Countries are outlawing online gambling ads. Meta is selling them anyway

https://restofworld.org/2026/meta-online-gambling-ads/

#indonesia #gambling #meta

US Top News and Analysis | Mark Zuckerberg says a Meta cloud computing business 'definitely on the table'

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders that launching a cloud‑computing business is “definitely on the table” if Meta ends up with excess data‑center capacity from its aggressive AI investments. He noted that, unlike Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle, Meta currently does not sell cloud infrastructure, but external companies frequently ask for API access or compute purchases, suggesting an opportunity should the company over‑build. Zuckerberg said Meta’s AI‑related capital spend for 2026 has been raised to $125‑$145 billion and that the firm could eventually monetize premium or high‑compute AI services, including a new subscription model for its Meta AI app that will start at $7.99 or $19.99 per month in a few test markets. He emphasized that while Meta is still using its compute internally, the option to rent it out provides confidence for continued investment.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-starting-cloud-business-on-the-table.html

#MarkZuckerberg #Meta #MetaAI

#Meta lansează 📸#Instagram Plus, 📞#WhatsApp Plus și #Facebook Plus, abonamente plătite pentru funcții suplimentare de analiză statistică și acces la un public mai larg.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5jd6

#Știri

@wegegeld eben - bei #Google, #Microsoft und #Meta weiss man es ja.

Da braucht man ja nicht mehr warnen.

Oder? ODER?!?!!

UA: Була маленька надія, що люди в Україні злізуть з телеграму. Напевно вже ні...

EN: Here was hope for Ukrainian people to get rid of #Telegram. I guess is not now...

#whatsapp #meta #censorship #телеграм #russoukrainianwar

Alt...

Скріншот у WhatsApp групи Сергія Стерненка, яку заблокували / A screenshot of WhatsApp with opened group of Ukrainian volunteer, activist and youtuber Serhii Sternenko which is got blocked

@max_baranskyi

So difficult situation. #Meta blocks one of the important source of truth just because, maybe due to violent content. I can understand Meta here, unfortunately, first of all, it's about business and blah-blah-blah...
But on the other side, what is the real world alternative during #telegram histeria in #ukraine Most people decide to use it as a daily driver even after having an exact understanding that it is a ruzzian product. Other really normal messengers are too bad (for mass) and unpopular.

We totally defeat, I mean.

#fucktelegram

US Top News and Analysis | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down after 19 years at helm of cloud storage pioneer

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Dropbox co‑founder and chief executive Drew Houston announced that he will leave the CEO role after nearly two decades, transitioning to executive chairman while sharing a co‑CEO title with product chief Ashraf Alkarmi, who will eventually assume full leadership. Houston, who built Dropbox into a $6 billion‑valued public company and amassed a personal net worth of more than $2 billion, said there is “never a perfect time” for the change and that he plans to focus on entrepreneurship in artificial intelligence. The company, which now has over 18 million paying users and generates roughly $2 billion in annual revenue, is betting on AI‑powered tools such as the new Dash feature to drive growth amid fierce competition from Google, Apple, Microsoft and rivals like Box. Analysts view the move and the AI push as positive signs, noting that Dropbox’s stock has held up better than many SaaS peers. Houston, also a Meta board member, expects to stay active in the tech ecosystem while the firm brings in Google veteran Mike Torres as chief product officer.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html

#DrewHouston #AshrafAlkarmi #Dropbox #Meta #MIT

qwant news | 'I don't think we're going to have the kind of jobs apocalypse that some…advocate or talk about': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's 'delighted to be wrong' about AI-induced job cuts

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has cautioned that the feared “jobs apocalypse” from generative AI is unlikely to materialise, noting that the impact on entry‑level white‑collar roles has been smaller than he expected; however, recent cuts at companies such as Intuit (3,000 jobs), Meta (over twice that), Standard Chartered (planning to replace around 8,000 lower‑value roles) and HSBC illustrate that AI‑driven workforce reductions are already occurring, with some firms seeing up to 17 % of staff eliminated. While Altman’s view suggests a less dramatic long‑term effect, the author argues that an independent, unbiased assessment of AI’s true impact on employment is needed, as many workers are already being displaced by chatbots and AI agents.

