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California's attorney general is now looking at TikTok and YouTube to enact teen safety features.

It's the second update in less than two months to address privacy concerns.

Meta's settlement could force its biggest competitors to reshape their apps.

Meta's billion-dollar settlement will change how Instagram and Facebook work.

Reuters reports that Meta explored shrinking some teams by as much as 60% as part of an "AI native" restructuring plan that would shift much of employees' day-to-day work to AI agents and smaller teams of human "builders." But the effort quickly ran into employee revolt and disappointing productivity gains, leading Zuckerberg to scrap a planned second wave of cuts after Meta laid off 10% of its workforce in May

Ill never forgive Meta for abandoning Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR, but now a modder has finally brought the game to the Meta Quest 3

Meta's agreement to settle a federal social media addiction case with state AGs doesn't absolve the company of similar litigation or potential regulation.

Other social media firms are yet to respond, while the debate from campaigners is far from over.

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Hari ini Meta bersetuju membayar $18 bilion dalam tempoh 10 tahun bagi menyelesaikan kes yang difailkan beberapa negeri di Amerika Syarikat kerana didakwa menyebabkan ketagihan dalam kalangan pengguna remaja

Meta bersetuju membayar sehingga $18 bilion (~RM 73 bilion) dalam tempoh 10 tahun untuk menyelesaikan tuntutan undang-undang berkaitan ketagihan media sosial kanak-kanak

The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by US states.

Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ..

Meta and state attorneys general settled a federal trial centering on allegations that company misrepresented the extent of child-related mental health harms.

Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the companys platforms will work for teens

The problem with Meta's AI restructuring plan is the AI wasn't good enough.

The settlement also adds mandatory time limits and other default safeguards across Instagram and Facebook.

The hackers are asking for $13 million from CyrusOne, and have given the company a four-day deadline to comply.

"Somehow the narrative has turned to say that it was not good for Meta

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims from most U.S

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and to make changes to Facebook and other online services, all to settle a federal lawsuit alleging teenagers are being harmed by social media

Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along

Meta has settled out of a landmark social media addiction trial, agreeing to pay $17 billion to state authorities and making safety changes to its platform.

In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified during a federal trial that he doesn't direct employees to withhold information that could pose legal risks to Meta.

A landmark trial brought by 29 states could force Meta to redesign some of Facebook and Instagrams most well-known features.

A new Surfshark study names Meta the most data-hungry Big Tech firm, collecting triple the data of Apple or Microsoft

Meta kini dilaporkan sedang dalam persiapan untuk melancarkan penawaran AI berejen seumpama OpenClaw dinamakan Hatch

Meta's court battles are an overhang on the stock, but its business fundamentals make it one worth holding.

Tethered display glasses are truly practical face computers

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has presided over a series of landmark tech trials and is now overseeing a case that could have a huge impact on Meta's future.

The week's biggest tech news stories from Google, Meta, Rockstar and more for August 22, 2026.

Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time its a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.

Deeper in the code still was a seemingly-forgotten demo video of a user accessing Visual Intelligence while wearing AirPods Pro. Many were quick to jump to the conclusion that these could enable creepy actions like those perpetrated while wearing Meta smart glasses

"These trials are often compared to the Big Tobacco lawsuits of the 90s, and the outcome will likely be analogous as well," one analyst told CNBC.

Movie theatres considering banning Meta Ray-Bans in the UK as businesses beat governments to the punch.

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It's called Pocket and is described as a "platform for making and sharing gizmos."

Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn will have to pay millions to support local news outlets under Australia's new rules.

Meta AI is typically found embedded as an in-app chatbot within WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, or accessed as a web application

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Meta was infused with a culture in which employees obsessed over user numbers and consistently pushed safety to the side, according to Arturo Bejar, a former employee turned whistleblower, who testified today in the landmark child safety trial against the social media company

ICE banned employees from wearing Meta smart glasses at work, citing privacy risks, while DHS pursues its own prototypes.

Meta AI has arrived as a beta Mac app, but the company's data collection practices make the privacy tradeoff worth considering before diving straight in

'Personally owned body-worn cameras are prohibited,' ICE tells The Reg

Meta's new Mac app is part of the company's push to make more business-friendly AI tools.

Following opening arguments in the case against Meta, California Attorney General Bonta said the trial is not about extracting a massive payout.

Smart glasses have become a recurring accessory amid the immigration crackdown.

Meta argued social media addiction does not exist, as a trial stemming from a major lawsuit brought by US states got under way.

Like with mockery about the Snuggie, the Clapper, and so forth, most of the drama badly misses the point. AirPods Pro 2 Meta's AI specs are creepy

Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, survey shows

One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician

Apple dilaporkan telah membangunkan AirPods dengan kamera terbina sejak tahun lalu. Dengan kamera terbina, ia akan berfungsi seperti cermin mata pintar Meta tetapi lebih sukar dikesan

Meta is heading to trial in a case brought by dozens of states accusing it of deliberately designing addictive features, misleading users about safety, and illegally collecting data from children under 13

Meta faces a federal trial over child safety claims that could bring major financial penalties and changes to Facebook and Instagram.

Dozens of states accuse the company of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

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Alibaba launched a laptop-ready AI model and released the weights of its most powerful Qwen model, escalating its rivalry with Meta in open-weight AI.

"It works by making subtle changes in the AI's word choices across the text it generates, which are supposed to be imperceptible to a human but, in aggregate, form a pattern that is detectable with the tool." Anthropic said it was implementing the watermark system in response to the European Union's landmark AI Act passed in 2024, which requires that AI companies mark content that's been generated or edited by their systems. TechCrunch notes that other companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Synthesia have committed to adhering to the EU's code

Thirty US states have sued Meta to force an overhaul of its platforms for young users.

The open-source codec Meta released in 2022 converts a waveform into discrete tokens that a matching decoder turns back into audio.

[At OpenAI and Anthropic] sprints can stretch on for many weeks and top 90 hours of work in a seven-day period, tech workers that the BBC spoke to for this story said... At Meta, workers said they have been abruptly pushed onto teams this year doing AI work being treated as urgent..

This week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter titled "The Future is for Everyone"

Meta has patented a smart-glasses system that could use facial recognition to identify people and automatically create personalized highlight reels of events such as dinner parties

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg is the latest Big Tech name to pen a letter thousands of words long about AI.

Meta has introduced a refreshed wordmark for Instagram, featuring a new font and styling while retaining elements of the original design

It won't necessarily help others know you're recording, but Apple's smart glasses patent application has proposals for securing the device. Meta Ray-Bans are either going to give all smart glasses a bad name , or introduce a massive societal change where we shrug at privacy

Selepas mengekalkan rekaan logo teks untuk Instagram selama 10 tahun, hari ini Meta memperkenalkan kemaskini untuknya dalam tampak lebih moden dan berbeza berbanding sebelumnya

Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to an Irish charity supporting people with sight loss.

Wired reports that consumer neurotechnology is rapidly moving from the lab into workplaces and homes, with companies including Apple, Meta, and Snap developing products that can monitor or interpret brain activity

Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison.

A German digital-rights group has filed a criminal complaint against Meta, Ray-Ban parent EssilorLuxottica, and several retailers over Meta's AI smart glasses, arguing the devices can enable covert recording in violation of German privacy law

With China way ahead in the market for open-weight models, Meta and Nvidia are both doing what they can to put the U.S