Facebook owner Meta has announced an ambitious plan to build the longest undersea cable network that will reach five major continents and span over 50,000 km which is longer than the Earth’s circumference. Dubbed Project Waterworth, it will be the world’s longest underwater cable project and would provide ‘industry-leading connectivity’ and help support artificial intelligence … Read more
Meta, Facebook‘s parent company, faces a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement and unfair competition in training its LLaMA AI model, according to court records revealed by vx-underground on X. First reported by Tom’s Hardware, vx-underground’s post on Twitter claims how court documents from February 5th, 2024, in Kadrey v. Meta show Meta (formerly Facebook) … Read more
Facebook-parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said that he was “almost sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan”. At a Joe Rogan podcast, Zuckerberg raised concerns about the ongoing legal challenges his company faces in Pakistan due to a lawsuit over alleged blasphemous content on Facebook.According to reports, the lawsuit accuses Facebook of hosting content … Read more
2025-01-30 06:57:00 : Washington: According to three people familiar with the matter, Meta has agreed to pay $ 25 million to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuits filed with the company after he suspended his account attack on January 6, 2021. This is the latest example of a large company and the president who resolve the … Read more
Los Angeles: DJ Unk, the Atlanta rapper known for his hits ‘Walk It Out’ and ‘2 Step,’ has died at the age of 43. The news of his death was confirmed by his family members and his former label, Big Oomp Records. Born Anthony Platt, Unk was a key figure in snap music, a subgenre … Read more
2025-01-24 14:25:00 : NCLAT’s decision is a major relief of the US technology giant. The giant has 850 million to 350 million user bases on Facebook, and has more than 500 million on WhatsApp. Mint Explain the decision of the entire case and NCLAT. What is NClat’s judgment? NCLAT Chairman Ashok Bhushan and technical member … Read more
San Francisco, US: With the shadow of a tumultuous ban still looming over TikTok in the United States, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is offering to pay a large sum of money to popular content creators on the “third party” social media app who join Facebook and Instagram. The company said select creators will get up … Read more
Meta has issued a statement, denying claims circulating on social media that Facebook and Instagram users were forced to follow President Donald Trump’s official accounts. The company said the changes noticed by the users were standard practices, often followed when there is a transition from the previous administration to the incoming one. “People were not … Read more
2025-01-23 11:04:00 : NEW DELHI: The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal on Thursday granted relief to Meta Platforms, upholding a five-year ban imposed by India’s competition regulator on WhatsApp’s data-sharing practices. The NCLAT bench, headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan, noted that such a ban was related to WhatsApp’s privacy policy and could disrupt WhatsApp’s business … Read more
2024-10-22 04:30:04 : New Delhi: Three years after a data privacy controversy forced Meta Platforms to discontinue its facial recognition feature, the Mark Zuckerberg-led parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is reviving the controversial technology. But this time, it’s rolling it out very carefully, slowly, and only for some very selective purposes. David Agranovich, … Read more