Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts(niemanlab.org)

429 points by 0in 10 days ago | 155 comments

Nieman Lab article reporting that Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30, let Meta scrape websites of business accounts using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

Threads isn't ever going to connect to Mastodon, so stop pretending that it is(knollslaw.substack.com)

62 points by ageitgey 3 years ago | 68 comments

Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations(niemanlab.org)

152 points by aspenmayer 1 year ago | 68 comments

Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them(sherwood.news)

248 points by wtcactus 9 months ago | 81 comments

Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'(nasdaq.com)

790 points by MindBreaker2605 11 months ago | 606 comments

RTTNews article on Nasdaq reporting that Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun will leave to launch a startup focused on world models.

Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say(apnews.com)

141 points by jethronethro 5 months ago | 45 comments

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts(niemanlab.org)

429 points by 0in 10 days ago | 155 comments

Nieman Lab article reporting that Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30, let Meta scrape websites of business accounts using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.(wsj.com)

587 points by jaredwiener 3 years ago | 417 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that Meta was fined $1.3 billion by EU regulators over transferring European user data to the U.S.

Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic(documentcloud.org)

381 points by wordhydrogen 2 years ago | 138 comments

Court filing in Klein v. Meta alleging Facebook's In-App Action Panel program used SSL man-in-the-middle techniques via Onavo to intercept Snapchat, YouTube and Amazon analytics traffic.

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case(nytimes.com)

418 points by mrjaeger 7 months ago | 201 comments

New York Times article on a verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial; the page loaded a captcha instead.

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents(interconnects.ai)

344 points by vantareed 4 months ago | 197 comments

Nathan Lambert's Interconnects post arguing that the GLM-5.2 model marks a capability threshold for open-weight agentic AI.