BrianFagioli writes: Google says it will finally release Chrome for ARM64 Linux in the second quarter of 2026, bringing the company's full browser to a platform that has existed for years without official support

AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia team up with Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI to develop protocol-agnostic optical scale-up interconnects for AI clusters

Instagram has long limited users' ability to share links, restricting link-sharing to Stories, Reels and user profiles

Social media firms need to use better age verification technologies to keep children off their platforms, the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said

Its not just the major social platforms that know how effective an endless scroll of short videos is at hijacking your dopamine system

All four chips have been developed in partnership with Broadcom and are scheduled for deployment within the next two years

Metahas launched new tools on Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp to help protect users from fraud

Deploying them by the gigawatt but still cant flag obvious AI slop Social networking giant Meta has revealed details of four previously unknown custom chips powering its AI services.

Google has announced several new features fo r Google Play aimed at improving how users discover, purchase, and play paid games across both mobile and PC platforms

WhatsApp is normally only accessible to teenagers aged 13 and over, but Meta has now announced parent-managed accounts for WhatsApp that will allow parents to set up the app for children aged 10 to 12, the company says

Penipuan dalam talian semakin meruncing dan menimbulkan kebimbangan kerana sindiket jenayah siber kini beroperasi dengan cara yang lebih licik serta sukar dikesan

Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and Roblox are among the platforms UK regulators say aren't putting children's safety at the heart of their products.

The Steam Machine is back from the dead

Meta rolls out scam protection warnings to Facebook, Instagram

150k accounts nuked, 21 suspects arrested Not every scam starts with malware or a compromised account

Meta has announced that its introducing parent-managed accounts on WhatsApp

Eight of the 10 most popular AI chatbots were willing to help plan violent attacks when tested by researchers, according to a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), in partnership with CNN

BRUSSELS, March 11 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp said on Wednesday it would allow parents to create accounts for pre-teens, restricted to messaging and calling, amid rising global concerns about the impact of social media and chat apps on children

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled a roadmap of four new chips that the company is making in-house, as it rapidly expands its data centers

The MTIA processors are the tech giants latest attempt to build its own AI hardware, even as it continues spending billions on gear from industry leaders like Nvidia.

Meta will begin charging advertisers a 2-5% "location fee" to offset digital services taxes imposed by several European countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Turkey. Reuters reports: The fee, for image or video ads delivered on Meta platforms including WhatsApp click-to-message campaigns and marketing messages together with ads, will apply from July 1 and will also cover other government-imposed levies

Meta's latest generations of its MTIA series of in-house chips for artificial intelligence will help support the company's massive data center expansion plans.

Meta has acquired Moltbook and its founders, bringing the Reddit-like AI social network under its Superintelligence Labs business

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models

Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to criminal scam centers last year, the company announced on Wednesday.

After leaving Meta last year, the former deputy prime minister of the UK is charting a new path in the AI industry that has nothing to do with AGI.

MADRID, March 11 (Reuters) - Spain will launch a tool to measure hate speech on digital platforms as part of a broader strategy to increase oversight of social media companies, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday

Meta announced new features today aimed at cracking down on scams perpetrated via its platforms

Google is rolling out stricter verification rules for financial advertisers targeting Malaysia, requiring companies to prove they are licensed by local regulators before running ads on its platforms

Pada masa ini, pengguna boleh berinteraksi dengan Meta AI di WhatsApp secara percuma terus melalui aplikasi dengan respon masa nyata

Meta has introduced a set of new safeguards for teenage users in Malaysia through its Teen Accounts feature across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger

Keselamatan remaja semakin menjadi keutamaan dalam era penggunaan platform digital

March 10 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms will charge advertisers a location fee ranging from 2% to 5% to cover digital service taxes imposed by some countries, the U.S

Meta's advisers say its methods for policing AI videos are inadequate, especially at times of crisis.

US broadband households fund networks while high-traffic platforms avoid proportional contributions, with South Korea offering an alternative usage-based model

Moltbook was built for OpenClaw agents, and OpenClaw's founder, Peter Steinberger, was hired by OpenAI.

Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now ? The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.

The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.

The newly-implemented Shazam integration in ChatGPT allows users to identify songs directly within the chatbot across iOS, Android and web platforms.

