Federal Judge Rules Meta’s Instagram and WhatsApp Purchases Did Not Stifle Competition
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Meta did not illegally stifle competition when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp. The decision marks Big Tech’s first major victory against antitrust enforcement that began during President Donald Trump’s first term. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission had sought to force … ⌘ Read more
While Meta Crawls the Web for AI Training Data, Bruce Ediger Pranks Them with Endless Bad Data
From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:
Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user
agent string of
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate.
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WhatsApp Launching Third-Party Chat Support Across EU Countries
WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
WhatsApp parent company Meta is required by the DMA to make its messaging platform interoperable with other third-party services, and Meta says the first apps that WhatsApp will support are [BirdyChat](http … ⌘ Read more
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Plans To Exit To Launch Startup
According to the Financial Times (paywalled), Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, a deep-learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, is reportedly leaving the company to launch his own startup. Reuters reports: The owner of Facebook and Instagram has significantly increased its investments in artificial intelligence, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg r … ⌘ Read more
Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on ‘world models’
Article URL: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/metas-chief-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-depart-and-launch-ai-start-focused-world-models
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897271
Points: 502
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Meta Is Killing Off the External Facebook Like Button
Meta is retiring Facebook’s external Like and Share buttons for third-party websites on February 10, 2026, officially closing the book on a once-dominant traffic driver as usage declines and Facebook’s role within Meta continues to shrink.Engadget reports: The blog post from Meta explains that site admins shouldn’t have to take any additional steps as a result of the … ⌘ Read more
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach around $13 billion between 2025 and 2027, almost twice the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, according to telecommunications data provider TeleGeography. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft now represent about 50% of the overall market, up from a neglig … ⌘ Read more
Bombshell Report Exposes How Meta Relied On Scam Ad Profits To Fund AI
“Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them,” writes Ars Technica, citing a lengthy report from Reuters.
Reuters reports that Meta “for at least three years failed to identify and stop an avalanche of ads that … ⌘ Read more
Leaving Meta and PyTorch
Article URL: https://soumith.ch/blog/2025-11-06-leaving-meta-and-pytorch.md.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843948
Points: 500
# Comments: 112 ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: AI Bots Can’t Use WhatsApp Anymore. So… Who Are They Going to Talk To?
Meta just closed the gates on AI chatbots. I think this is an early warning.
Starting January 15, 2026, [WhatsApp will ban all third-party general-purpose AI chatbots from its platform](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18 … ⌘ Read more
Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, EU commission rules
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Offline interactions predict voting patterns better than online networks, finds study
According to a new study, offline social networks, revealed by co-location data, predict U.S. voting patterns more accurately than online social connections or residential sorting. Michele Tizzoni and colleagues analyzed large-scale data on co-location patterns from Meta’s Data for Good program, which collates anonymized data collected from people who enabled location services on the Facebook smartphone a … ⌘ Read more
Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs 👌 Demo of what the starter kit looks like here – Basic features include:
- Clean layout & typography
- Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
- Accessible copy-code button
- “On this page” collapsible TOC
- RSS, sitemap, robots
- Archives, tags, tag cloud
- Draft support (hidden from lists/feeds)
- Open Graph (OG) & Twitter card meta (default image + per-post overrides)
- Ready-to-use 404 page
As well as custom routes (redirects, rewrites, etc) to support canonical URLs or redirecting old URLs as well as new zs external command capability itself that now lets you do things like:
$ zs newpost
to help kick-start the creation of a new post with all the right “stuff”™ ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR 🤞
Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
Article URL: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201872
Points: 500
# Comments: 214 ⌘ Read more
Data is code
Meta: no Forth or concatenative tag, but in the future hopefully search will find it via this.
VectorVFS: your filesystem as a vector database
VectorVFS is a lightweight Python package that transforms your Linux filesystem into a vector database by leveraging the native VFS (Virtual File System) extended attributes. Rather than maintaining a separate index or external database, VectorVFS stores vector embeddings directly alongside each file—turning your existing directory structure into an efficient and semantically searchable embedding store. VectorVFS supports Meta’s Percepti … ⌘ Read more
FTC v. Meta (The Case That Could Break Up Facebook)
How likely is it that Meta is found to be a Monopoly and gets broken up? ⌘ Read more
Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts
Article URL: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655603
Points: 502
# Comments: 300 ⌘ Read more
The Llama 4 herd
Article URL: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595585
Points: 506
# Comments: 265 ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Supporting XMPP Standard Foundation’s open letter to Meta for true interop
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support … ⌘ Read more
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@kat it was like.... meta.json was corrupt or well it was empty actually whatever idk. ended up moving that elsewhere temporarily, rebuilding the binary, restarting server... and it worked?!?!? shit was confusing
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@prologic@twtxt.net huh interesting! yeah i was stumped for a bit i was like WHAT config.json file are these logs talking about…. but then it worked after i moved the old meta.json file lol!
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HI EVERYONE MY INSTANCE DIED FOR A WHILE AND MY LIFE TURNED TO SHIT SO I COULDN'T FIX IT BUT I JUST DID YAYYYYYYYY
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz it was like…. meta.json was corrupt or well it was empty actually whatever idk. ended up moving that elsewhere temporarily, rebuilding the binary, restarting server… and it worked?!?!? shit was confusing
If we don’t keep insisting on simplify and “The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One.”, then people should just use ActivityPub-based software like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc. which are getting a lot of attention and uses migrating to the fediverse from meta/x here in Denmark over the last couple of months.
For point 1 and others using the metadata tags. we have implemented them in yarnd as [lang=en][meta=data]
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43125840
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Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971446
Points: 518
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Meta: Ending DEl, Ending “Fact Checking”, Allowing LGBT Criticism & Vaccine Skepticism
Facebook employees “in meltdown” over changes which allow people to say “LGBT are mentally ill”. ⌘ Read more
Social media is in a worrying state. TikTok in the hands of autocratic China, X (formerly Twitter) in the hands of Elon Musk, who gets crazier every day and hangs out too much with Donald Trump (and recommends a fascist party in Germany), and now Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is also joining the group of friends around Trump and removing fact checks in the name of “free speech”. What could possibly go wrong? ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Five Years of Entropy Arbitrage https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/08/five-years.html #blog #celebration #meta
My next Fediverse migration?
I currently use GoToSocial (with my numeronym domain) next to my blog, but it always confuses me where to post what. That’s why I want to move to my blog as my sole Fediverse identity. But before that, I wanted to implement another Fediverse feature in GoBlog: support for the new fediverse:creator meta tag. ⌘ Read more
[ANN] [PROPOSAL] Add optional is_gift and txs parameter and create a new gift standard
There is currently no easy and safe standard way to gift Monero to people around you. It is possible to gift a wallet containing money. However, malicious people can use this to trick people into using the wallet they gifted them and steal the money after the recipient puts in more money, so this is unacceptable.
Link: https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1100
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What if i want to delete avatar? Im deleted avatar meta field but still see avatar on twtxt.net
How to Run Llama LLM on Mac, Locally
Llama is a powerful large language model (LLM) developed by Meta (yes, the same Meta that is Facebook), that is able to process and generate human-like text. It’s quite similar to ChatGPT, but what is unique about Llama is that you can run it locally, directly on your computer. With a little effort, you’ll be … Read More ⌘ Read more
I admit I’ve always compromised on this way too much myself, always to this day having Facebook Messenger just to communicate in my families group chats. Sure I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time, I can completely cut it off from network access any time as well, I can have a lot of rudimentary control over it, I use it as sparingly as possible, but it doesn’t change the fact everytime I use it we’re funneling private convos through bloody Meta’s servers and trackers etc.
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Open Source A.I. Definition to include Closed, Secret Data
The Open Source Initiative – backed by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta – is pushing for a “Closed” definition of “Open Source Artificial Intelligence.” More from The Lunduke Journal: http://lunduke.com ⌘ Read more
Workshop in Barcelona: How to Build a Low-tech Website
Image: Workshop in Barcelona.
Website technology is becoming increasingly complex and energy intensive, with big companies like Meta and Google leading the dance. Is this necessary? What does it really take to get our content online?
Low←tec … ⌘ Read more
[Updated] Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard
Updated: The
Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard
has been updated. It will now place the meta charset tag before the title in the head section (so that it will
be in the first 1 KB of your page even if you have a long title). In addition, if you select HTML5 as the output type,
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org its a hierarchy key value format. I designed it for the network peering tools i use.. I can grant access to different parts of the tree to other users.. kinda like directory permissions. a basic example of the format is:
@namespace
# multi
# line
# comment
root :value
# example space comment
@namespace.name space-tag
# attribute comments
attribute attr-tag :value for attribute
# attribute with multiple
# lines of values
foo :bar
:bin
:baz
repeated :value1
repeated :value2
each @ starts the definition of a namespace kinda like [name] in ini format. It can have comments that show up before. then each attribute is key :value and can have their own # comment lines.
Values can be multi line.. and also repeated..
the namespaces and values can also have little meta data tags added to them.
the service can define webhooks/mqtt topics to be notified when the configs are updated. That way it can deploy the changes out when they are updated.
If we call Alphabet “Google” instead, we could have:
BAG MAM
BAM GAM
If we also replace Meta with “Facebook” it could be:
FB-MAGA
FAB-MAG
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So the six #DMA gatekeepers are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft.
Whats the FAANG / GAFAM equivalent acronym for those six?
MAMBAA?
AMAMBA?
BAAAMM? ⌘ Read more