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I fell for a Coldplay concert ticket scam on Facebook – here’s how to avoid my mistake

IN FOCUS: Someone on your social media has tickets to a massive gig but they can’t make it any more – seems legit. Except, in Kate Solomon’s case it wasn’t, and revealed a new frontier of scamming that social media platforms are struggling to get a grip on

The Independent UK

Should a big tech tax fund news? A new report reopens debate on platforms and media

Meta’s announcement nearly eight months ago that it would no longer do commercial deals under the News Media Bargaining Code has led to much speculation as to how the government would respond.

The Conversation

Kevin Bacon, Julianne Moore, Thom Yorke, and 10K+ creators sign warning against AI use of their work

Celebrities sign petition warning about AI use of their work.

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Morning Mail: how Woolworths tracks and times its workers, Crisafulli faces abortion policy questions, Outback meets Succession

Changes to eliminate ‘time-wasting’ at warehouses condemned by workers

The Guardian - AU

Meta is reviving facial recognition for Facebook and Instagram three years after it shut down the tool—this time, to fight back against scammers

Meta says early testing has been promising.

Fortune

Batman: Arkham Shadow is the Meta Quest 3 game you’ve been waiting for

Batman: Arkham Shadow might not just be the best Meta Quest 3 game of 2024, it could be one of the best games of 2024. Period.

TechRadar

How long does the Meta Quest 3S battery life last?

As part of our initial Quest 3S testing, we checked how long the Quest 3S will last. Thankfully, it appears Meta was honest when it gave its battery life estimate.

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Labor concerned Meta may ‘sidestep obligations to pay for news’ as media bargaining code fight reignites

Social media company tells parliamentary committee Facebook and Instagram bring value to news outlets

The Guardian - AU

Instagram launches 'Teen Accounts' to combat sextortion of teenage users

Meta has said the new measures to keep teenagers safe on their platforms will be "guided by parents"

Digital Camera World

WhatsApp is about to introduce usernames so you can ditch those phone numbers

Regardless of the WhatsApp-connected device they hit save on, users will be able to add a contact and sync to their phone with new features.

Android Central

EY fired dozens of staff members who attended 2 video training meetings simultaneously

EY has already been forced to pay dearly for employees who abuse internal training and testing systems.

Fortune

Meta Resumes Facial Recognition Tech To Combat Celeb-bait Scams

The company will enroll around 50,000 public figures to launch a global trial in December, excluding major jurisdictions where it lacks regulatory clearance, such as Britain, European Union, South Korea, and Texas and Illinois in the United States.

International Business Times

It’s time Australia called in the big guns on the social media firms. Our democracy is at risk

Meta has made it very clear to Australians that they do not value our journalism or our public interest media

The Guardian - AU

Meta’s Threads suspends accounts showing private jet travel of billionaires like owner Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Taylor Swift

Jack Sweeney said all the Meta jet tracking accounts were suspended in recent days, save for two: one following the jet used by former President Donald Trump and one following the jet used by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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The Independent UK

Meta to scan people’s faces to check whether they are AI

The tech giant said it would use the technology as a new way of identifying fake celebrity endorsement adverts on its platforms.

Evening Standard

Meta starts testing facial recognition tools to combat ‘celeb-bait’ adverts

The tech giant said it would use the technology as a new way of identifying fake celebrity endorsement adverts on its platforms.

The Guardian - AU

Meta to use facial recognition technology in fight against celebrity investment scam ads

Social media company says it has seen ‘promising results’ in detecting the scam ads, which have included deepfake images of Gina Rinehart and Guy Sebastian

TechRadar

Want to have access to 96TB (yes Terabytes) of RAM? Check out this CXL expansion box that shows what the future of memory looks like

244 DIMM slots for a single server? That packs a serious punch.

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Meta AI on WhatsApp may soon give smarter, more personalized responses

WhatsApp recently gained a Meta AI chatbot, which allows users to rely less on other chatbot platforms. In the future, the same chatbot can give a more personalized response.

Android Central

Meta Quest 3S review: The next-gen VR console you can afford

The Meta Quest 3S is a fantastic budget VR console with impressive graphics, mixed reality capabilities, and thousands of games.

International Business Times

Gaming's Consolidation Spree Is Far From Over

Despite the harsh conditions the last year has left gaming in, social platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite continue to evolve into venues where people can hang out and participate in non-gaming activities.

TechRadar

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are majorly popular, which is exciting and frightening in equal measure

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are best sellers in Europe, and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

Fortune

Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg each got $76 billion richer this year—equal to Spotify's market cap

The increase in their wealth also exceeds the entire market cap of CVS, Target, and Capital One.

PC Gamer

Meta takes 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' to its logical conclusion as iFixit finds the Meta Quest 3S is mostly the same as the Quest 2

And at $299 for the 128 GB version, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Tom’s Guide

Meta Movie Gen looks incredible — 5 impressive examples

Here are the best uses of Meta Movie Gen we've found so far.

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