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Meta has begun laying off employees across various departments, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs, according to people familiar with the matter. Rather than a mass, companywide layoff, these smaller cuts seem to coincide with reorganizations of specific teams, The Verge reported. Some Meta employees have started posting that they’ve been laid off. Among them is Jan Manchun Wong, who
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Meta with a $101.5 million (€91 million) fine after wrapping up an investigation into a security breach in 2019, wherein the company mistakingly stored users’ passwords in plain text, Engadget reported. Meta’s original announcement only talked about how it found some user passwords stored in plain text on its servers in January
Meta has confirmed that its restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase, TechCrunch reported.
Creators are unhappy with Meta’s decision on Tuesday to shut down its Spark platform, which allowed third parties to build augmented reality (AR) effects, TechCrunch reported. In posts published to the Meta Spark Community on Facebook, creators are posting about their disappointment in Meta’s decision, noting that for some them, the move will put them out of work - and
Meta’s ambitious plans to develop the metaverse is still costing the company billions of dollars a quarter, CNBC reported.
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent, Reuters reported.
Meta posted “Expanding our open source large language models responsibly”. From the Meta blog: