… The account protections Meta debuted on Wednesday include expanding its Messenger scam detection features for more users around the world, introducing warnings about potentially suspicious activity when a user is initiating a new WhatsApp device link, and testing new Facebook alerts to flag potenti… …
The Take It Down Act applies broadly to a range of apps and online services, including social media and gaming platforms, according to business guidance published by the Federal Trade Commission, which is responsible for enforcing platforms’ compliance with the law. …
… The letter, which was signed by New York AG Letitia James, said that Meta’s solutions were not working and that investigators in New York kept seeing scam advertisements months after submitting reports to Meta. …
… This is by design, given that platforms often want to train their AI models on as much user data as possible and have made it hard to opt out of having your information used as training data. …
… There is the Steam Frame headset, which Valve says is still on track to release this year; the Samsung Galaxy XR launched in December, running the new Android XR platform; and ByteDance-owned company Pico will release its Project Swan headset later in 2026. …
… Looking All Grown-Up The new measures have been interpreted as a response to a preliminary ruling recently issued by the European Commission, which concluded that the company led by Mark Zuckerberg is in breach of the Digital Services Act for allegedly failing to effectively prevent children under … …
… Most generative AI platforms now offer some type of “incognito mode,” but these features are usually designed to separate users from the questions they ask and the answers they receive rather than including a mechanism to entirely shield those questions and answers from the provider's view. …
… Come June 15, Meta plans to cut creation features in VR and stop allowing users to build updates or new content on the platform—no more new worlds or seasonal updates, except on mobile. “Soapstone is a world built by a third-party creator and is currently available as both a mobile world and a VR w… …
… In March, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in the design of Instagram and YouTube, concluding the companies knew their platforms were dangerous and failed to warn users, and awarded $6 million in compensatory and punitive damages in the first “bellwether trial” of a spra… …
… Where I am disappointed is that I had hoped when I helped set it up that you’d have other platforms buying into it by this stage. You hoped that other platforms would replicate the model? …