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Meta warns 1 million users about 400 malicious apps that targeted them
According to the company, it reported its findings to Apple and Google and are helping potentially impacted people to learn more about how to stay safe and secure their accounts. "These apps were listed on the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store and disguised as photo editors, games, VPN services, business apps and other utilities to trick people into downloading them," said David Agranovich, Director, Threat Disruption at Meta.
Meta's metaverse app has several quality issues, admits head
According to a report in The Verge citing internal memos, Meta's VR social network called 'Horizon Worlds' holds little promise in its current avatar. Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, apparently told the employees that the metaverse team would remain in a "quality lockdown" for the rest of the year to "ensure that we fix our quality gaps and performance issues before we open up Horizon to more users".
Meta rolls out new ad placements, formats on Instagram
Businesses can now place ads in Explore home, the grid people see when they first arrive on the Explore tab.
"We are also beginning to test ads in profile feed, which is the feed experience that people can scroll through after visiting another account's profile and tapping on a post," the company said in the blogpost.
Google takes on Meta, introduces own video-generating AI
'Imagen Video' is a text-conditional video generation system based on a cascade of video diffusion models. According to a Google paper, given a text prompt, 'Imagen Video' generates high-definition videos using a base video generation model and a sequence of interleaved spatial and temporal video super-resolution models.
12K Facebook employees may lose jobs amid 'quiet layoffs': Report
According to a report in Insider, the senior executives are in the process of executing "quiet layoffs" of underperforming workers. Several employees told Insider that as much as 15 per cent of the workforce could be cut within the next few weeks. This means that some 12,000 employees could be out of jobs soon. "It might look like they are moving on, but the reality is they are being forced out," the employee told Insider.
Facebook adds 'show more' and 'show less' tabs on News Feed
The Facebook users can now customise Facebook Feed by selecting Show more' or Show less' on a post to see more of what you want and less of what you don't. "Selecting Show more will temporarily increase the ranking score for that post and posts like it. If you select Show less, you'll temporarily decrease its ranking score," Meta said in a blog post late on Wednesday.
Meta shuts Bulletin newsletter, refocuses on algorithm to take on TikTok
Meta said it will refocus resources from Bulletin to work on its discovery algorithm, that the company is building to take on Chinese short-form video TikTok. In June 2021, the company launched Bulletin, a set of publishing and subscription tools to support creators in the US.
Most of today's AI will never lead to true human intelligence: Meta AI chief
Speaking to ZDNet, LeCun noted that fundamental problems elude many strains of deep learning, including the mystery of how to measure information. "I think they're necessary but not sufficient. We tokenize everything, and train gigantic models to make discrete predictions, and somehow AI will emerge out of this," he was quoted as saying.
Instagram permanently bans Pornhub, adult website says it is 'fully PG'
Pornhub defended its position, stating that those in the adult industry "have for years been undermined by Instagram's opaque, discriminatory and hypocritical enforcement of its own Terms and Policies". Earlier this month, Instagram removed the official account for Pornhub from its platform.
Meta to make it easier to switch between Facebook Instagram accounts
The company said that users could get notifications for both platforms in one place if they choose to add them to the same Accounts Center. "Today, we are introducing new features that will make it easier for people on Facebook and Instagram to access, create and navigate between multiple accounts and profiles," the company said in a blogpost.
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