Andrew McCollum

WhatsApp still working on making View Once chats actually disappear for all

Updated So far it's more like View Forever

Patches18 Sep 2024 | 16

Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training

I wanna know 🎵 What you're feeling 🎵 Tell me what's on your mind

Personal Tech14 Sep 2024 | 33

Australia’s government spent the week boxing Big Tech

With social media age limits, anti-scam laws, privacy tweaks, and misinformation rules Elon Musk labelled 'fascist'

Public Sector13 Sep 2024 | 41

Big Tech: Malaysia won't let us set our own rules and that's not fair and makes us grumpy

Asia Internet Coalition asks for rethink of social media licensing law with the old 'You'll scare away investors' line – a week after AWS opened a region

Public Sector28 Aug 2024 | 22

Meta digs deep to strike geothermal power deal for its US datacenters

Teaming up with Sage Geosystems, house of Facbook plans to tap into Earth's fiery underbelly

On-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 9

Meta to boost training infra for Llama 4 tenfold, maybe deliver it next year

Sweet sweet GenAI money not yet flowing, Zuck reckons other ML efforts are paying off

AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 4

Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends

Everything's bigger in Texas – even the settlement deals

AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 16

Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar

'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32

AI + ML29 Jul 2024 | 57

Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it

AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 2

Meta claims ‘world’s largest' open AI model with Llama 3.1 405B debut

Zuck says he wants to mimic Linux and go open source, kind of

AI + ML23 Jul 2024 | 11

Meta's mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge

You can't offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB

Networks22 Jul 2024 | 30

Privacy warriors gripe to UK watchdog about Meta harvesting user data to train AI

Move follows Instagram and Facebook giant's decision to reverse direction in EU after protests

Security16 Jul 2024 | 10

Meta training AI models on citizen data gets a hard não from Brazil

Updated Zuckerborg's justification isn't good enough, says watchdog

AI + ML03 Jul 2024 | 4

Antitrust cops cry foul over Meta's pay-or-consent ultimatum to Europeans

Facebook, Instagram gobble up same data whether you hand over cash or not

Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 40

Appeals court reanimates lawsuit accusing Meta of hiring bias against US citizens

Software techie claims he was snubbed because he wasn't on an H-1B

Software27 Jun 2024 | 18

Meta, Microsoft SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain

Opinion Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening?

Security24 Jun 2024 | 41

Meta warns bit flips, other hardware faults cause AI errors

It's no hallucination: '4 in 1,000 inferences inaccurate' due to this alone, depending on the setup

AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 39

Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads

Andrew Forrest has spent five years railing against promos that falsely claim he's found the route to crypto riches

Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 78

Researchers find Meta's withdrawal of misinformation tool hard to swallow

Feature If the new system is so good, why not onboard everyone who accessed the old system?

Networks18 Jun 2024 | 41

Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers

As more than 70 civil society groups sign open letter slamming 'intimidation'

Personal Tech16 Jun 2024 | 35

Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down

Facebook parent calls step forward for privacy a 'step backwards'

AI + ML14 Jun 2024 | 41

Meta will use your social media posts to train its AI. Europe gets an opt out

What's German for 'thank goodness for actually useful privacy regulations'?

AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 22

Meta faces multiple complaints in Europe over plans to train AI on user data

Opt out, if you can, or prepare for your posts to be ingested

AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 57

Meta algorithms push Black people more toward expensive universities, study finds

Special report Just as we saw with housing, Facebook giant's advertising system seems to treat Whites and POC differently

AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 44

Big Tech is not much help when fighting a junta, and FOSS doesn't ride to the rescue

Opponents of Myanmar’s internet-nobbling military government don't like when Facebook asks for their real names

Security21 May 2024 | 25

Graph database shows Biden outspends Trump in social media ad war

But incumbent is mentioned a lot more in attack material

Databases17 May 2024 | 31

EU probes Meta over its provisions for protecting children

Has social media biz done enough to comply with Digital Services Act? Maybe not

Security16 May 2024 | 3

Prof asks court to protect his Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension from Facebook's ire

You've got to fight for your right to personalize

Personal Tech02 May 2024 | 47

European Commission starts formal probe of Meta over election misinformation

Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool

Security30 Apr 2024 | 15

Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money

Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst?

AI + ML25 Apr 2024 | 41

Meta comms chief handed six-year Russian prison sentence for 'justifying terrorism'

Memo to Andy Stone: Don't go to Moscow for your holidays

Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 27

Europol now latest cops to beg Big Tech to ditch E2EE

Don't bore us, get to the chorus: You need less privacy so we can protect the children

Security22 Apr 2024 | 25

Watchdog tells Dutch govt: 'Do not use Facebook if there is uncertainty about privacy'

Meta insists it's just misunderstood and it's safe to talk to citizens over FB

Security22 Apr 2024 | 9

Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking

Plans multilingual 400 billion parameter version, but starts with more modest fare

AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 8

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use

Security18 Apr 2024 | 73

Next-gen Meta AI chip serves up ads while sipping power

Fresh silicon won't curb Zuck's appetite for GPUs just yet

On-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 6

Lawsuit claims Meta hobbled Facebook Watch to help Netflix

Advertiser antitrust lawsuit says claimed deal with Netflix is anticompetitive

Personal Tech02 Apr 2024 | 2

No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her

Comment Land of the Free has lost its way in quest for profits

Offbeat02 Apr 2024 | 77

Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption

I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case...

Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 20

In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem

Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed

Applications27 Mar 2024 | 26

Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse

Doing things outside the walled garden is kinda hard, devs admit

Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 18

Meta, Microsoft, X, Match pledge selves to Epic battle against Apple App Store

You have my sword ... and my bow ... and my axe!

Applications21 Mar 2024 | 14

Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter

Section 230 on trial: Plaintiffs contend social media platforms are defective products, not protected message boards

Personal Tech19 Mar 2024 | 95

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams

Australian minister singles out Meta – where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll

Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 26

Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints

Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup

PaaS + IaaS12 Mar 2024 | 4

We're not Meta support: State AGs tell Zuck to fix rampant account takeover problem

'We refuse to operate as customer service representatives'

Security07 Mar 2024 | 17

Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia

So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020

Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 87

Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit

GDPR claim alleges Facebook parent's 'commercial surveillance practices are fundamentally illegal'

Security29 Feb 2024 | 38

Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content

Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections

AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 40

Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption

State government says it's thinking of the children

Security26 Feb 2024 | 37

Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs

Appears to be struggling to find them, even in India, as it's re-posted job ads

On-Prem23 Feb 2024 | 14

In pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Meta adds Broadcom boss Hock Tan to its board

Zuck needs silicon smarts – and the energy experience of a former Enron exec

AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 7

Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve

Leaves it to carriers, promoting a complaint to Irish data cops from Big Tech's bête noire

Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 107

Meta to try 'cutting edge' AI detection on its platforms - asking people to add labels

Will apply 'penalties if they fail to do so'

AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 9

Untangling Meta's plan for its homegrown AI chips, set to actually roll out this year

So that's where all the laid-off semiconductor engineers went!

AI + ML02 Feb 2024 | 11

'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing

Meta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people'

Public Sector31 Jan 2024 | 70