Read more: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-dont-think-were-going-to-have-the-kind-of-jobs-apocalypse-that-some-advocate-or-talk-about-openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-hes-delighted-to-be-wrong-about-ai-induced-job-cuts/

#SamAltman #OpenAI #CommonwealthBank #Meta #StandardChartered

Times of India | Meet Andrew Bosworth: Mark Zuckerberg's right-hand man leading the AI-revolution at Meta with layoffs

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Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s longtime lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg, has been thrust into the spotlight as the company’s chief architect of its new AI‑first strategy, a move that follows a recent round of cuts that slashed roughly 10 % of its workforce. After overseeing the News Feed, the company’s ads and its metaverse push, Bosworth was appointed CTO and now heads an “applied AI engineering” group tasked with embedding generative‑AI tools across Meta’s products and accelerating model development to rival rivals such as OpenAI. He has sparked controversy by refusing employee requests to opt out of keystroke‑and‑mouse‑tracking intended to train AI, urging staff to avoid personal email on work devices, and by issuing blunt internal memos that have drawn criticism for their tone. A Harvard‑trained coder who joined Facebook in 2006, Bosworth rose from building the News Feed to leading VR/AR efforts before shifting focus to AI, where he now stands to earn up to $1 billion if Meta’s market value grows 500 % in the next five years. His hands‑on, no‑nonsense style is shaping Meta’s transition from a metaverse‑obsessed past to an AI‑driven future.

Read more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/people/meet-andrew-bosworth-mark-zuckerbergs-right-hand-man-leading-the-ai-revolution-at-meta-with-layoffs/articleshow/131322413.cms

#AndrewBosworth #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #OpenAI #Anthropic

Times of India | Pregnant Meta employee says she was laid off just weeks before maternity leave, internet outraged

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A Meta employee in the United States sparked a viral online debate after revealing on Reddit that she was laid off during the company’s recent global cutbacks just weeks before her scheduled maternity leave. The 34‑week‑pregnant worker said she received notice of termination on July 22, even though her leave was set to begin on June 1, and she believed her pregnancy might offer some protection. In her post she asked for advice on how to keep receiving paychecks while also claiming maternity benefits without losing severance, prompting hundreds of comments that ranged from legal opinions and personal stories to criticism of corporate attitudes toward pregnancy. Many users pointed out that “at‑will” employment in the U.S. allows such dismissals, while others highlighted the broader issue of inadequate worker protections and the perception of maternity leave as a costly expense for high‑pressure tech firms. The discussion has expanded into a wider conversation about maternity rights, severance policies, and corporate responsibility toward employees facing major life events.

Read more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/pregnant-meta-employee-says-she-was-laid-off-just-weeks-before-maternity-leave-internet-outraged/articleshow/131321377.cms

#Meta #Reddit #

There had been many allegations of this kind and a few lawsuites and #meta's response has been similar to the below.

The issue is, these claims are unverifiable as the code is clksed source. Unless and until they make the code open and available for audit, even if their claims on privacy are true, they remain untrusted.

And I really dont care for Durov's statement or his platform seriously, since it is worse than whatsapp when it comes to protecting privacy.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone has vowed that the company would fight it and insisted that “WhatsApp cannot access people’s encrypted communications and any suggestion to the contrary is false.”

qwant news | A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company

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Huawei announced a new “Tau (τ) Scaling Law” that it says will let the company design chips with transistor‑density equivalent to a 1.4‑nanometer process by 2031, a technique it dubs “LogicFolding” that it hopes will bypass Moore’s‑Law limits and mitigate the impact of U.S. export restrictions, while Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” calling for robust regulation of artificial intelligence, urging that AI be harnessed for the common good and warning against its concentration of power, misinformation, and potential to erode human dignity.

