Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

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У меня такое устойчивое ощущение, что Facebook разрабатывают все разработчики компании примерно также, как трое из Простоквашино письмо писали. Сначала он предлагает — сохраните логин в браузере, чтобы в следующий раз просто кликнуть по картинке. И вот мы имеем браузер с такой картинкой на ноутбуке, который у меня 5 лет, из которых последние 5 лет 90% времени находится на одном и том же месте с одним и тем же IP. Сессия протухла, поэтому я кликаю по картинке. Следующую часть писал другой — поэтому мне очень... →

Two of my friends died within the last three years. By some coincidence, both of their birthdays fall in the beginning of July. So, twice this week, Facebook has reminded me to write “happy birthday” to two people who will never respond. Facebook’s algorithms can’t comprehend death. All it knows is there was a time […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Preliminary findings by the European Commission investigating a controversial binary choice Meta has forced on regional users of its social neworks, Facebook and Instagram, since last fall does not comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Failure to abide by the ex ante market contestability regulation, which has applied on Meta and other so […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. However, Meta AI currently only supports English and no other local languages. The company started testing Meta AI in India across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook in April by rolling it out […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As Apple enters the AI race, it’s also looking for help from partners. During the announcement of Apple Intelligence earlier this month, Apple said it would be partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT into the revamped version of Siri. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple and Facebook’s parent company Meta are in talks […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta has been banned from launching features on Facebook and Instagram that would have collected data on voters in Spain using the social networks ahead of next month’s European Elections. The local data protection authority, the AEPD, has used emergency powers to protect local users’ privacy. Meta confirmed to TechCrunch it has complied with the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta’s Oversight Board has now extended its scope to include the company’s newest platform, Instagram Threads. Designed as an independent appeals board that hears cases and then makes precedent-setting content moderation decisions, the board to date has decided on cases like Facebook’s ban of Donald Trump, Covid-19 misinformation, the removal of breast cancer photos, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, launched an enterprise version of the prominent social network in 2015. It always seemed like a stretch for a company built on a consumer product that made most of its money from ads, making a go of it in the enterprise. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that it lasted […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Facebook and Instagram are under formal investigation in the European Union over child protection concerns, the Commission announced Thursday. The proceedings follow a raft of requests for information to parent entity Meta since the bloc’s online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), started applying on it last August. The development could be significant as […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta’s newest social network, Threads is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook’s network for a few months. Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted that the company “recently” rolled out the ability for fact-checkers to rate and mark false content on Threads. However, Mosseri didn’t share any details about when exactly the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that story. TechCrunch has learned that Meta is shuttering Workplace, a version of Facebook that had been built to enable communication among business teams […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that story. TechCrunch has learned that Meta is shuttering Workplace, a version of Facebook that had been built to enable communication among business teams […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The European Union announced Tuesday it suspects Meta’s social networking platforms, Facebook and Instagram, of breaking the bloc’ rules for larger platforms in relation to election integrity. The Commission has opened the formal infringement proceedings to investigate Meta under the the Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and content moderation framework. Reminder: Penalties for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta’s move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace the fediverse only to shut it down, shifting people back to its proprietary platforms and decimating startups building in the space? Will it bring its advertising empire to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Though many eyes are on space as orbit develops into a thriving business ecosystem, Radical is keeping things a little closer to the ground — but not too close. Its high-altitude, solar-powered aircraft aim to succeed where Facebook’s infamous Aquila failed by refining the tech and embracing more markets. It’s hard to believe that Facebook’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As India kicks off the world’s biggest election, which starts on April 19 and runs through June 1, the electoral landscape is overshadowed by misinformation. The country — which has more than 830 million internet users and is home to the largest user base for social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram — is already […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

New AI models from Meta are making waves in technology circles. The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company’s Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open-source, helping them stand apart from competing offerings from OpenAI and other well-known names. Meta’s new Llama models have differently sized underlying datasets, with the Llama […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta’s making several big moves today to promote its AI services across its platform. The company has upgraded its AI chatbot with its newest Large Language Model, Llama 3, and it is now running it in the search bar of its four major apps, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Alongside this, the company launched other […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →