Getty Images reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networking sites. “Defendant created… Read More »
reader comments 62 with 0 posters participating Share this story Meta, the parent company of Facebook, will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The lawsuit came in the wake of Facebook’s revelation that it had improperly shared data on 87 million users with Cambridge Analytica, a British political consultancy tied… Read More »
Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. reader comments 60 with 54 posters participating Share this story Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says this technique… Read More »
Enlarge / Still image from an AI-generated video of a teddy bear painting a portrait. reader comments 79 with 58 posters participating Share this story Today, Meta announced Make-A-Video, an AI-powered video generator that can create novel video content from text or image prompts, similar to existing image synthesis tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.… Read More »
Enlarge / The PyTorch logo on a fancy gradient. PyTorch Foundation reader comments 20 with 16 posters participating Share this story Meta AI announced today that the governance of PyTorch, a popular open source deep learning framework, has moved to an independent organization called the PyTorch Foundation. It will operate as part of the nonprofit… Read More »
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Meta is ever so slowly expanding its trial of end-to-end encryption in a bid to protect users from snoops and law enforcement. End-to-end encryption, often abbreviated as E2EE, uses strong cryptography to encrypt messages with a key that is unique to each user. Because the key is in the sole possession… Read More »
John Carmack, seen here wearing an early prototype Oculus Rift headset. reader comments 96 with 81 posters participating Share this story Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack has been bullish on the idea of “the metaverse” for a long time, as he’ll be among the first to point out. But the id Software co-founder spent a… Read More »
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