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Call of Duty Season 5 launches July 23, bringing a wild array of content to Black Ops 7 and Warzone. Expect a bizarre Nuketown pinball machine multiplayer map, the return of fan-favorite Heavy Metal Heroes to Warzone, and the epic conclusion to the Black Ops 7 Zombies storyline. New weapons, operators like Spectre, and innovative multiplayer modes promise a high-octane season for all players.
OpenClaw Machines offers an open-source, self-hosted platform for running AI agents with enterprise-grade security and cost efficiency. It utilizes Firecracker microVMs for hardware isolation on your own Linux servers, providing full data sovereignty and predictable costs, especially at scale. The platform includes a control plane for orchestration, a Cloudflare data plane for secure access, and integrated LLM proxying.
Meta Platforms saw its stock surge 15% last week, the best run since early 2024, following the unveiling of "Meta Compute." This new initiative aims to monetize Meta's extensive AI infrastructure by selling computing capacity and models to external clients, addressing investor concerns over massive AI spending. While Wall Street embraced the potential for significant EPS growth, Meta faces challenges, including its lack of experience in the cloud market and competition from entrenched hyperscalers.
Meta has launched Muse Image, its inaugural AI image generation model from Alexandr Wang's Superintelligence Labs. Integrated across Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, the tool allows users to create images from text, modify existing photos, and even generate content featuring friends from public Instagram posts, while offering an opt-out for privacy. This marks a significant step in Meta's aggressive push into the AI domain.
Meta's extreme actions against ex-employee Sarah Wynn-Williams highlight how NDAs, non-disparagement clauses, and binding arbitration are weaponized to silence whistleblowers. This calculated strategy deters future disclosures, revealing potent implications for corporate power and employee rights.
India's IT ministry has ordered Meta to immediately remove Instagram ads promoting child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSEAM) and explain how they passed review within seven days. This action follows a BBC investigation that revealed paid ads redirecting users to illegal content, placing Meta's critical 'safe harbour' protection at risk in its largest user market.
Meta has discreetly launched Pocket, an experimental AI-powered app that enables users to generate and share interactive mini-games, or "gizmos," using text prompts. The app, born from Meta's acquisition of the Gizmo team, marks a strategic move into AI-driven content creation, featuring a feed for user-generated experiences.
Micron Technology has become a Wall Street favorite, with its valuation soaring amidst booming demand for AI memory chips, particularly High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Its stock surged over 236% in a month, briefly surpassing Meta and Tesla's market cap, driven by blockbuster earnings and strategic long-term agreements to mitigate market volatility.
The Ray-Ban Meta Optics smart glasses represent a significant step forward for those who need prescription eyewear but also desire the integrated tech of Meta's wearables. While the improved fit and subtle design make
A Meta Quest 3 external battery explosion in a Maine home caused a small fire, with security footage capturing the aftermath including panicked dogs and flaming debris. Thankfully, no one was directly injured, but the incident highlights the inherent dangers of rechargeable batteries in consumer electronics. The Frankfort fire department is investigating and warns VR owners.
The digital world paused on a recent Friday morning as Meta's core platforms – Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp – experienced a significant, widespread outage. As an experienced tech reviewer, this wasn't a
A recently laid-off Meta employee has been detained by US immigration agents in El Paso, Texas, according to internal company communications. The incident highlights the critical vulnerability of visa-holding tech workers during mass layoffs and has sparked urgent concern among current Meta staff.
Instagram is alerting users targeted by hackers who exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to take over accounts. The simple attack, involving asking the bot to link accounts to hacker-controlled emails, continued even after Meta claimed a fix. The incident highlights critical security flaws in AI-driven support systems.
Acer's surprise smart glasses launch introduces the AR Vision GR0 AR headset and GI0 AI Glasses. The GR0 offers immersive, wired AR with broad compatibility, while the GI0 is a stylish, wireless Meta Ray-Ban competitor with Google Gemini AI, a camera, and translation features.
Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht arrived in Seattle the same day Meta disclosed nearly 1,400 local layoffs, signaling a complex period for the tech giant. Meanwhile, robot pizza startup Picnic shut down, and corporate America grapples with the rising costs of AI, including practices like "tokenmaxxing" that inflate expenses. These events highlight a tech industry facing both opulence and economic realities.
Meta is projected to surpass Google as the world's largest digital advertising company by the end of 2026, with Emarketer forecasting Meta's global net ad revenues to reach $243.46 billion. This historic shift is driven by Meta's AI-powered Advantage+ ad suite and the expansion of new ad surfaces across WhatsApp and Threads, significantly outpacing Google's ad growth.
Apple, Google, and Meta have rolled out new opt-in features to combat sophisticated government spyware targeting at-risk individuals like journalists and dissidents. These protections, including Apple's Lockdown Mode, Google's Advanced Protection Program, Android's Advanced Protection Mode, and WhatsApp's Strict Account Settings, harden devices and accounts against tools that grant attackers full data access. Experts strongly recommend activating these proven defenses.
Meta employees across several US offices have launched a visible protest against the company's new mouse-tracking software, the “Model Capability Initiative,” just days before widespread layoffs are set to impact 8,000
A talented modder has achieved the seemingly impossible: running the entirety of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind inside Fallout 4's PipBoy. This incredible mod leverages OpenMW and a custom F4SE plugin to stream the classic RPG in real-time. It requires both games and a decent PC, but offers a truly unique meta-gaming experience.
AI startup Thinking Machines Lab (TML) is rapidly expanding its talent, attracting key researchers like Weiyao Wang from Meta amidst a competitive, reciprocal talent exchange. TML also secured a multibillion-dollar Google Cloud deal for Nvidia's GB300 chips, bolstering its position and making it a prominent player in the AI landscape.
Meta Platforms is set to commence a significant company-wide restructuring on May 20, initiating layoffs that will impact approximately 8,000 employees, representing 10% of its global workforce. This substantial
"Pokémon Champions" launched on Switch aiming for a fresh competitive entry point, but its first tournament confirmed a familiar fear: Incineroar still overwhelmingly dominates the meta, mirroring past competitive seasons. Despite a buggy launch, over 500 players competed, quickly establishing a top tier of familiar Pokémon.
The exciting wearables market is increasingly entangled in complex legal battles, from health trackers like Whoop suing competitors Bevel and Polar, to smart glasses companies accusing Meta of patent infringement. This review explores how these lawsuits could stifle innovation and impact consumer choices.
Meta has indefinitely paused its collaboration with data vendor Mercor due to a significant security breach that could expose proprietary AI training data. The incident, confirmed by Mercor on March 31, is linked to the TeamPCP hacking group and impacts crucial information for major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. This supply chain attack highlights the vulnerabilities in the AI ecosystem and the sensitive nature of data used for model development.
Pokémon Legends: Z-A's new Mega Evolutions are finally getting their abilities in the upcoming battle simulator, Pokémon Champions. We've got the first details on powerful new abilities like Mega Sol for Meganium and Dragonize for Feraligatr, alongside returning fan-favorites like Protean for Greninja. This fresh wave of abilities promises to shake up the competitive meta, with many more reveals still to come for the almost 50 new Megas.
