Slashdot.org Stories for 2023

Meta's News Ban In Canada Remains As Online News Act Goes Into Effect 147
Threads Launches In the European Union 27
Xbox Cloud Gaming Is Now Available On Meta's Quest VR Headsets 5
Threads Adds Hashtags Ahead of EU Launch 11
Meta Publicly Launches AI Image Generator Trained On Your Facebook, Instagram Photos 28
Meta Defies FBI Opposition To Encryption, Brings E2EE To Facebook, Messenger 39
Facebook Kills PGP-Encrypted Emails 37
Meta Will Enforce Ban On AI-Powered Political Ads In Every Nation, No Exceptions 15
Valve Launches Official Steam Link PC VR Streaming App On Quest 25
Meta Designed Platforms To Get Children Addicted, Court Documents Allege 64
Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta 93
Meta's Head of Augmented Reality Software Stepping Down 8
MediaTek Partners With Meta To Develop Chips For AR Smart Glasses 7
Social Media Giants Must Face Child Safety Lawsuits, Judge Rules 53
Meta Taps Hugging Face For Startup Accelerator To Spur Adoption of Open Source AI Models 8
Meta Told To Stop Using Threads Name By Company That Owns UK Trademark 60
Meta's Threads App Has 'Just Under' 100 Million Monthly Active Users, Says Zuckerberg 23
'Apple Is Approaching Social On Vision Pro the Way Meta Should Have All Along' 69
Meta Quest 3 Is a Virtual Reality of Repair Insanity 22
Norway Wants Facebook Behavioral Advertising Banned Across Europe 8
Meta's Smart Glasses Can Take Calls, Play Music, and Livestream From Your Face 63
Meta Pays a Lot of Money To Break Lease On London Office Building 25
Meta Is Killing Two Oculus Quest Games Without Explanation 26
Meta's Horizon Worlds Avatars Finally Have Legs 37
Facebook Is Getting Rid of the News Tab In the UK, France and Germany 21
Meta Is Researching Turning Any Flat Surface Into a Virtual Keyboard 46
Trudeau Denounces Meta's News Block As Fires Force Evacuations 149
Meta's 'Massively Multilingual' AI Model Translates Up To 100 Languages, Speech or Text 14
Threads App Usage Plummets 64
Alibaba Challenges Meta With Open-Sourced AI Model Launch 13
Meta Releases AudioCraft AI Tool To Create Music From Text 25
Meta Is Reportedly Planning An Abe Lincoln Chatbot As Part of a Public AI Push 19
Most of the 100 Million People Who Signed Up For Threads Stopped Using It 119
Meta's Reality Labs Has Lost More Than $21 Billion Since the Start of 2022 64
'Meta's Newly Released Large Language Model Llama-2 Is Not Open Source' 27
Threads Usage Drops By Half From Initial Surge 167
Meta Faces a $100,000 Daily Fine If It Doesn't Fix Privacy Issues In Norway 26
Meta To Release Open-Source Commercial AI Model To Compete With OpenAI, Google 16
Democrats Call On DOJ To Investigate Tax Sites For Sharing Financial Information With Meta 29
Instagram's Threads Surpasses 100 Million Users 79
Threads Passes 30 Million Sign-Ups In Less Than 24 Hours 110
Meta Launches New Social Media App 'Threads' To Rival Twitter 45
Meta Is Planning To Let People In the EU Download Apps Through Facebook 28
Meta Launches VR Subscription Service 31
Meta Pulls News Content From Canadian Facebook and Instagram 43
Meta Says Its New Speech-Generating AI Model Is Too Dangerous For Public 61
Meta Open Sources An AI-Powered Music Generator 39
What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks About Apple's Vision Pro 103
More Than 2,000 Families Suing Social Media Companies Over Kids' Mental Health 92
Meta Threatens To Yank News Content From California Over Payments Bill 68
Facebook Parent In Talks With Magic Leap Over Augmented Reality Deal 13
Metaverse Could Contribute Up To 2.4% of US GDP By 2035, Study Shows 88
FTC Proposes Barring Meta From Monetizing Kids' Data 11
Meta Records Almost $4 Billion Loss On Metaverse In First Quarter 97
Zuckerberg Says Meta May Not Be Through With Layoffs 43
Facebook Users Can Now File a Claim For $725 Million Privacy Settlement 49
Meta Is About To Start Its Next Round of Layoffs 46
Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis At Meta 54
Meta Wants EU Users To Apply For Permission To Opt Out of Data Collection 27
Meta Winds Down Support For NFTs 17
Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations 8
Meta Plans Thousands More Layoffs As Soon As This Week 79
Meta's AR/VR Hardware Roadmap For the Next Four Years 29
Meta Is Working On 'AI Personas' For Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp 16
Meta Soars by Most in Decade, Adding $100 Billion in Value 12
Meta Abandons Original Quest VR Headset 54
Seattle Schools Sue TikTok, Meta and Other Platforms Over Youth 'Mental Health Crisis' 46