Axios reports that Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit-like social network designed for AI agents

NVIDIA is reportedly working on its own open-source AI agent platform, according to Wired

NVIDIA's GeForce Now game streaming platform has added a few minor but useful updates, especially for GOG and VR headset users, the company announced at Game Developer's Conference (GDC)

Meta is snapping up Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents that has been around since January and remains completely ridiculous

Meta hari ini telah mengambil-alih Moltbook, iaitu sebuah platform sosial yang dibangunkan khusus untuk AI berjen menggunakan OpenClaw

March 10 (Reuters) - Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company's founders into its AI research division

This year's Future Games Show Spring Showcase will take place during GDC, during which 40 games will be featured

The Oversight Board is once again urging Meta to overhaul its rules around AI-generated content

Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok

March 10 (Reuters) - Advanced Machine Intelligence, the startup founded by former Meta Platforms chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, said on Tuesday it raised $1.03 billion based on a $3.50 billion pre-money valuation, as it seeks to commercialize artificial intelligence systems built around reasoning, planning and "world models." Read full story

As Meta Platforms Inc and Google start presenting their defence in a landmark trial over social media addiction, the companies are seeking to show the mental health struggles suffered by the 20-year-old who brought the case stemmed from turmoil in her family and school life

Rodes not done releasing trimmed-down versions of its production tools with an eye on budget conscious creators

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: AI-based assistants or "agents" -- autonomous programs that have access to the user's computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task -- are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers

The Netherlands military intelligence service and domestic intelligence agency have issued a join warning claiming that Russian hackers have launched "a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants." According to the Dutch alert, hackers are imitating support chatbots to trick key targets into revealing their PINs for those communication platforms, which allows the bad actors to access incoming messages

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who has led the upstart social platform since 2021, is stepping down from her role as its top executive

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned

Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker Former British deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has landed a board seat at UK-based neocloud Nscale, alongside fellow ex-Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg and former president of Yahoo Susan Decker

Astro has unveiled its 2026 Syawal programming suite, shifting its content strategy toward traditional Malaysian heritage and multi-platform integration

System76 isn't the only one criticizing new age-verification laws

Financing terms and swinging OpenAI capacity forecast collapse a major expansion of a Stargate data center

OpenAI 's robotics hardware lead is out

California's civil suit alleges that these websites and their operators are willfully distributing 3D printed gun files and instructions that could allow anyone to print a gun from scratch in as little as eight hours

In a tweet that's been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI's head of robotics announced their resignation

OpenAI is going to need to find a new head of robotics

Following in the footsteps of Australia , Indonesia will be the latest country to limit social media usage for children under 16

Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmful content, addiction, and online threats

Meta supposidly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia OpenAI and compute partner Oracle have reportedly abandoned a planned expansion of their flagship Stargate datacenter, after negotiations were stalled by financing and Sam Altman's apparent fear of commitment

In a blog post on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in California, Colorado, and New York that would require operating systems to verify users' ages and expose that information to apps, arguing the rules are easy for kids to bypass and ultimately undermine privacy and freedom more than they protect minors

On the sidelines of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week, Samsung revealed more details about its upcoming smart glasses

Samsung kini dalam persiapan untuk memperkenalkan kaca mata AI mereka tersendiri, sekaligus menyertai arena yang kini diterajui oleh Meta

Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS Many web sites, social media services, and other platforms require age verification on the theory that it will protect kids from seeing inappropriate content

ChargeSini and Meta Bright Group have deployed a DC charger at Sunway 163 Mall in Mont Kiara

JAKARTA, March 6 (Reuters) - Indonesia will restrict access to social media platforms for children under 16, its communications and digital ministry said on Friday, making it the latest country to install online guardrails to reduce the risks of addiction and cyberbullying

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 80 Level: Microsoft has officially confirmed development of its next-generation Xbox console, currently known internally as Project Helix

Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy

Today the US Senate unanimously passed proposed legislation known as COPPA 2.0

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "Shortly after the deadline to divest passed, President Trump issued an executive order purportedly granting an extension for TikTok to find a domestic owner and directed his Attorney General not to enforce the law." The plaintiffs in the suit are two software engineers from California: One is a shareholder in Alphabet Inc., YouTube's parent company; the other is a shareholder in Meta Platforms, Inc., which is Instagram's parent company