommendation of political content from accounts you don’t follow in both Instagram and Threads.

Threads von Meta hat jetzt 150 Millionen monatlich aktive User
Nach weniger als einem Jahr öffnen mehr als 150 Millionen Menschen mindestens einmal im Monat Threads. Mark Zuckerberg zeigt sich ziemlich zufrieden.

And that, I believe, is the real reason #Meta is implementing #activitypub: So that they can cross-post across all their apps, such as from #Facebook to

Meta tests cross-posting from Facebook to its Twitter/X competitor, Threads | TechCrunch
Threads may be about to get another big boost from parent company Meta...at least in terms of sources of new content. The company has been spotted testing

#Meta losses from its namesake #Metaverse operations over the past few years accumulate to the debt of a small nation state.
Their vision is to not only mentally and socially lock us in to their platforms, but extend that to some kind of physical wall, a real walled garden.
(Given that,…

Meta's Oversight Board calls on the company to end its blanket ban on the Arabic word "shaheed", or "martyr", after a review found Meta's approach "overbroad" (Katie Paul/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technolo…

Meta verkündet eine "neue Ära für Mixed Reality"
Der US-Internetkonzern Meta benennt seine Quest-Softwareplattform in Meta Horizon OS um und öffnet sie für Headset-Hersteller von Drittanbietern.
https:…

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI assistant has been "tried" by "tens of millions of people" and it will take Meta several years to make money from generative AI (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24139591/…

Zuckerberg: It will take Meta years to make money from generative AI
‘There are several massive ways to build a business here,’ but it’s going to take time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company’s first quarter 2024 earnings call.

Meta, Google, Snap, and Amazon all benefit from the US TikTok ban; Mark Zuckerberg criticized TikTok's Chinese roots in 2019, part of Meta's broader campaign (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/…

Analysis | Congress’ first tech crackdown in years is a gift to Big Tech
Meta and Google stand ready to reap a TikTok ban’s rewards.

Smart Glasses von Meta und Ray-Ban bekommen Videocalls per WhatsApp
Mit den Smart Glasses von Ray-Ban und Meta kann man künftig Videocalls führen. Möglich wird das mit WhatsApp und dem Facebook Messenger.

A timeline of EU's DMA investigations into Apple, Google, and Meta: each have 12 months to fix the issues, before risking fines of up to 10% of global revenue (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple, Google, Meta: What Happens Next With EU Probe Is Key
Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc. were this week all hit by investigations under the European Union’s landmark new Digital Markets Act — plunging the future for some of their key services into uncertainty and running the risk of multi-billion dollar fines.

A Situated-Infrastructuring of WhatsApp for Business in India
Ankolika De
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16124 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404…

A Situated-Infrastructuring of WhatsApp for Business in India
WhatsApp has become a pivotal communication tool in India, transcending cultural boundaries and deeply integrating into the nation's digital landscape. Meta's introduction of WhatsApp for Business aligns seamlessly with the platform's popularity, offering businesses a crucial tool. However, the monetization plans pose challenges, particularly for smaller businesses, in balancing revenue goals with accessibility. This study, employing discourse analysis, examines Meta's infrastructuring of Whats…

Enhancing Testing at Meta with Rich-State Simulated Populations
Nadia Alshahwan, Arianna Blasi, Kinga Bojarczuk, Andrea Ciancone, Natalija Gucevska, Mark Harman, Simon Schellaert, Inna Harper, Yue Jia, Micha{\l} Kr\'olikowski, Will Lewis, Dragos Martac, Rubmary Rojas, Kate Ustiuzhanina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15374…

Enhancing Testing at Meta with Rich-State Simulated Populations
This paper reports the results of the deployment of Rich-State Simulated Populations at Meta for both automated and manual testing. We use simulated users (aka test users) to mimic user interactions and acquire state in much the same way that real user accounts acquire state. For automated testing, we present empirical results from deployment on the Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram apps for iOS and Android Platforms. These apps consist of tens of millions of lines of code, communicating with …

And that, I believe, is the real reason #Meta is implementing #activitypub: So that they can cross-post across all their apps, such as from #Facebook to

Meta tests cross-posting from Facebook to its Twitter/X competitor, Threads | TechCrunch
Threads may be about to get another big boost from parent company Meta...at least in terms of sources of new content. The company has been spotted testing

EU-Kommission: So sollen Plattformen systemische Risiken bei Wahlen verringern​
Auf Basis des Digital Services Act (DSA) hat die Kommission Leitlinien für Google, Meta & Co. veröffentlicht, wie diese etwa Deepfakes erkennbar machen müssen.​

Meta's stock drops 15% as the company issues a light Q2 revenue forecast and higher FY 2024 capital expenditures due to increased AI infrastructure investments (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/meta-meta-q1-2024-earnings-.html

Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses get support for video calling via WhatsApp and Messenger, Apple Music compatibility, and a new frame style (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138228/ray-ban-meta-smart-glas…

The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses get video calling, Apple Music, and a new style
Meta announced several updates for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. There are new cat-eye frames, Apple Music compatibility, video calling, and a multimodal AI rollout.

