Cambridge Brothel Case: What's the Point? Abandoning the "sex slave" narrative exposes the hollowness at the center of cases like this. Reason · Apr 9, 2025
Meta's new rules block teenagers from livestreaming on Instagram It's the latest step in the company's attempts to expand safety measures. Fortune · Apr 9, 2025
Instagram to launch long-awaited iPad app as it takes on TikTok: report Instagram may finally release a native iPad app, offering a better user experience for content creators and social media managers Evening Standard · Apr 9, 2025
WhatsApp's Meta AI sparks EU privacy row as users unable to disable Amid a growing backlash against the AI update, Meta has stressed that the tool is optional Evening Standard · Apr 9, 2025
You might get a free Meta Quest 3 to use on your next flight, but I'm not keen on the advertising it'll serve you The next time you fly you could be handed a Meta Quest 3 to keep you entertained. Just look out for the ads. TechRadar · Apr 9, 2025
Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer smart glasses review: full of AI promise but sub-par camera performance The Meta AI technology offered on this pair of smart glasses is intriguing, but the glasses themselves lack the ability to produce good quality photos and video Digital Camera World · Apr 9, 2025
WhatsApp issues urgent update over ‘spoofing’ hack risk Security experts urge WhatsApp users to not open certain images and update the app immediately The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2025
Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos have lost $80 billion of net worth since Trump's 'Liberation Day' Billionaire backers of President Donald Trump are watching their fortunes tumble as tariffs take a toll on Big Tech. Fortune · Apr 9, 2025
Meta’s Quarterly Earnings Preview: What You Need to Know Meta is scheduled to report its Q1 earnings later this month, with analysts projecting robust double-digit profit growth, signaling continued momentum in the company’s financial performance. Barchart · Apr 9, 2025
US Takes Aim At Zuckerberg's Social Media Kingdom Barring any eleventh-hour intervention, social media juggernaut Meta will stand trial next week facing serious US government allegations that it abused its market power to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp before they could become competitors. International Business Times · Apr 9, 2025
Author Of Explosive Meta Memoir To Star At US Senate Hearing The former Facebook employee behind a scathing book about parent company Meta will testify Wednesday before US senators keen to establish whether the social networking giant ever collaborated with the Chinese government. International Business Times · Apr 9, 2025
Intel's former CEO puts money into a little-known hardware startup that wants to make Nvidia obsolete UK-based startup Fractile wants to make Nvidia obsolete and is backed by NATO and Intel's former CEO. TechRadar · Apr 8, 2025
WhatsApp patches worrying vulnerability which allowed hackers to share .exe files as images The vulnerability was found in all older versions of WhatsApp software for Windows. TechRadar · Apr 8, 2025
Big Tech probes non-negotiable in US trade talks, Brussels warns Investigations into Big Tech and value-added tax will not be up for negotiation during trade talks with the United States, the European Commission has said. Euronews · Apr 8, 2025
Euronews · Apr 8, 2025 Meta to block children under 16 from livestreaming on Instagram without parental consent The measures will come out in Europe in the following months after rollout in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia first, Meta said.
The Conversation · Apr 8, 2025 The founder kings of Silicon Valley: Dual-class stock gives US social media company controllers nearly as much power as ByteDance has over TikTok When Congress passed a law in 2024 to ban TikTok unless it came under U.S. ownership, lawmakers argued that the app’s Chinese parent company posed national security concerns. The Trump administration, which had granted the viral video app a reprieve shortly after taking office in January 2025, extended that pause…
MarketBeat · Apr 8, 2025 Who Led Buybacks to End 2024? Hint: It Wasn’t Big Tech See these three stocks that were the biggest buyback spenders outside of the tech sector in Q4 2924. One plans to spend $40 billion on buybacks through 2026.
The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2025 Kids under 16 will no longer be allowed to livestream on Instagram without parental consent Instagram users under 16 won’t be able to livestream or unblur nudity in direct messages they’ve received without parental approval
The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025 Meta blocks livestreaming by teenagers on Instagram Under-16s will be barred from using the app’s Live feature unless they have parental permission
The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2025 Meta expands Instagram parental controls and brings them to Facebook The tools mean the accounts of under-16s are heavily restricted by default and require parental permission to reduce them.
Euronews · Apr 8, 2025 From a political shift to a more powerful AI: Everything to know about Meta's Llama 4 models CEO Mark Zuckerberg said "the highest performing base model in the world" is yet to come.
Euronews · Apr 8, 2025 TikTok made changes ahead of re-run of Romanian election, says EU tech chief The European Commission started an investigation into TikTok last December following reports about voter influence through social media.
Android Central · Apr 8, 2025 Meta is coming for Google and OpenAI with its fresh Llama 4 models Meta just introduced Llama 4, its next-gen batch of AI models.
Barchart · Apr 7, 2025 Stocks Settle Mixed as Chip Makers Rebound The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) Monday closed down -0.23%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.91%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +0.19%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM25 ) are up +0.30%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2025 Which Trump-supporting billionaires have lost the most in tariff markets turmoil? Wealth of world’s richest tycoons shrinks as US president’s trade war spooks investors