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Snapchat Wants Brands to Take Over the Entire App at Once
Snapchat has launched a new ad format that places a brand as the first ad across every tab in the app simultaneously, including Map, Chat,…
WhatsApp Is Testing Messages That Self-Destruct 15 Minutes After You Read Them
A new “After Reading” option spotted in WhatsApp’s Android beta starts a 15-minute countdown the moment a recipient opens a message, then deletes it from…
Instagram Now Wants to Turn All Your Images into Video
A new “AI Transition” feature spotted in development will use generative AI to create smooth, video-like animations between still images in Instagram Stories, replacing the…
The Scandal That Broke Facebook: Cambridge Analytica & the Dark Truth About Big Tech
On March 21, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg sat down in front of a camera and delivered one of the most carefully worded apologies in corporate history.…
Facebook Will Pay You Up to $3,000 a Month Just to Post
Meta’s new “Creator Fast Track” program offers guaranteed monthly payments to creators who already have large followings on rival platforms, asking only for 15 Reels…
Why You Now Have to Actually Add Value to Go Viral on Instagram
Updated guidelines clarify what counts as original content on Facebook and Instagram, penalise lazy reaction clips and reposts, and give creators new tools to detect…
Researchers Warn OpenClaw AI Agents Are Leaking User Data
China’s national cybersecurity agency has flagged serious vulnerabilities in the popular open-source AI agent, warning that weak default configurations and prompt injection attacks could let…
Instagram Finally Tests Clickable Links in Captions, But There’s A Catch
One of Instagram’s most requested features is finally being tested: clickable links in post captions. The catch is that it’s only available to Meta Verified…
How Instagram’s New Update is Exposing Every Reel You Send in DMs
Meta is quietly removing end-to-end encrypted messaging from Instagram, meaning the company will once again be able to access DM content. Users have until May…
AMD Joins Tech Giants to Rewire AI Data Centers With Open Optical Standards
AMD has joined forces with Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI to create the Optical Compute Interconnect consortium, an effort to replace copper wiring in…
Facebook Marketplace Can Now Write Your Listings and Ship Your Gear
Meta rolls out AI tools that auto-generate product listings from a single photo, draft replies to buyers, and create seller trust profiles across Marketplace’s 1.1…
Your New Facebook Friend Request Will Now Come With A Warning
After removing 159 million scam ads and taking down 10.9 million accounts linked to criminal networks last year, Meta is deploying new on-device detection, suspicious…
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the AI Social Network Where Bots Make Religions
The acquisition of the viral experimental app, along with the hiring of its co-founders into Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, is the clearest signal yet that Zuckerberg…
