jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
https://thx4data.de/en/meta-files-hub-en.html
keeping an eye on those who watch us 😎
#facebook #meta #socialmedia #metapixel #dataprivacy
Haha, the first reply on zuck zuck is just genius
https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DVrwsE5EdSz
"Cropped and uncropped:"
#WhatsApp by #Meta seems to be a dominant #messaging app.
Do you use it?
Thank you for taking part and sharing/boosting!
| I use WhatsApp exclusively: | 0 |
| I use WhatsApp alongside other messaging apps: | 0 |
| I use other messaging apps exclusively: | 0 |
Closes in 5:13:12:26
qwant news | Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI
Anthropic announced that, effective April 4 2026 at 12 p.m. PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third‑party tools such as OpenClaw. The company says the move is meant to “better manage capacity” and to focus on customers who use its own products and API. Existing subscribers can still access Claude through discounted extra‑usage bundles or a one‑time credit equal to their monthly plan, and they may request a full refund. The change sparked a flood of reactions on X, with many users complaining that the policy was a “rug‑pull” and others noting that the subscription model was never intended for heavy third‑party load.
At the same time, OpenAI is undergoing a senior‑leadership reshuffle. COO Brad Lightcap is shifting to a “special projects” role that will oversee an internal “DeployCo” team aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of its AI services. Meanwhile, CMO Kate Rouch is stepping down to focus on cancer treatment, and fellow executive Fidji Simo is taking a medical leave. The changes have been widely reported, with analysts questioning whether the moves signal a broader strategic pivot as OpenAI grapples with rapid growth and new competition.
Other headlines on the Techmeme snapshot include Elon Musk’s requirement that banks advising on the SpaceX IPO purchase Grok subscriptions and advertise on X, and reports that Iranian strikes have knocked two AWS availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai “hard down,” prompting Amazon to de‑prioritize the regions. Additional notable items feature the U.S. CFTC suing three states over prediction‑market regulation, Microsoft’s $10 billion AI and cybersecurity investment in Japan, and the launch of Cursor 3—a new agent‑first coding platform positioned as a competitor to Claude Code and Codex. These items together paint a picture of a sector grappling with capacity limits, regulatory pressures, and an accelerating race to lock‑in AI infrastructure.
Read more: https://www.techmeme.com/260403/p22
All Content from Business Insider | Meta paused its work with AI training startup Mercor after a data breach by Kelsey Vlamis,Charles Rollet
Meta paused its work with the AI training startup Mercor.Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Meta has paused its work with Mercor and is investigating after a data breach, a person familiar said.Mercor confirmed to Business Insider that it was recently affected by a security incident.Mercor works with major companies by providing training data for AI models.Meta has paused its work with Mercor and is investigating after a recent data breach at the AI training startup, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Business Insider.
Mercor, which was valued at $10 billion in a funding round in October, works with major tech companies like Meta to train AI models with the help of thousands of human contractors and experts. Wired first reported on Friday that Meta had paused all its work with the company.
Read the original article on Business Insider
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-pauses-work-mercor-ai-training-investigating-data-breach-2026-4
Just like many other social media corporations #Reddit is planning to require biometric / ID verification* of some users.
To get ahead of this, I have prepared an alternative for everyone :)
🎉 ...and just launched our rapidly growing #DeMeta Reddit community on a journey into the #Fediverse!
People can now also DeMeta on #Lemmy:
#Privacy #News #Happy #SocialMedia #celebration #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #MetaAI #Threads #Announcement #verification #Internet
bing news | NCOSE Just Put Mark Zuckerberg on Its 2026 Dirty Dozen List
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has added Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to its 2026 “Dirty Dozen” list, naming him a major offender for facilitating online sexual exploitation of children. In a statement, NCOSE Executive Director Haley McNamara said Zuckerberg’s leadership has consistently placed growth and profit ahead of child safety, turning Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp into “breeding grounds for child sexual abuse, grooming, sextortion, and sex trafficking.” She warned that when AI, social‑media platforms, and digital services enable such abuse, executives must be called out and forced to act urgently.