Russisches Gericht verhängt Haftstrafe gegen Meta-Sprecher
Der Meta-Sprecher Andy Stone ist in Abwesenheit von einem Gericht wegen "öffentlicher Verbreitung von Terrorismus" zu sechs Jahren Haft verurteilt worden.
…

Meta opens up its VR OS called Horizon OS to third parties and says Asus and Lenovo are both planning Meta Horizon OS-compatible headsets (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/meta-opens-up-its-vr-os-to-third-party-headsets/

Meta Expands Its Mixed Reality Beyond the Quest Headsets
Meta opened the Quest Horizon OS to others, and now VR headsets from Asus, Lenovo and even an Xbox variant are on the way.

Meta rolls out an early access multimodal AI to Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, primarily to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138090/ray-ban-meta-smar…

The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now
Multimodal AI is now available for all Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses users. While finicky, it’s a more natural form factor for this tech.

The Mozilla Foundation and 90 research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/researchers-ask-m

Researchers ask Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until after 2024 elections
The Mozilla Foundation and dozens of other research and advocacy groups are pushing back on Meta’s decisions to shut down its research tool, CrowdTangle...

Flugmodus für Meta Quest: Funde deuten auf neue Funktion hin
In der Firmware v65 für die Meta Quest steckt ein Travel Mode für den Gebrauch in Flugzeugen. Damit könnte Meta zur Apple Vision Pro aufschließen.

Meta, Google, Snap, and Amazon all benefit from the US TikTok ban; Mark Zuckerberg criticized TikTok's Chinese roots in 2019, part of Meta's broader campaign (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/…

Analysis | Congress’ first tech crackdown in years is a gift to Big Tech
Meta and Google stand ready to reap a TikTok ban’s rewards.

Meta says "we understand Meta will not be required to pay for news content that publishers voluntarily post to our platforms" in Indonesia under a new law (Stanley Widianto/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-sa

Dienstag: Metas "neue Ära für Mixed Reality", FIFA kurz vor TV-Deal mit Apple
Meta bringt Meta Horizon OS Apple will Streaming-Rechte für Fußball Spionage bei Militärtechnik iPhone 16 bald mit Festtasten? Warnung von Europol

Meta AI läuft jetzt mit Llama 3
Meta Llama 3 ersetzt Llama 2. Bigger, better, faster, more!​
https://www.heise.de/news/Meta-AI-laeuft-jetzt-mit-Llama-3-9690318.html?wt…

Apptopia: Threads is now consistently surpassing X in US DAUs, up to ~28M in April, after it first began eclipsing X in Dec. 2023, but X still has more US MAUs (Kali Hays/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-threads-mor…

Meta's Threads now has more daily US users than Musk's X
Launched less than a year ago as a rival for Twitter, Threads is continuing to gain ground with users.

Threads von Meta bekommt aktuelle Trends, wird X/Twitter immer ähnlicher
In den USA zeigt Threads jetzt aktuelle Themen. Damit bekommt der Kurznachrichtendienst von Meta eine Funktion, die X/Twitter zu Popularität verholfen hatte.

The EU opens formal DMA investigations into Apple and Google over letting developers "steer" users from their app stores, and Meta over using user data for ads (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
https://t.co/BtANTE4Le6

Türkei: Meta stellt Threads lieber ein, anstatt Daten zu trennen
Meta Platforms soll in der Türkei bei Threads geerntete Daten nicht mit Instagram-Daten zusammenführen. Da sperrt Meta Threads lieber zu.​

Hands-on with the Meta AI chatbot: fails at basic search queries, stinks at counting, excels at editing existing paragraphs, quickly creates images, and more (Brian X. Chen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/technol

Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.

Kritik an Bezahlabo für Facebook und Instagram: Meta schlägt Preissenkung vor
Für 10 Euro soll man Facebook und Instagram ohne Werbung nutzen können. Die Kritik an den Plänen ist laut. Nun bringt Meta eine Preissenkung ins Spiel.

Meta's Oversight Board extends its scope to Threads, letting users appeal Meta's content moderation decisions with the same process as on Facebook and Instagram (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/the-over…

Meta's Oversight Board extends its scope to Threads | TechCrunch
The Oversight Board announced today that it is expanding its scope to Threads along with Facebook and Instagram to scrutinize Meta's content moderation decisions.

