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Meta in EU antitrust crosshairs for classified advertising practices

By Ellen Jennings-Trace Published

Meta could be the latest tech giant to face EU regulations.

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Australian Facebook and Instagram posts are feeding Meta's AI machine

By Zachariah Kelly Published

Meta has confessed to using the data of Australians on Facebook and Instagram to train its AI without the ability to opt out.

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Meta admits it scraped all Australian Facebook posts since 2007 to train its AI

By Ellen Jennings-Trace Published

Meta has been using Instagram and Facebook user photos and posts train generative AI models.

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Facebook ads for this fake AI image editor were just an excuse to infect your PC with malware

By Benedict Collins Published

Cybercriminals are using Facebook malvertising and the popularity of AI image editors to spread malware.

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Meta’s celebrity AI avatars go from celeb status to no-shows after they fail to hit the mark

By Kristina Terech Published

Meta has decided to discontinue its celebrity AI avatars after disappointing levels of user engagement.

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Fake Facebook ads for Windows desktop themes are actually sending out malware — here's what to know

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Security researchers uncover new malvertising campaign hiding infostealers behind Windows themes.

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Threads is celebrating its birthday with a hidden cake giving away cool new icons

By Jacob Krol Published

Threads is nearing its one-year anniversary and has hidden an easter-egg of sorts in the app that will let users unlock custom app icons.

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Meta business accounts increasingly being hit by cyberattacks

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Hackers want access to your Facebook ad campaign money, and more.

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Facebook will now let your business create entire ad campaigns using AI

By Craig Hale Published

New generative AI ad editing is coming to Facebook and Instagram as Meta rolls out new Verification tier subscriptions.

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Facebook will let AI generate comments and this is just another sign of the impending apocalypse

By Lance Ulanoff Published

You can now use generative AI to write Facebook comments if that's your thing.

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