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Meta spent $400 million and fought the US government to buy a VR fitness app, then let its creators take it back

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In 2023, Meta fought an eight-month antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission for the right to acquire Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. The deal was reportedly worth around $400 million. Mark Zuckerberg even testified in court to get it done. Less than three years later, Meta is handing it back. The company announced […]

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EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in

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The General Court annulled the Commission’s designation of Marketplace under the Digital Markets Act, faulting its reasoning, while upholding the same label for Messenger. Meta walked into the EU’s General Court asking it to strike down two gatekeeper labels and walked out having shed one. On 3 June the Luxembourg court annulled the European Commission’s […]

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Meta takes its 13+ teen content settings global across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger

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Meta is taking its “13+” content settings for Teen Accounts global. The company said today that the setting, which it likens to a movie rating, will now apply by default to teenagers across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger worldwide, extending a system it first introduced last October in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. According to […]

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Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta’s own AI chatbot to reset the password

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Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts over the weekend by tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting them access. The attack required no access to the victim’s email, no phishing link, and no malware. The hacker simply asked the chatbot to add a new email address to someone else’s account. A video posted on X showed […]

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Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

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Meta’s AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta’s chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else’s profile and then reset the password. The issue, which Meta says has […]

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Meta’s employee mouse-click tracking tool is collecting EU data it said it would not collect

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Internal documents show the Model Capability Initiative captures emails and chats US employees exchange with European colleagues, putting the AI-agent training programme on a collision course with GDPR. Meta’s Model Capability Initiative, the surveillance programme it deployed across US employee workstations in April to capture keystrokes, mouse clicks and screen contents for AI-agent training, is […]

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