On April 23rd, 2026 with 44 comments
Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. "We're doing this...
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On April 13th, 2026 with 91 comments
According to the Financial Times, Meta is developing an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg that could interact with employees using his voice, image, mannerisms, and...
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On April 10th, 2026 with 46 comments
Meta has started removing ads from law firms seeking clients for social media addiction lawsuits, just weeks after a jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in a...
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On March 25th, 2026 with 113 comments
A jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction case, ruling that addictive design features such as infinite scroll and...
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On March 25th, 2026 with 45 comments
Meta lost a child safety trial in New Mexico after a court found that its platforms failed to adequately protect children from exploitation and misled parents...
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On March 18th, 2026 with 51 comments
Meta is shutting down its VR social platform Horizon Worlds, which was once a key piece of the pivot to the metaverse. The company said the app will be taken...
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On March 16th, 2026 with 8 comments
AI infrastructure company Nebius signed a deal to provide up to $27 billion in AI computing capacity to Meta over the next five years, including a guaranteed...
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On March 11th, 2026 with 36 comments
Meta will begin charging advertisers a 2-5% "location fee" to offset digital services taxes imposed by several European countries, including the UK, France,...
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On January 20th, 2026 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Meta's Oversight Board is tackling a case focused on Meta's ability to permanently disable user accounts....
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On January 12th, 2026 with 33 comments
Meta plans to cut roughly 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, with layoffs hitting metaverse-focused teams hardest. Reuters reports: The cuts to...
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On December 30th, 2025 with 34 comments
Meta has agreed to acquire viral AI agent startup Manus, "a Singapore-based AI startup that's become the talk of Silicon Valley since it materialized this...
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On December 16th, 2025 with 54 comments
A Reuters investigation found that Meta knowingly tolerated large volumes of scam and illegal ads from China worth billions in revenue. Reuters reports: Though...
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On October 3rd, 2025 with 131 comments
The University of San Francisco issued a campuswide alert after reports of a man using Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses to film students while making "unwanted comments...
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On October 1st, 2025 with 35 comments
Meta will begin using data from AI chatbot conversations and other AI-powered products to fuel targeted advertising across Facebook and Instagram, with no way...
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On August 29th, 2025 with 19 comments
Reuters has found that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission....
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On August 22nd, 2025 with 14 comments
Google has signed a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta worth over $10 billion, making it the second major partnership after a recent agreement with...
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On August 21st, 2025 with 8 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Adweek: Meta wanted advertisers to believe its ecommerce ad product, Shops ads, was outperforming the competition, per...
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On July 14th, 2025 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Investing.com: Meta's newly formed superintelligence lab is discussing potential changes to the company's artificial...
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On July 8th, 2025 with 37 comments
Meta has acquired a $3.5 billion stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, "a deal that increases the U.S. tech giant's financial commitment to the fast-growing...
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On June 20th, 2025 with 2 comments
According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Meta reportedly explored acquiring Perplexity AI but the deal fell through, with conflicting accounts on whether it was...
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On May 15th, 2025 with 8 comments
According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Meta is delaying the release of its largest Llama 4 AI model, known as "Behemoth," over concerns that it may...
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On May 1st, 2025 with 38 comments
Meta's Reality Labs posted a $4.2 billion operating loss in Q1 2025. According to CNBC, cumulative losses since 2020 now exceed $60 billion. From the report: ...
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On April 23rd, 2025 with 13 comments
Meta has expanded both the feature set and availability of its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Notable updates include live translation with offline support through...
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On April 14th, 2025 with 29 comments
Meta said the company plans to start using data collected from its users in the European Union to train its AI systems. Engadget reports: Starting this week,...
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On March 6th, 2025 with 14 comments
Earlier this week, Meta chief product officer Chris Cox said the company's upcoming open-source Llama 4 AI will help power AI agents for hundreds of millions...
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On January 20th, 2025 with 15 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Meta is among a long list of companies being sued for allegedly using pirated material to train its AI...
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On December 14th, 2024 with 22 comments
25 years ago today, the late, great Suck.com played a prank on Slashdot. Their daily column of pop-culture criticism was replaced by... Suckdot, a parody site...
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On November 24th, 2024 with 117 comments
Reddit's moderators drew some criticism after "locking" a discussion about C++ paper/proposal author Andrew Tomazos. The URL (in the post with the locked...
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On November 13th, 2024 with 32 comments
Meta said it plans to introduce advertisements on Threads starting in early 2025, according to a report by The Information (paywalled). GuruFocus reports: ...
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On October 14th, 2024 with 10 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Adobe (ADBE.O), opens new tab on Monday said it has started publicly distributing an AI model that can...
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