Read more: https://www.techmeme.com/260525/p3

#Meta #AndrewBosworth #MarkZuckerberg #HuaweiTechnologies #TSMC

#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2026

Five highlights from this week: #OpenAI Shared Your Chats with #Meta & #google Lawsuit Claims; #FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers; #YouTube Opens AI #Deepfake Detection Tool to All Adult Users; Lawmakers warn data protection rules don't protect key sites; and Google's Spam Policies Now Apply to Attempts to Manipulate #ai

Posted in: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, #privacy Search Engines, #SEO Social Media

https://www.llrx.com/2026/05/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-may-23-2026/

Yeah, that's because they're not guardrails.

AI guardrails stripped from Meta and Google models in minutes
https://www.ft.com/content/5630ed79-a263-41ed-9a1a-321617ae310e

#AI #AISafety #Meta #Google

#Calenda che sfancula il rappresentante di #Meta in #ita
#standingovation

Artificial Intelligence Becomes a Major Topic at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

📰 Original title: AI 'Crashes the Party' at This Year's Cannes Film Festival

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/artificial-intelligence-becomes-a-major-topic-at-the-2026-cannes-film-festival.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#artificialintelligence #ai #cannes #meta

Pfrohe Pfingsten!
Übrigens:
#Woelki klebt immer noch an seinem Amt wie Scheiße am Schuh, oder auch Beichtstuhl?
Hier mein Comedymix mit tollen Kolleg:Innen:
@Dagmar_Schoenleber
Der Rest noch lost auf #Meta.
Wobei @mariavollmer ist auch nicht wirklich hier angekommen..
Vllt gebt ihr ihr einen Boost?
Enjoy! 😁

#kabarett #comedy #lachen #lustig #scheinheilig #musik #koeln #kirche #unplugtrump
#Kirchenkritik #indie

#Netflix chairman #ReedHastings demanded #SanJose Mayor #MattMahan return a $1 million donation made just 5 days earlier to Mahan's struggling CA gubernatorial campaign.

Did this have to do with an #ethics complaint that was filed alleging possible illegal coordination between Mahan's campaign and a deep pocketed #PAC?

Newly filed campaign finance report for “California Back to Basics Supporting Matt Mahan for Governor 2026” #PAC shows Reed Hastings contributed $1 million to a Mahan connected "independent expenditure committee" on May 15 — only to want the generous campaign cash back just 5 days later.

No direct link between the complaint and the refund has been confirmed, nor public explanation for why Hastings demanded his moolah back less than a wk after giving it — only that the million $ was returned quickly, while Mahan's #BigTech sponsored #campaign has not resonated across #California as much as deep pocketed #siliconvalley $ supporters had initially hoped. Big tech money had flooded Mahan's coffers early , including $1 million from Airbnb and $950,000 from Zuggerfugger's #Meta — now seems to be flowing in the direction former #JoeBiden cabinet member Xavier Becerra, current #Democrat party primary frontrunner.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-mayors-bid-for-ca-governor-fizzles-out/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pro-mahan-pac-shuts-down-013840558.html

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In a blow to Mahan campaign, Reed Hastings wants his $1 million bac The Netflix chairman requested a refund from a committee backing the San Jose mayor's gubernatorial bid.

#WhatsApp: Texas Attorney General Sues #Meta Claiming WhatsApp and Meta are continuing to willfully deceive Texans by misrepresenting that their private communications are encrypted when when "in fact Meta employees have access to all WhatsApp messages":

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/texas-ag-sues-meta-over-claims-that-whatsapp-doesnt-provide-end-to-end-encryption/

yahoo news | Zuckerberg's Meta taps Musk's Tesla for massive clean energy project

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Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, has teamed up with Canadian energy firm Enbridge to launch a massive renewable‑energy venture near Cheyenne, Wyoming, featuring a 365‑megawatt solar farm paired with a 200‑megawatt/1,600‑megawatt‑hour Tesla‑supplied battery storage system valued at about $200 million. Called the first phase of the “Cowboy Project,” the initiative will supply clean power to Meta’s regional data centers under Wyoming’s Large Power Contract Service tariff, which is designed for hyperscale loads without raising retail rates. The long‑term tolling agreement for the batteries provides dispatchable capacity to bolster grid reliability during peak demand, addressing the challenge of integrating large‑scale renewables with the growing electricity needs of AI‑driven data centers. This partnership builds on prior Enbridge‑Meta projects in Texas, bringing their combined renewable and storage capacity to roughly 1.6 GW and underscoring the increasing demand among tech giants for low‑carbon, reliable energy solutions.

