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Brazil fines Facebook $1.3 million for failing to comply with court orders during election

Brazil fines Facebook $1.3 million for failing to comply with court orders during election

Brazil’s top electoral court fines Meta’s Facebook $1.3 million for not fully complying with judicial orders during the recent presidential election runoff campaign
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Mark Zuckerberg's Net Worth Reaches $227 Billion, Ranks Fifth Globally Amid Philanthropic Pledges

Mark Zuckerberg's Net Worth Reaches $227 Billion, Ranks Fifth Globally Amid Philanthropic Pledges

Mark Zuckerberg's Net Worth Reaches $227 Billion, Ranks Fifth Globally Amid Philanthropic Pledges
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Brazil electoral court fines Meta, sees no deliberate election bias

Brazil electoral court fines Meta, sees no deliberate election bias

SAO PAULO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Brazil's electoral authority fined Meta's Facebook 7.5 million reais ($1.34 million) for failing to fully comply with judicial orders during last month's presidential election runoff campaign, but said there was no evidence so far the company had deliberately acted to
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Videowise Reports Brands Shifting Live Shopping to Owned Websites for Data Control

Videowise Reports Brands Shifting Live Shopping to Owned Websites for Data Control

Videowise Reports Brands Shifting Live Shopping to Owned Websites for Data Control
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5 Films Like The Social Network You'll Wish You'd Found Sooner

5 Films Like The Social Network You'll Wish You'd Found Sooner

Loved the story of ambition, genius, and betrayal in The Social Network? Here are five more films that capture that same lightning-in-a-bottle energy.
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Meta's Muse AI Agent Now Accessible on Smartwatches, Expanding Wearable Technology Integration

Meta's Muse AI Agent Now Accessible on Smartwatches, Expanding Wearable Technology Integration

Meta's Muse AI agent is now available on compatible smartwatches, including Apple Watch and Wear OS devices, marking an expansion of its accessibility. This development allows users to interact with the AI assistant directly from their wrist, without needing to open their phone. The smartwatch application functions as a companion app, offering voice conversations, text messaging, and voice recording interactions with Muse. The default interface features Muse's mascot, Jolly, as part of a clock face. This move follows an earlier tease by Mark Zuckerberg at Meta Connect, where he mentioned a dedicated Tamagotchi-like device, the Muse Charm, for accessing the agent, which is expected to be released later this year. Muse has seen significant initial success, with Sensor Tower data indicating over 10 million downloads within its first 40 days.
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Meta Introduces 'Your Algorithm' to Enhance User Personalization of Facebook Recommendations

Meta Introduces 'Your Algorithm' to Enhance User Personalization of Facebook Recommendations

Meta has launched 'Your algorithm,' a new suite of AI-powered tools designed to give Facebook users more control over their Feed and Reels recommendations. This end-to-end system addresses previous limitations in adaptability and nuance by allowing individuals to explicitly state their content preferences using natural language. A collection of large language models (LLMs) is tasked with understanding, storing, and tracking these stated preferences alongside user behavior, enabling the recommendation system to adjust content accordingly. The 'Your algorithm' interface features a 'Lately Summary' of recent viewing activity and two editable lists: 'Interested In' (prefilled with inferred interests) and 'Not Interested In' (for explicitly marked topics or creators). Users can add, move, or remove interests, with changes responsively applied to both Feed and Reels. The system employs dedicated logic across the recommendation funnel, from retrieval to reranking and delivery optimization, to ensure new preferenc...
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MySpace Reshaped Its Industry With a Single Strategic Move

MySpace Reshaped Its Industry With a Single Strategic Move

Before Facebook and TikTok, MySpace made a pivotal decision that forever changed the music industry and created the blueprint for the modern creator economy.
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Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Facebook Privacy

Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Facebook Privacy

Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Facebook Privacy
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Meta Halts Controversial Commercial Terms Amidst Widespread Criticism and Regulatory Pressure

Meta Halts Controversial Commercial Terms Amidst Widespread Criticism and Regulatory Pressure

Meta Halts Controversial Commercial Terms Amidst Widespread Criticism and Regulatory Pressure
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Is ‘I Play Rocky’ Original or Adapted? Stallone’s ‘Rocky’ Origin Story Faces a ‘Barbie’-Style Oscar Dilemma (EXCLUSIVE)

Is ‘I Play Rocky’ Original or Adapted? Stallone’s ‘Rocky’ Origin Story Faces a ‘Barbie’-Style Oscar Dilemma (EXCLUSIVE)

Sylvester Stallone wrote “Rocky” in three days. Figuring out which Oscar screenplay category the movie about him writing it belongs in is taking a lot longer. Amazon MGM Studios’ “I Play Rocky” has been the subject of multiple conversations among the studio, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences […]
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Australia regulator rejects warning of internet safety bill chilling free speech

Australia regulator rejects warning of internet safety bill chilling free speech

SYDNEY, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Australia's internet regulator on Tuesday rejected warnings from tech giants that a proposed online safety law would trigger widespread censorship by platforms anxious to avoid liability, arguing that their business models incentivised them to maximise user engagement.