Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs
… Inside Meta, the imminent cuts are among several concerns that have sunk morale to unprecedented depths, according to 16 current and former employees who recently spoke to WIRED. …
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The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs
… If they’re worthless, then why should we assume we’ll continue to have end-to-end encryption in Messenger and WhatsApp?” Meta's decision to revoke end-to-end encryption for Instagram chat seems to have been particularly alarming for researchers and privacy advocates because of the company's stated … …
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
… The company is working to find additional projects for those impacted, according to internal conversations viewed by WIRED. Mercor contractors were not told exactly why their Meta projects were being paused. …
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
… For its part, Confer is still a new project, and Marlinspike’s blog post did not provide specific details about how exactly the collaboration with Meta will work or what the specific goals are for integration. Neither Marlinspike nor Meta provided WIRED with additional comment ahead of publication. …
It Sure Seems Like These Instagram Ads Want You to Do Cocaine
… While some customers may use it that way, we leave that to individual interpretation.” Meta spokesperson Erica Sackin tells WIRED that it is investigating a number of the brand accounts mentioned in this article. …
Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
… In a statement, Meta spokesperson Chris Sgro says, “These allegations misrepresent the reality of our work and we will fight them.” Speaking with WIRED, Ben Winters, CFA’s director of AI and data privacy, says others can find more dubious ads just by searching Meta’s ad library using key words like… …
You Can Get Some of Your Nudes Removed From the Internet Under a New Law
… Cuevas says in those cases, keeping good documentation, including links to the offending content, is especially important, because there’s a concern that if “submitters fail to just do one of these things, that would be a shield for the company potentially to not comply with the request or to delay… …
The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep
… It’s common for Instagram accounts to do street photography in the area and she prides herself on her fashion—that day, she was in “a nice sundress and a very big stylish hat,” she tells WIRED. “It was all very cute until the end of the conversation, when one of them was like, ‘So, these glasses ha… …
Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR ‘for the Foreseeable Future’
… When asked for comment on Bosworth’s announcement, Meta pointed to his Instagram video but added that there will still be new features on the horizon, like virtual concerts. “Immersive 3D and 2D concerts are still accessible on Quest via the TV app found in the Quest Store,” a Meta representative w… …
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
… Horizon Worlds is Meta's metaverse play. It's this world that they created that's supposed to be the showcase for the metaverse. And the way to experience it, if you are really committed to VR, is going to be the Meta Quest headset. …