The Dirty Dozen list, an annual report that spotlights the most significant contributors to sexual exploitation, also includes Amazon, Android, Apple, Google Chromebooks, Discord, Grok, Snapchat, Steam, Telegram, TikTok and X (formerly Twitter). Zuckerberg’s inclusion follows a recent civil case in which a Los Angeles jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in penalties after finding the company liable for misleading consumers about the safety of its platforms. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez called the verdict “a historic victory for every child and family” and accused Meta executives of knowingly harming children while lying to the public.
Meta’s spokesperson said the company “respectfully disagrees with the verdict and will appeal,” emphasizing that Meta works hard to keep people safe and is clear about the challenges of identifying and removing harmful content. The company pledged to continue defending itself vigorously while maintaining confidence in its record of protecting teens online. NCOSE hopes the list will help parents stay informed about platforms that pose risks to children and spur urgent action to stop the ongoing sexual exploitation facilitated by these services.
I've recently summed up my thoughts on generative "AI" on my homepage. Here's a screenshot of that section.
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says https://arstechni.ca/LKW8 #GoogleAnalytics #onlineprivacy #DoubleClick #Perplexity #adtracker #MetaPixel #Policy #google #meta #AI
BIG update for Instagram users! Meta is testing Instagram Plus, and it’s packed with features we’ve never seen before!
Imagine:
- Viewing stories anonymously
- Seeing who rewatched your clips
- Spotlighting stories to the front of the tray
The era of the "Super User" has arrived. Check out what’s coming! https://www.papertopost.com/instagram-plus-new-paid-features-meta-is-testing-in-2026/?utm_source=techhubsocial&utm_medium=social
#tech #bigtech #instagram #meta #instagramplus #subscription
The original story was posted yesterday:
Tech Crunch: WhatsApp notifies hundreds of users who installed a fake app made by government spyware maker https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/whatsapp-notifies-hundreds-of-users-who-installed-a-fake-app-that-was-actually-government-spyware/ @TechCrunch @lorenzofb
Betanews: Spyware outfit caught leveraging fake version of WhatsApp to target users https://betanews.com/article/spyware-outfit-caught-leveraging-fake-version-of-whatsapp-to-target-users/ @betanews @sofia_w_w #infosec #WhatsApp #spyware #Meta
yahoo news | Calls to Regulate Smart Glasses Are Officially Deafening
Members of the U.S. Senate aren’t the only ones demanding answers about Meta’s rumored plan to embed facial‑recognition technology in its Ray‑Ban smart glasses. Earlier this week more than 60 U.S. civil‑society organizations signed a joint letter addressed to Meta, its partner EssilorLuxottica (the maker of Ray‑Bans), the White House, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, asking for full disclosure of any such plans and their associated risks.
The letter warns that “integrating facial recognition into Meta glasses is a dangerous and reckless plan that will harm both users and the entire public,” regardless of consent, user status or awareness. It cites the potential for the technology to empower scammers, stalkers, blackmailers, child abusers and authoritarian regimes, and to generate unnecessary national‑security threats. This is the latest push for clarity; last month U.S. senators also wrote to CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting confirmation of whether the feature exists and what privacy safeguards have been considered. Although Meta has not confirmed any work on facial‑recognition, a February New York Times report said the company briefed employees about a plan to roll it out “during a dynamic political environment where many civil‑society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta has remained silent on the privacy implications, even as other controversies have emerged—most notably allegations that the firm used sensitive videos from Ray‑Ban users, including footage containing nudity and credit‑card information, to train its AI, with the content reviewed by human contractors. With mounting pressure from legislators, advocacy groups and the public, many observers doubt that Meta can continue to stay quiet for much longer, and some predict that Mark Zuckerberg could soon be called before regulators to answer for the company’s questionable business practices.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/calls-to-regulate-smart-glasses-are-officially-deafening-2000741499
I wonder if this was enabled by the third party app stores.
