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Two current and two former Meta employees disclosed documents to Congress alleging that the company may have suppressed research on children’s safety, according to a report from The Washington Post. According to their claims, Meta changed its policies around researching sensitive topics — like politics, children, gender, race, and harassment — six weeks after whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked internal documents …

Meta allegedly suppressed research that suggested kids were exposed to certain dangers when using its VR headsets, . Current and former employees have presented documents to Congress that describe incidents in which children were groomed by adult predators in VR, but allege that internal reports were edited to omit the worst of these offenses. Meta has denied these allegations. Two …

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say  The Washington Post Senator says Meta ignored warnings about AI chatbots and teens  NBC News Blackburn pushes for KOSA  The Hill Meta Whistleblowers Allege Suppression of VR Child Safety Research  WebProNews Republican Senators Press Meta on Restricting Minors’ Access to Online Content  National Review Source link

In 2025, the US workforce experienced significant disruptions, driven by federal layoffs, corporate restructuring, cost-cutting measures, economic pressures, and financial distress across various sectors. Federal agencies drove over half of all layoffs this quarter, with over 150,000 job cuts reported in February and March. The list of companies laying off companies is growing following two years of significant job cuts …

Rokid Glasses with the app and case. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Rokid Glasses are a competitor to Meta Ray-Bans but offer several more advanced features. The company launched a pre-order marketing campaign via Kickstarted and raised over $1 million in pre-orders in the first 3 days. The AI glasses are likely …

What’s in a name? Indianapolis attorney Mark Zuckerberg suing Meta over repeated Facebook suspensions  WTHR Mark Zuckerberg – no, not that one – sues Facebook for account shutdowns  BBC Howard Stern’s Bosses Tease His Fate at SiriusXM  The Daily Beast Lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta over claims he’s impersonating founder  New York Post Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg  TechCrunch Source link

Instagram has launched a version of its app that is optimized for Apple’s iPad and that device’s bigger screen. The new Instagram for iPad opens with Reels, the app’s short video format, because people use bigger screens like the iPad’s for “lean back entertainment,” the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 3) blog post. The app also makes it easy …

Ever since the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses arrived on the market, the elephant in the room has always been: what if someone uses them for clandestine recording? And it struck one New York woman who was attending a Brazilian wax appointment at the Europan Wax Center and noticed midway through proceedings that the beautician was wearing a pair of the …

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, and Eddy Cue, senior vice president of services at Apple. (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.’s lead artificial intelligence researcher for robotics has departed the company to join Meta Platforms Inc.’s competing effort, part of an exodus of AI talent from the iPhone maker. The employee, Jian Zhang, joined the Meta Robotics Studio, the social media …

These steps don’t work for me. Why? The steps above, which I’ve verified using the Faebook app for iPhone, may vary on Android devices. Samsung users, for instance, must do the following: Open Facebook > Go to Profile/Menu > Tap the gear icon in the upper right > Scroll down to “Camera roll sharing suggestions” and select it > You’ll …