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Meta has just lost a multimillion-dollar legal battle over its failure to prevent children being sold on its platforms. Here's how we uncovered evidence that became part of the case against itIt started with a tipoff. I was reporting on the trafficking and exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf when a source I had known for more than a decade reached out. They told me that child sexual abuse trafficking in the US was surging. As the Covid pandemic pushed predators online, some were using Facebook and Instagram to buy and sell children.It was 2021 and I was about to begin an investigation with Mei-Ling McNamara, a human rights journalist, that would lead to the tech company Meta losing a multimillion-pound court case in March this year. The company had not yet rebranded and was known as Facebook, and there had not been any reporting on how children were being trafficked on its platforms. Experts from anti-trafficking nonprofit organisations and an American law enforcement official talked me through t...

Meta has paused work with Mercor after a major breach linked to LiteLLM, while OpenAI investigates potential exposure. Importance Rank:  1 read more...

Facebook-Gründer Mark Zuckerberg lässt unter seinem Anwesen in Kalifornien einen gewaltigen Bunker anlegen. Der unterirdische Bereich wird gerade eingerichtet....

The two companies have a lot in common....

Justiz - Die Debatte um den Schutz von Kindern vor sozialen Medien erreicht den Heimatmarkt der Tech-Konzerne....

This week in rech: Anthropic buys Coefficient Bio; Meta aids blind runner; Intel invests; Durov slams Apple. Importance Rank:  1 read more...

Jeffrey Stephen Wigand revealed how tobacco companies targeted children; now he sees similar marketing by big techA key whistleblower in the tobacco industry's landmark trials of the 1990s has been watching big tech's recent court battles closely. Jeffrey Stephen Wigand, a biochemist who helped reveal how tobacco companies targeted children and hid just how addictive cigarettes were, has been struck with a feeling of familiarity. Last week's verdict in a major social media trial that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products has only strengthened comparisons to the legal crackdown on big tobacco. Wigand sees it, too. His first thought, as he learned about the litigation in California, was that social media companies, through their advertisements, were trying to addict children – much like the tobacco industry did.A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube to be negligent last week. Plaintiffs' lawyers relied heavily on internal documents and correspondence to demonstrate that company ...

Die Gesetzesbasis zur anlasslosen Suche nach Missbrauchsmaterial ist erloschen. Google, Meta Microsoft & Co. halten dennoch an der umstrittenen Praxis fest....

Große Unternehmen haben jahrelang ihre mittleren Führungsebenen ausgedünnt. Nun definiert Meta einige dieser Rollen neu....

Facebook owner Meta Platforms has recruited a Chinese industry veteran with experience across artificial intelligence, humanoid robots and extended reality to lead a new hardware team in its superintelligence unit. Xu Rui, a former product manager at Tencent Holdings and TikTok owner ByteDance, would lead a team developing AI devices separately from Meta's Reality Labs division, which was responsible for the company's popular smart glasses and virtual reality headsets, US outlet Business Insider......

Facebook-Gründer Mark Zuckerberg lässt unter seinem Anwesen in Kalifornien einen gewaltigen Bunker anlegen. Der unterirdische Bereich wird gerade eingerichtet....

Forget Temu's "Bugatti" Knockoff. Texas Man 3D-Printed A Lamborghini Aventador Body Forget ordering a $30,000 "Bugatti" knockoff from Chinese e-commerce websites like Temu. A private seller in Texas is now offering what appears to be a fully 3D-printed Lamborghini Aventador body on Facebook Marketplace, highlighting how 3D printing is revolutionizing custom vehicle manufacturing. "This is a fully 3D-printed Lamborghini Aventador project that gives you a huge head start. It includes the complete body, front frame, rear frame, and monocoque already printed and sized to Aventador dimensions," the listing stated. The 3D-printed Aventador body is listed for $5,000. But the price jumps to $7,500 if buyers want the exterior and interior all glued together, or $8,500 if they want the frame pieces included in the gluing. To complete the build, the seller says the body will still need to be reinforced with fiberglass, mounted to a steel frame, and fitted with a drivetrain,...

Microsoft and Meta are making large capital investments in 2026....

How Social Media Verdicts Could Upend Tech Industry Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Two major court verdicts last week finding social media giants Meta and YouTube liable for harm to users could send shock waves through the tech industry. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, a jury in Los Angeles on March 25 found both companies liable for making their platforms addictive and deleterious to the mental health of young users. The 20-year-old plaintiff, referred to as “Kaley G.M.” or only her initials K.G.M. during trial, testified that she had become addicted to social media at a young age and that it negatively affected her mental health. Jurors ultimately decided that Meta was more liable for harming K.G.M., giving the tech giant 70 percent of the responsibility, or $2.1 million of the total $3 million in punitive damages, while YouTube shouldered 30 percent, or $900,000. An additional $3 million in compensatory damages were recommended by jurors to be paid by Meta and YouTube—the...

Rokid, the Chinese AI glasses and augmented reality company, positioning itself as primary competitor to Ray-Ban Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) glasses, is making a calculated move into America's most competitive tech arena Importance Rank:  1 read more...

Mark Zuckerberg struggled with social skills, leading to awkwardness in early interactions. He later improved but still faces robot jokes. Importance Rank:  1 read more...

Microsoft, IBM, AMD, and Intel make key AI and semiconductor moves, including in-house model development, dual-architecture hardware, and full ownership of Fab 34. Importance Rank:  1 read more...

Trotz Klagen und KI-Zweifeln sieht Morgan Stanley enormes Kurspotenzial bei Meta und erklärt die Aktie zum Top-Pick im Internetsektor. Meta-Papiere haben seit Jahresbeginn rund 19 Prozent an Wert verloren. Auslöser waren neben makroökonomischen Sorgen vor allem zwei aufeinanderfolgende Klagen in der vergangenen Woche, die neue Unsicherheit über regulatorische Risiken und die Zukunft des Werbegeschäfts des ......

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it....

Former Meta trust & safety lead introduces a new standard for predictable, compliant generative AIOAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Moonbounce, the AI control engine that ensures systems behave exactly as designed at any scale, today launched with $12 million in funding. Lead investors include Amplify Partners and StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP), with participation from angel investors PrimeSet and Josh Leslie, former CEO of Cumulus Networks and Gremlin. As generative AI scales across industries, traditional content moderation approaches based on retroactive review, rigid policies, and manual oversight cannot keep pace with systems that are making thousands of decisions per second. Operational, reputational, and regulatory exposure grows alongside a business in the face of moderation uncertainty. Moonbounce closes that gap with its patented control engine that converts content policies into consistent, predictable AI behavior. “Most companies know what they want their AI or platform to do. The hard part ...