Meta alerts iPhone users who downloaded spyware-laced version of WhatsApp - 9to5Mac
#Meta’s new #InstagramPlus plan lets people view Stories anonymously
“'We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,' Facebook researchers wrote in an internal 2019 presentation. Still, a year after that research was shared within the company, Facebook began studying ways to entice more preteens to use its platforms."
#Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #addiction #children #adolescents #greed #profit
/4
"In 2021, Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower, revealed that the company had produced studies showing it was aware of the harmful social effects of its platforms, particularly on children. Among the revelations from the Facebook Files was internal research showing that its algorithms had promoted eating disorders and self-harm to impressionable young users."
~ Caleb Ecarma
#Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #addiction #children #adolescents
/3
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/zuckerbergs-extreme-makeover-backfires
"This is the pattern that connects the addiction case to everything else Zuckerberg has done. It is not negligence. Negligence implies you did not know. What the trial documents describe is something more deliberate: a company that knew, weighed the cost of knowing against the revenue of ignoring, and chose revenue. Every. Single. Time!"
#Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #addiction #children #adolescents #greed #profit
/2
"James Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, put it plainly after the verdict: the companies 'buried their own research showing children were being harmed, and used kids and society as guinea pigs in massive, uncontrolled, and wildly profitable experiments.' That is not an activist’s hyperbole. That is a summary of what the documents showed."
~ Kristoffer Ealy
#Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #addiction #children #adolescents #greed #profit
/1
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/mark-zuckerbergs-chickens-have-come
All Content from Business Insider | Meta is assembling an elite new AI lab for its recommendations division by Charles Rollet
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC
Meta quietly reorganized its recommendations team last fall to form an elite AI research lab.Yang Song, a former TikTok executive, heads the unit.The crucial Meta division has been adding top talent from OpenAI, Google, and Amazon.Meta is building a team of elite AI researchers to optimize the powerful algorithms that keep people's eyeballs glued to Facebook and Instagram, according to job listings and LinkedIn posts.
The team, MRS Research, is part of Meta Recommendation Systems, which runs the home feeds in Meta's apps, and the unit has already drawn talent from TikTok and Amazon. MRS builds the algorithms that determine what kinds of content people see and works closely with the company's Ads division.
Read the original article on Business Insider
#ai-talent-war #artificial-intelligence #big-tech #meta
Arint KI Morgen-Briefing | 01.04.2026
#KI #Mit #Meta #News #Whatfix #STAGWELL #arint_info #Fusemachines
RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114262003439129906
Ready for another joke? 🥁
The Irish Data Protection Commission, which is responsible for most major technology companies ( #Meta, #Google, #Apple, #OpenAI, #Microsoft,...) actually imposes fines in just 0.26% of the cases it handles. And even when a fine is imposed, the money is almost never collected. 🤡
#KI #Meta #News #Policy #Privacy #Anthropic #arint_info #Fusemachines
#KI #KULR #Meta #News #Nebius #Whatfix #Finnland #STAGWELL #arint_info #Fusemachines
#KI #KULR #Meta #News #Nebius #Whatfix #STAGWELL #Ai Factory #arint_info #Fusemachines
Heart-breaking.
Benzinga, from yesterday: Mark Zuckerberg Wealth Suffers Large Fall After Court Rulings: Meta Founder Worth $46 Billion Less In 2026 https://www.benzinga.com/markets/large-cap/26/03/51545713/mark-zuckerberg-wealth-suffers-large-fall-after-court-rulings-meta-founder-worth-46-billion-less-in-2026 #Zuckerberg #Meta
Which part of "kids can get around this" didn't you understand?
Report: "A substantial number of Australian children continued to retain accounts, create new accounts and pass platforms’ age assurance systems."