Read more: https://www.teslarati.com/zuckerberg-meta-taps-musk-tesla-massive-clean-energy-project/

#Meta #MarkZuckerberg #Tesla #ElonMusk #Enbridge #AllenCapps

Home - CBSNews.com | AI is driving more job cuts and weighing on hiring, economists say

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AI‑related layoffs are climbing, with nearly 50,000 jobs cut this year—about 17 % of all announced cuts—after firms such as Intuit, Meta and Cisco trimmed staff to pivot toward AI. Experts, however, say the bigger story is not mass dismissals but a slowdown in hiring, especially for junior and entry‑level positions, which has already shaved roughly 16,000 jobs from monthly payroll growth and nudged the unemployment rate up. Analysts warn AI could eventually affect up to 15 % of U.S. jobs, yet most current cuts are framed as strategic moves to invest in technology rather than direct replacements of workers. Consequently, younger workers face heightened risk as their roles are easier to automate, while those who combine AI proficiency with adaptability and uniquely human skills are likely to be best positioned for the evolving labor market.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-layoffs-hiring-entry-level-workers/

#Intuit #Meta #Cisco #Challenger #GoldmanSachs #DanielKeum #GregDaco

Mother Jones | Exclusive: Departing Meta Staffer Posts Biting Anti-AI Video Internally Amid Mass Layoffs by Mother Jones

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Meta recently cut 8,000 jobs—about 10 % of its workforce—and reassigned another 7,000 employees to train its AI models, prompting a sense of unease among staff who see the company’s focus shift from a coder‑driven culture to an AI‑first strategy. In response, engineer David Frenk posted a high‑production parody of Don McLean’s “American Pie” on Meta’s internal message board, turning his customary farewell “badge post” into a satire that lampooned the Model Capability Initiative (MCI) that monitors workers’ screen activity to teach AI, criticized soaring executive pay amid layoffs, and captured the feeling that employees’ professional pride and humanity are being sidelined. The video quickly went viral within Meta, sparking emotional reactions and discussions on external forums like Blind, where former and current employees described it as a poignant, if humorous, reflection of the company’s cultural shift and declining morale.

Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/meta-video-ai-training-layoffs-video-exclusive-mci-bosworth-frenk/

#Meta #DavidFrenk #AndrewBosworth #MCI #tech #DonMcLean

"The financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed. The school district had sought more than $60 million to create a 15-year program it said would help counteract mental health and learning issues caused by social media."

AP: Meta settles social media addiction case brought by rural Kentucky school district https://apnews.com/article/meta-school-lawsuit-settlement-tiktok-snap-b20cdfe88dbcb55fb14808fe7f9c7372 @AssociatedPress #Meta #socialmedia #education #mentalhealth

Meta on julkaissut uuden Forum-nimisen sovelluksen, joka on suunniteltu tarjoamaan Facebook-ryhmille oman, selkeämmän kodin pääsovelluksen ulkopuolella.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/05/22/facebook-forum-sovellus

#uutiset #meta #facebook #facebookforum #sosiaalinenmedia

@krisgoldsmith85 i look forward to you ditching #meta for the #fediverse 😁💙

you already have a @KrisGoldsmith account (unused for a few years)

we've got:
💙 #mastodon vs⛔ #threads
💙 #pixelfed vs⛔ #instagram

plus:
💙 #loops vs⛔ #tiktok
💙 #peertube vs⛔ #youtube

but as you mentioned in a yt vid, we need some "good" billionaires to invest in building the infrastructure we will need to start fighting fascists, especially to fight the tech-bro-chodes

#Resist #BreakTheOligarchy