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Wix Is the Latest To Cut 20% of Jobs While Citing AI
Wix is laying off roughly 20% of its workforce, about 1,000 employees, as CEO Avishai Abrahami cites both the rapid evolution of AI and currency pressure from a stronger Israeli shekel against the dollar. The web developer joins a growing list of tech companies making similar cuts, including Amazon, Block, Cisco, Cloudflare, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and Intuit. Fast Company re … ⌘ Read more

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Supreme Court Lets Vermont’s Meta Lawsuit Proceed, Opening Door To 50-State Legal Wave
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users, a decision that comes as social media companies increasingly face legal scrutiny. Parent company Meta appealed after Vermont’s highest co … ⌘ Read more

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Meta To Start Testing AI Subscription Services
Meta will begin testing paid subscriptions for its Meta AI app and website, with a $7.99/month Meta One Plus plan and a more capable $19.99/month Meta One Premium plan offering. The test will start next month in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia as Meta looks for AI revenue beyond advertising while continuing to offer a free tier. CNBC reports: Naomi Gleit, the head of product at M … ⌘ Read more

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Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s right-hand man
By Meghan Bobrowsky

Tensions were running high at Meta Platforms.

For weeks, rumours circulated that the company was planning a large layoff as it poured tens of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. Then, employees were told their keystrokes and mouse clicks would be recorded to help train AI agents to use computers. ⌘ Read more

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Pavona Aims To Provide A Certification-Ready, Open-Source Silicon Ecosystem
GlobalPlatform announced today the launch of Pavona as an open-source silicon ecosystem backed by founding members such as Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, Winbond, and the University of Oxford, among others… ⌘ Read more

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Meta’s CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices
Back in 2021 Facebook open-sourced CacheLib as a new caching engine. Back in 2021 it was done to help scale services with non-volatile memory caching to offset increasing DRAM costs at the time. Now in 2026, DRAM memory prices are astronomical compared to 2021 pricing given the AI surge. And, surprisingly, Meta is out with a new CacheLib release after being absent the past two years… ⌘ Read more

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AI ‘Crashes the Party’ at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival - Including Multi-Year Meta Partnership
AI “crashed the party” at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The festival exposed “the fault lines reshaping cinema,” their article argues, including how “AI is here — and the industry has stopped pretending otherwise.”

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TabulaBili-Plus – 让 B 站暂时忘记你是谁[Chrome]
这是一个让 B 站首页重新回到“新用户热门推荐”模式的浏览器扩展。安装之后,首页不再根据你的观看习惯、兴趣偏好来推荐内容,而是直接显示当前热门视频,用来摆脱个性化推荐算法。@Appinn 来自发现频道,tjsky 同学的自荐:https://meta.appinn.net/t/topic/85526Read more

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Jobabbau befeuert Widerstand gegen KI
Der Jobabbau im Zuge des breiteren Einsatzes von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) geht weiter: Die britische Großbank Standard Chartered kündigte an, über 15 Prozent ihrer Stellen zu streichen und stattdessen auf KI-Agenten zu setzen. Meta, Mutterkonzern von Facebook, will ebenfalls Tausende Stellen streichen. Mittlerweile formiert sich in den USA starker Widerstand gegen KI und auch gegen die dafür nötigen Rechenzentren. ⌘ Read more

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Before Mass Layoffs, Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers To Focus On AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta told employees on Monday that it was reassigning 7,000 workers to focus on new initiatives around artificial intelligence, the latest change in a company transformation spurred by the powerful technology. Employees will be moved to four new organizations focused on building new A.I. … ⌘ Read more

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Meta Layoffs Stress Harsh AI Reality Inside Zuckerberg’s Company
Meta is expected to begin cutting about 8,000 jobs this week as it pours more money into AI infrastructure and looks to “offset” other investments, with additional layoffs reportedly possible later this year. According to CNBC, the morale has worsened inside the company. “Internally, there’s an emerging sense of dread across wide swaths of the comp … ⌘ Read more

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ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
ArXiv says it will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing AI-generated slop, such as hallucinated citations, placeholder text, or chatbot meta-comments left in the manuscript.

“If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that out … ⌘ Read more

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Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it’s like inside a company where “everyone is unhappy.” ⌘ Read more

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Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company’s recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their computers, according to photos of the pamphlets seen by Reuters. The flyers, which appeared in meeting rooms, on vending machines and … ⌘ Read more

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NYT: ‘Meta’s Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable’
“Meta’s embrace of AI is making its employees miserable,” reports the New York Times.

And “After Meta said late last month that it would start tracking employees’ computer use, hundreds of workers spoke up.” (One employee even told Meta’s CTO in an internal post, “Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning.”
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Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia’s school for elite hackers, and more. ⌘ Read more

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OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta’s Content-Aware Compression Software
Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there’s finally a new OpenZL software release available… ⌘ Read more

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A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure. ⌘ Read more

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Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Encouraged’ Meta’s Copyright Infringement
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that Zuckerberg “personally authorized and actively encouraged” massive copyright infringement by using pirated books, journal articles, and web-scraped material to train Meta’s Llama AI systems. Meta denies wrongdoing and says it w … ⌘ Read more

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中国高校分布地图:全国近 3000 所高校数据可视化工具
你知道你所在的省,有多少所大学吗?你所在的城市,都有哪些学校?985、211、双一流,都分布在哪些地方?哪些城市高校更集中? 来自发现频道的 @花野猫 同学,推荐了自己的新项目:https://meta.appinn.net/t/topic/84538 他能干什么? 高校数据可视化工具 这是我开发的 ⌘ Read more

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Carbon Pollution Is Making Food Less Nutritious, Risking the Health of Billions
A new meta-analysis found nutrients in food decreased over the last 40 years, reports the Washington Post. “Many of humanity’s most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago.”

“The invisible culprit behind this damaging phenomenon? Carbo … ⌘ Read more

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What if Tech Company Layoffs Aren’t All About AI?
“Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley’s AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less,” writes the Washington Post:

Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outp … ⌘ Read more

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China Blocks Meta’s $2 Billion Takeover of AI Startup Manus
China has blocked Meta’s planned $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, ordering the deal withdrawn after months of scrutiny from both Beijing and Washington. “The decision to prohibit foreign investment in Manus was made in accordance with laws and regulations,” reports CNBC, citing the National Development and Reform Commission. “It added that it has … ⌘ Read more

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Meta Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce
Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. “We’re doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making,” said Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer. The company had almost 79,000 employees at the start of the y … ⌘ Read more

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Meta To Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes For AI Training Data
Reuters reports that Meta plans to start collecting U.S.-based employees’ mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screen snapshots to train AI agents that can better learn how humans use computers. The tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), will reportedly “not be used for performance assessme … ⌘ Read more

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Audit Finds Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines. According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set a … ⌘ Read more

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Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta’s With Several Styles, Oval Cameras
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is developing display-free AI smart glasses aimed at rivaling Meta’s Ray-Bans, with multiple frame styles, a distinctive oval camera design, and tight iPhone integration. “The idea is to unveil the product at the end of 2026 or early the following year, with the actual release coming in 2027,” writ … ⌘ Read more

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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, warning that the feature – reportedly known inside the c … ⌘ Read more

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings
According to the Financial Times, Meta is developing an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg that could interact with employees using his voice, image, mannerisms, and public statements, “so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.” The Verge reports: Meta may start allowing creators … ⌘ Read more

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