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06.04.26 - 11:00
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′It started with a tip-off′: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram (The Guardian)
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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...
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05.04.26 - 16:24
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′I always considered social media evil′: big tobacco whistleblower on tech′s addictive products (The Guardian)
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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 ...
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05.04.26 - 10:54
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Who is Xu Rui, the ex-ByteDance executive tapped by Meta to lead AI hardware? (SCMP)
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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......
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05.04.26 - 05:30
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Forget Temu′s "Bugatti" Knockoff. Texas Man 3D-Printed A Lamborghini Aventador Body (ZeroHedge)
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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,...
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