Seven million cameras on seven million faces: the smart glasses privacy crisis no one can stop
Seven million cameras on seven million faces: the smart glasses privacy crisis no one can stop

  The woman was shopping in London when she noticed something odd about the man approaching her. He wore sunglasses indoors, asked her name, told her she was gorgeous. What she did not notice was the almost invisible camera embedded in the frames of hi…

How to turn off Instagram’s new Instants feature and retract photos you accidentally shared

While the Meta-owned social network billed Instants as a new format to share real-life moments as they’re happening, many users are looking for a way  to turn off the feature, especially those who have ended up accidentally sending images to others not…

Meta is testing an AI bot to unleash the same online stupidity that is AskGrok on X

Meta is testing an AI bot on Threads that works just like Grok on X, responding publicly to user mentions in conversations.

You can’t block Meta’s AI bot on Threads. I don’t know what we did to deserve this.

Threads users are furious after discovering Meta’s new AI chatbot cannot be blocked like any other account on the platform.

Meta says WhatsApp is now the safest app to chat… with an AI

WhatsApp now has a private incognito mode for Meta AI chats, where messages disappear and even Meta cannot read your conversations with the assistant.

Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos
Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos

Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls “Instants,” which are ephemeral photos that you can’t edit and that you can only share with your close friends or followers that follow you back. Instants are available globally beginning on Wednesday as a feature in the […]

Instagram’s new ‘Instants’ feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal

The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their Close Friends or mutual followers that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours.

Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat
Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is “the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.” Messages in Incognito Chat aren’t saved or stored in users’ chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, but Meta says its version is different because it […]

Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsApp, the first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read
Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsApp, the first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read

The new mode runs Meta AI on WhatsApp inside the company’s Private Processing enclave, with conversations deleted by default and no server-side record retained. Meta has launched an Incognito Chat mode for Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, an ef…

WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats

Meta said these incognito conversations are not saved, and messages will disappear by default once you close the chat.