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Facebook is testing an Instagram-like Explore tab and introducing a new video tab for Reels
06 Oct

Facebook is testing an Instagram-like Explore tab and introducing a new video tab for Reels

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Meta just announced several updates coming to Facebook during the company’s IRL event in Austin. It's testing an Explore tab and adding a new video tab.Let’s start with the Explore tab. If you’ve ever perused Instagram, you likely know how exactly this will work. This tab will house “a variety of content tailored to your interests.”Meta says that the algorithm has been designed to serve up “content that doesn’t just entertain, but helps you dive deeper into your interests.” Here’s hoping I get nothing but content about wild traversal strategies in . In any event, the new Explore tab is…
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Facebook is pushing ‘local’ content and events to try to win back young adults
06 Oct

Facebook is pushing ‘local’ content and events to try to win back young adults

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Meta has spent the last few years saying that “young adults” are crucial to the future of Facebook. Now, the company is a number of changes to its 20-year-old social network in an effort to get younger users to spend more time in the app.The updates include a new “local” section in the Facebook app that aims to surface information relevant to your local community, a renewed focus on events planned on the service and a new “Communities” feature for Messenger. The changes, Meta claims, will help young adults “explore their interests and connect with the world beyond their close…
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Meta’s Movie Gen looks like a huge leap forward for AI video (but you can’t use it yet)
06 Oct

Meta’s Movie Gen looks like a huge leap forward for AI video (but you can’t use it yet)

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At this point, you probably either love the idea of making realistic videos with generative AI, or you think it's a morally bankrupt endeavor that devalues artists and will usher in a disastrous era of deepfakes we'll never escape from. It's hard to find middle ground. Meta isn't going to change minds with Movie Gen, its latest video creation AI model, but no matter what you think of AI media creation, it could end up being a significant milestone for the industry.Movie Gen can produce realistic videos alongside music and sound effects at 16 fps or 24 fps at up…
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EU court rules social networks can’t use personal data forever
06 Oct

EU court rules social networks can’t use personal data forever

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Once again, the European Union has issued a ruling preventing Meta from going too crazy with user information. The top court in the EU ruled that limits must be put in place for how long Meta and other social media networks can use people’s information for ad targeting strategies. reported that the EU’s highest court sided with an earlier opinion published in April by a court adviser. The previous ruling also urged for limits on the amount of time companies could retain customers’ personal data for the purpose of targeting advertising.The rulings referred its retention guidelines to the bloc’s established…
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Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules
04 Oct

Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules

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Europe’s most famous privacy activist, Max Schrems, landed another blow against Meta today after the EU’s top court ruled the tech giant cannot exploit users’ public statements about their sexual orientation for online advertising.Since 2014, Schrems has complained of seeing advertising on Meta platforms targeting his sexual orientation. Schrems claims, based on data he obtained from the company, that advertisers using Meta can deduce his sexuality from proxies, such as his app logins or website visits. Meta denies it showed Schrems personalized ads based on his off-Facebook data, and the company has long said it excludes any sensitive data it…
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Meta’s Movie Gen Makes Convincing AI Video Clips
04 Oct

Meta’s Movie Gen Makes Convincing AI Video Clips

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Meta just announced its own media-focused AI model, called Movie Gen, that can be used to generate realistic video and audioclips.The company shared multiple 10-second clips generated with Movie Gen, including a Moo Deng-esque baby hippo swimming around, to demonstrate its capabilities. While the tool is not yet available for use, this Movie Gen announcement comes shortly after its Meta Connect event, which showcased new and refreshed hardware and the latest version of its large language model, Llama 3.2.Going beyond the generation of straightforward text-to-video clips, the Movie Gen model can make targeted edits to an existing clip, like adding…
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Meta’s smart glasses can now tell you where you parked your car
03 Oct

Meta’s smart glasses can now tell you where you parked your car

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Meta is rolling out some of the features to its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses for users in the US and Canada. CTO Andrew Bosworth on Threads that today's update to the glasses includes more natural language recognition, meaning the stilted commands of "Hey Meta, look and tell me" should be gone. Users will be able to engage the AI assistant without the "look and" portion of the invocation.Most of the other AI tools showed off during last month's Connect event are also arriving on the frames today. That includes voice messages, timers and reminders. The glasses can also be used…
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Threads will show how many followers you have in the fediverse
01 Oct

Threads will show how many followers you have in the fediverse

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Meta has been steadily improving Threads’ compatibility with the fediverse over the last year. Now, the company is taking another significant step with an update that allows users to see more details about their followers and interactions with people from other servers across the fediverse.Up to now, Threads has surfaced replies from Mastodon and other servers, and has alerted users to likes on their posts from other fediverse apps. But there was no way for a Threads user to see details about their followers from those services. That’s now changing, Adam Mosseri explained in a post.With the update, anyone who…
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Inside Two Years of Turmoil at Big Tech’s Anti-Terrorism Group
30 Sep

Inside Two Years of Turmoil at Big Tech’s Anti-Terrorism Group

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The four tech giants have presided over the consortium since they announced it in 2016, when Western governments were berating them for allowing Islamic State to post gruesome videos of journalists and humanitarians being beheaded. Now with a staff of eight, GIFCT—which the board organized as a US nonprofit in 2019 after the Christchurch massacre—is one of the groups through which tech competitors are meant to work together to address discrete online harms, including child abuse and the illicit trade of intimate images.The efforts have helped bring down some unwelcome content, and pointing to the work can help companies stave…
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Advanced AI chatbots are less likely to admit they don’t have all the answers
28 Sep

Advanced AI chatbots are less likely to admit they don’t have all the answers

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Researchers have spotted an apparent downside of smarter chatbots. Although AI models predictably become more accurate as they advance, they’re also more likely to (wrongly) answer questions beyond their capabilities rather than saying, “I don’t know.” And the humans prompting them are more likely to take their confident hallucinations at face value, creating a trickle-down effect of confident misinformation.“They are answering almost everything these days,” José Hernández-Orallo, professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, told Nature. “And that means more correct, but also more incorrect.” Hernández-Orallo, the project lead, worked on the study with his colleagues at the Valencian…
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