Irish regulators kick Meta with fine
Made a mess of bottom line
Irish regulators kicked Facebook parent Meta in its private assets with hundreds of millions in fines for online privacy violations and banned the company from forcing European users to agree to personalised ads.
Companies that fire IT staff are going to suffer in the long term
While those who hire them are going to do well
Dumb companies run by corporate geniuses who think they can save money by firing their IT staff to prop up their bottom lines are headed towards future doom.
Facebook charged with inflaming a real war
Refused to stop posts that incited violence
Meta has been accused in a lawsuit of letting posts that inflamed the war in Tigray on Facebook, by refusing to block posts calling for violence.
Axeman arrives at Intel
Couple of hundred employees set to lose their jobs next month
A couple of hundred Intel employees are about to be thrown out into the cold and the snow while manufacturing employees worldwide being offered unpaid leave.
Facebook's moderation systems for "high profile users" favour Meta
No priority for free speech and civil rights
A policy which protects "high-profile" Facebook and Instagram users from moderation was structured so it did not prioritise protecting free speech and civil rights and was designed to protect the social notworking giant's interests.
Ireland fines Meta €265 million
User data made public
Ireland's Data Protection watchdog the DPC has fined Meta €265 million for failing to safeguard the personal data of more than half a billion users of its Facebook service.
Metaverse given the thumbs down
Meh
While Meta is all excited about its Metaverse, the concept is being greeted with a loud sounding yawn by punters who are failing to get excited about a new way of handing over their personal data to Facebook.
Meta claims its AI is better at diplomacy than most humans
Trust Zuckerburg to sort out the world
Meta claims that its AI is better at playing strategy game Diplomacy than most tiny mortals.
Meta fires Galactica AI over controversial life choices
Left to itself, Galactica became as balanced as a Kayne West Twitter post
Meta has been forced to "pause" a public AI experiment after it started spewing misinformation and offensive comments.
Meta shares crash 25 per cent
Disaster as Zuckerberg's annus horribilis gets worse
Social notworking outfit Meta Platforms plunged as much as 25 per cent as its Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg asked investors for patience with the social-media giant's swelling investments in unproven bets at an already-challenging time for digital-advertising companies.