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Meta is the company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Quest VR headsets, and a major force in AI and the metaverse. This tag covers Meta’s product launches, social media changes, Llama AI models, and its bets on virtual and augmented reality. Stay informed on one of the biggest names in social and immersive tech.
A researcher showed that a WhatsApp video call can open the full photo gallery on a locked Android phone, with no PIN, pattern or fingerprint anywhere in the chain. It worked on a fully patched Pixel and failed on a Galaxy. Here is the thirty second permission change that shuts it down.
WhatsApp replaced its six digit two-step verification PIN with a full alphanumeric password, opened up multiple passkeys per account, and started telling Android users who is calling. Here is what each change actually protects you from.
Instagram is testing clickable links inside post captions for Meta Verified creators, which would finally retire the “link in bio” ritual. The test is small, the cap looks like 10 links a month, and business accounts are shut out.
Eight months after abandoning open source over the Llama 4 benchmark scandal, Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30 billion parameter Apache 2.0 model that runs on a single consumer GPU. Here is what it does well, where Qwen still beats it, and why Meta opened the small model instead of the big one.
Zak, Zelda and Cody Williams brought their father’s dormant Instagram account back online to reclaim his likeness from AI generated video. The move works as a cultural statement. Legally, it does almost nothing, and that is the real story.
Instagram redesigned its wordmark for the first time in a decade and half the internet is reading it as Instagzam. The popular explanation is that Gen Z cannot read cursive. That is not why Instagram changed the logo, but it does explain the misreading.
Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter agentic model that runs entirely on a single consumer GPU. Here is how it works, how it benchmarks against Gemma and Qwen, and why it matters.
One day after Meta lost a similar child safety lawsuit in New Mexico, a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday handed…
Meta willfully violated New Mexico law by misleading users about the safety of its products and engaging in an unconscionable…
Meta’s “metaverse” has become the tech equivalent of Schrödinger’s Cat. It exists in a superposition of both life and death.…