2026-03-09
Curious as to what happens when the kids move to group text messages and private options. It will be far more difficult to keep an eye on what's going on. — There will also be lots with fake profiles leaving them harder to identify but open to abuse with viable “I thought they were adults” excuses. …
TechCrunch
A look at the countries moving to ban social media for kids in recent months, like Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Spain
2026-03-08
Curious as to what happens when the kids move to group text messages and private options. It will be far more difficult to keep an eye on what's going on. — There will also be lots with fake profiles leaving them harder to identify but open to abuse with viable “I thought they were adults” excuses. …
TechCrunch
A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia
Over the past few months, several countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens.
2025-02-27
That's one helluvan “error” [embedded post]
CNBC
Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations
Meta apologized on Thursday and said it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users reporting a flood …
2025-02-09
But does it really? Feels like it just plays on the basic statistics of language. An error rate of 30% or there abouts isn't great. — ($20 says I fall down this rabbit hole this week lol) [embedded post]
MIT Technology Review
Meta shares work on a system that uses a magnetic scanner and a deep neural network to analyze brain signals and identify which keys people pressed while typing
Back in 2017, Facebook unveiled plans for a brain-reading hat that you could use to text just by thinking.