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VR news of the week: Quest 3 Lite, Pico woes, SteamVR Theater, and a stacked November

Everything you need to know about the world of VR this week, including Meta's plans to steal Pico's Chinese market, AAA game releases in November, and a cool new SteamVR trick.

Android Central

The Meta Quest 3 Lite could cause big problems for Pico in China

Meta and Tencent have reached a provisional deal to bring Meta Quest VR headsets to China, and the first major product could be the Quest 3 Lite.

Android Central

Meta thinks AI labels on Facebook and Instagram can stop people being fooled by political deepfakes

The social media company is threatening to remove ads that don’t contain adequate disclosures

Evening Standard

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Why the Met are drilling down on drill music

The London drill scene has become a controversial censorship battleground finds Jonathan Kanengoni

Evening Standard

Advance Australia doubled donations to raise nearly $5m ahead of voice to parliament referendum

Documents lodged with corporate regulator also show the rightwing advocacy group spent $3.4m campaigning against Indigenous voice proposal

The Guardian - AU

We almost got the Google Play Store on Meta Quest headsets

The Meta Quest platform has a lot of good things going for it, and it could have been even better if Google and Meta could work together to get the Play Store in VR.

Android Central

AMD, Meta are working on revolutionary tech that could recycle petabytes worth of RAM

CXL could help save hyperscalers tens of millions of dollars while improving performance.

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2 Underperforming S&P 500 Stocks That Look Like Top Buys for 2024

While the S&P 500 Index is in the green this year, around half of its constituents are in the red. Disney and Enphase Energy are two underperforming S&P 500 components that look like top stocks to buy for 2024.

Barchart

The nuclear industry's dream of small modular reactors hits a snag

It's a big setback for the nuclear industry's dream of small modular reactors. But NuScale insists it learned a lot over the last 10 years it spent developing the Carbon Free Power Project.

Fortune

The Meta Quest 3 keeps me from crying in the kitchen

You've probably heard the term mixed reality before, but I bet you didn't know the Meta Quest 3's mixed reality mode could be so useful.

Android Central

Apple confirms major App Store changes are expected to hit iPhone soon

Apple has confirmed it expects to make changes to its App Store due to the EU's Digital Markets Act, which it must comply with by March 2024.

iMore

WhatsApp is getting ads, but it's not as bad as you think

You could see ads on WhatsApp but only if you use some of the more obscure features.

41 US states are suing Meta for getting teens hooked on social media. Here’s what to expect next

In the United States, 41 states have filed lawsuits against Meta for allegedly driving social media addiction in its young users (under the age of 18), amid growing concerns about the negative effects of platforms.

The Conversation

Barack Obama Doesn’t Think Big Tech Will Create Barriers To Entry

While Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management, Meta’s chief AI scientist, and others think stringent regulations are coming.

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Ex-Meta Engineer Raises Alarm On Teen Safety, Sparks Legislative Attention

Former Meta engineer’s testimony before U.S. Senate subcommittee put spotlight back on tech giant’s responsibilities

The Guardian - UK

Manor Solomon’s Instagram account ‘removed by mistake’, insists Meta

Meta has insisted Tottenham forward’s Instagram account was removed by mistake and not because of content related to support for Israel

The Guardian - AU

Sextortion in spotlight as AFP and Meta urge young Australians to report scams

eSafety commissioner says there has been a 117% increase in cases of image-based abuse in a year

The Conversation

Who will write the rules for AI? How nations are racing to regulate artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a label that can cover a huge range of activities related to machines undertaking tasks with or without human intervention. Our understanding of AI technologies is largely shaped by where we encounter them, from facial recognition tools and chatbots to photo editing software and self-driving cars.

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The Guardian - AU

RMIT’s fact check reinstated by Facebook two months after suspension over News Corp voice complaints

Exclusive: Meta suspended RMIT FactLab from Facebook’s fact-checking program after no campaigners claimed it was biased

WEKU

Meta failed to address harm to teens, whistleblower testifies as senators vow action

Former engineer Arturo Bejar says he repeatedly raised the alarm to company execs about Instagram's harm to teens and they failed to act. Senators vow to pass a social media law this year.

Fortune

Meta scrambles to stop political advertisers using its generative AI tools

Advertisers in politics and various regulated industries can't use Meta's genAI tools for now.

Evening Standard

How to use Instagram Wrapped, and is it legit?

An app not affiliated with Meta claims to offer stats about your Instagram. But does it?

The Independent UK

Former Meta engineering leader to testify before Congress on Instagram's harms to teens

On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, Arturo Bejar, then a contractor at the social media giant, sent an email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic

Digital Camera World

Ray-Ban lent its cool to Meta before, but new second-gen shades bring livestreaming

Meta and Ray-Ban is a combination we have seen before, but the new generation Stories are pushing the specs and possibilities

Tom’s Guide

Forget ChatGPT — OpenAI now lets you build your own chatbot for any task

ChatGPT creator OpenAI now lets users create their own custom chatbots that can be used for anything from creating the perfect menu to reminding you to do the laundry.

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