AP: Australia says Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube aren’t fully complying with child account ban https://apnews.com/article/australia-social-media-ban-children-58c50c845d96057b39529e988bd778bc @AssociatedPress #Meta #TikTok #YouTube #Google #ageverification #Instagram #Snapchat #Facebook #socialmedia
The Verge » 🤖 🌐
@theverge@c.im
Instagram tests letting you pay to view stories anonymously https://thever.ge/K8MK #SocialMedia #Instagram #Apps #Meta #News #Tech
#Meta testează 📸#Instagram Plus, un abonament cu funcții exclusive pentru utilizatorii obișnuiți.
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Chinas beispiellose Elektrifizierung schmiedet eine unangreifbare Position in strategischen Lieferketten.
Meta hopes SCOTUS piracy ruling will help it beat lawsuit over torrenting AI data https://arstechni.ca/CvjH #copyrightinfringement #classaction #AItraining #BItTorrent #torrenting #seeding #Policy #meta #AI
Linux mit systemd oder ohne?
Vielleicht ist es nur ein Sturm im Wasserglas, vielleicht aber auch ein erster Schritt in eine politisch ganz üble Richtung. Es geht darum, dass systemd, eine in vielen Linux-Distributionen enthaltene Kernkomponente, gerade einen Speicherplatz für ein Geburtsdatum erhalten hat. Systemd wird von der amerikanischen Firma RedHat (seit 2018 Tochter von IBM) gepflegt. Hat sich die von RedHat finanzierte FOSS dem politischen Druck gebeugt? Der Verdacht liegt nahe, dass diese Änderung in systemd auf die Lobby-Arbeit von META für eine verpflichtende Alterskontrolle zurückgeht. Bislang führt systemd oder auch Linux selbst keine
https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2026/03/30/linux-mit-systemd-oder-ohne/
#Allgemein #Hintergrund #antisoziale #foss #identitat #jugendschutz #linux #meta #politik #UnplugTrump #wissen
Landmark lawsuit finds that social media addiction is a feature, not a bug
#SocialMedia #TechAccountability #BigTech #Meta #Media #YouTube #DigitalAddiction #MentalHealth #YouthProtection #Algorithm #TechEthics #DataEconomy #OnlineSafety #DigitalRights
https://the-14.com/landmark-lawsuit-finds-that-social-media-addiction-is-a-feature-not-a-bug/
https://get.mypost.to/Z1bgW9
This week’s verdict in the landmark social media addiction trial against Meta/GG
#socialmedia #meta #google #trial
https://get.mypost.to/YEdGoU
This week’s verdict in the landmark social media addiction trial against Meta/GG
#socialmedia #meta #google #trial
So if you pop onto Mastodon and catch up some, how do you do it?
Boost for reach, if you would - I'm actually curious about this. I've been reordering toot chains when boosting for ages based on something I don't even know is true.
#mastodon #meta #fediverse #FediMeta #MastoMeta
| Read from top, scrolling down: | 101 |
| Scroll down first, then read from bottom: | 39 |
| Catch up? I live in the now, like a skipping stone: | 12 |
| Could be anything, I'm a chaos muppet: | 27 |
| I'm not online, aides provide curated printouts: | 3 |
| Stranger Thing(s) (comment): | 3 |
| I just gotta see how this turns out: | 1 |
Busy week? Catch up on essential tech news (Meta and Google social media ruling), the latest reviews (the Sonos Play speaker), and more from @TechRadar:
#Tech #TechNews #SocialMedia #Meta #Google #Sonos #SocialMediaLawsuit
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Das Grafschafter Metalfest 2026 demonstriert eine strategische Machtverschiebung zugunsten agiler, post-pandemischer Acts.
Nächsten Sonntag ist wieder #diday.
Es geht um weitaus mehr, als Software. Dezentralismus und Open Source bedeuten Souveränität, Sicherheit und Freiheit. Marktbeherrschende Konzerne bestimmen was wir sehen, was wir lesen und nehmen in verheerendem Maße Einfluss auf demokratische Prozesse.
Darum: #digitalindependence
#fediverse #signal #linux #wero #dutgemacht
Schluss mit #Meta #Facebook #x #microsoft und wie sie alle heißen.
Goodbye google!