… As is always the case with unencrypted data, it will inevitably end up in the wrong hands.” Marlinspike wrote that he will “work to integrate Confer’s privacy technology so that it underpins Meta AI.” He also emphasized that Confer, which debuted at the beginning of this year, will continue to oper… …
… He notes that a number of countries spy on their own populations through face recognition systems that use a technology he helped pioneer called convolutional nets, a type of neural network inspired by how human brains process visual inputs. “I was at the origin of those things, but it is not for m… …
… A Primer on Metasurfaces Metalenz’s optical metasurfaces technology is a flat-lens system that uses a fraction of the space of traditional multi-lens elements in most smartphones. …
… On Tuesday, Democratic senators Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, and Jeff Merkley addressed an open letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s reported plans to integrate face-recognition technology into these devices. “Given Meta’s vast data collections, its smart glasses could capture images of … …
… Meta says the MTIA 500, which is slated to arrive later next year, will have even more memory than MTIA 450 and include “innovations in low-precision data.” The MTIA chips are part of Meta’s broader strategy to hoard as much computing power as possible in order to develop cutting-edge artificial in… …
… As Meta shifts its focus to artificial intelligence and its Ray-Ban smart glasses, it has drastically cut its investments in its metaverse divisions, including stopping updates to very popular services like Supernatural Fitness. “Meta’s pivot on Horizon Worlds is the predicted and inevitable outcom… …
… As Chris Sonderby, Meta vice president and deputy general counsel, put it in a statement on Wednesday, “we will continue to invest in technology and partnerships to stay ahead of these adversaries.”
… In other Meta encryption news, though, Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike announced this week that he will collaborate with the tech giant to integrate his encrypted AI platform Confer into Meta AI in some form. …
… Meta is investing in at least one new project that would bring encryption protections to more of its users: a partnership with Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike to deploy his new private AI technology, known as Confer, for Meta AI. …
… Meta also announced that it will expand the scope of its technology to detect users between the ages of 13 and 15 and automatically assign them teen accounts. …