Meta is restricting certain election-related keywords for Meta AI in India due to ongoing elections; Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India last week (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/meta-ai-is-restrictin…

Meta AI is restricting election-related responses in India | TechCrunch
.With the Indian general elections set to begin this week, Meta is already blocking specific election-related queries in its chatbot.

Walmart's PhonePe debuts its Indus Appstore for consumers, with over 200K apps; the Android app store is available as an app that users will have to sideload (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/phon

India's PhonePe launches Android app store with Amazon, Meta and Microsoft apps | TechCrunch
Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are among the top brands whose apps are available on the Indian fintech PhonePe's Indus Appstore, an app store for the Android Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are among the top brands whose apps are available on the Indian fintech PhonePe's Indus Appstore.

A look at Databricks' new open source model DBRX, which cost ~$10M to develop over several months and, Databricks says, outshines Llama 2, Mixtral, and Grok (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/dbrx-inside-the-c…

Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World's Most Powerful Open Source AI Model
Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta's Llama 2.

Mittwoch: Nokia-Vorwürfe gegen Reddit, Threads von Meta mit trendigen Themen
Reddit prüft Patentverletzung Threads zeigt Trends Saudi-Arabien mit KI-Milliarden Blockchain gegen Produktfälscher Peugeots E-SUV Cowboys Cross-Bike

Meta gibt Tipps zum Umgehen der Apple-Provision bei Anzeigenschaltung
Apple nimmt 30 Prozent Provision für Social-Media-Boosts. Das stört nicht nur Meta. Jetzt erklärt die Facebook-Mutter, wie Anzeigenkunden die Gebühr umgehen.

Meta details Llama 3: 8B or 70B parameters and a focus on reducing false refusals; an upcoming large Llama 3 model trained on 15T tokens and has 400B parameters (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24133808/meta-ai-as…

Meta releases new AI assistant powered by Llama 3 model
Meta released Llama 3 and is expanding access to the Meta AI bot. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company has built “the most intelligent AI assistant” available for free.

Meta rolls out real-time AI image generation, which changes the image as the user types a prompt, in beta on WhatsApp and Meta AI on the web in the US (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24134079/meta-real-time-ai-image-…

Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsApp
Meta is rolling out real-time image generation in beta for WhatsApp users in the US. This lets users watch Meta’s Llama 3 create an image as they type a prompt.

Freitag: Meta-KI mit neuem Sprachmodell, Netflix mit Wachstum und weniger Infos
Llama 3 nur in Englisch Netflix bald ohne Abozahlen Intels High-NA-Chips Everspace 2 ausgezeichnet Boston Dynamics mit neuem Atlas Datenschutz-Podcast

The Mozilla Foundation and 90 research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/researchers-ask-m

Researchers ask Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until after 2024 elections
The Mozilla Foundation and dozens of other research and advocacy groups are pushing back on Meta’s decisions to shut down its research tool, CrowdTangle...

Meta says "we understand Meta will not be required to pay for news content that publishers voluntarily post to our platforms" in Indonesia under a new law (Stanley Widianto/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-sa

Meta cuts the price of the base 128GB Quest 2 from $249 to $199, its second permanent price cut in four months, after a drop from $299 to $249 in January (Kris Holt/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/meta-gives-the-quest…

Meta gives the Quest 2 its second permanent price cut in four months
Meta has given the base Quest 2 a permanent price cut for the second time this year. A headset with 128GB of storage is now $199.

Meta says it is testing its Meta AI chatbot with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/whatsapp-trials-meta-ai-chatbot-in-india-more-markets/

Meta trials its AI chatbot across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger in India and Africa | TechCrunch
Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger users in WhatsApp appears to be testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with users in India and some other markets.

Meta says it is testing its Meta AI chatbot with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/whatsapp-trials-meta-ai-chatbot-in-india-more-markets/

Meta trials its AI chatbot across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger in India and Africa | TechCrunch
Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger users in WhatsApp appears to be testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with users in India and some other markets.

Meta plans to add its Meta AI chatbot to Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook in the US and 12 other countries, and announces two Llama 3 models (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/meta-ai-assistant-push.html…

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

Q&A with ex-CEO of CrowdTangle Brandon Silverman about the founding principle of the research tool, Meta's decision to close it in an election year, and more (Chris Stokel-Walker/Fast Company)
https://www.fast…

CrowdTangle’s former CEO has questions about Meta’s decision to close the research tool in an election year
CrowdTangle has been a tool for researchers to track disinformation and its closure by Meta couldn’t come at a worse time, says former CEO Brandon Silverman.

Russia sentences Meta spokesperson Andy Stone to six years in absentia for "publicly defending terrorism"; Russia designates Meta as an extremist organization (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/russian…