On December 6th, 2025 with 22 comments
Meta has officially confirmed it is shifting investment away from the metaverse and VR toward AI-powered smart glasses, following a Bloomberg report of an up...
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On November 5th, 2024 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta will allow U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its...
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On September 23rd, 2024 with 150 comments
Amazon, Meta, and Tesla were named by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) as some of the worst corporate underminers of democracy . These...
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On January 6th, 2024 with 32 comments
25 years ago, Slashdot's CmdrTaco posted an announcement from Slashdot reader #257. "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete...
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On January 2nd, 2024 with 17 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Facebook recently rolled out a new "Link History" setting that creates a special repository of all the links...
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On December 19th, 2023 with 147 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A bill that mandates tech giants pay news outlets for their content has come into effect in Canada amid an...
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On November 8th, 2023 with 8 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Facebook parent Meta is teaming up with Hugging Face and European cloud infrastructure company Scaleway to...
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On September 5th, 2023 with 21 comments
Starting in December, Facebook users in the U.K., France and Germany will no longer see a dedicated section for news articles. CNBC reports: Meta said Tuesday...
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On August 22nd, 2023 with 149 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blasted social media giant Meta on Monday over its decision to block local news...
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On August 2nd, 2023 with 25 comments
Meta on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. Reuters reports: ...
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On July 21st, 2023 with 27 comments
Earlier this week, Meta announced it has teamed up with Microsoft to launch Llama 2, its "open-source" large language model (LLM) that uses artificial...
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On July 14th, 2023 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is set to release a commercial version of LLaMA, its open-source large...
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On June 22nd, 2023 with 43 comments
Meta has confirmed that it will remove all news content from Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada, following the passing of the Online News Act by the...
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On June 14th, 2023 with 39 comments
TechCrunch's Kyle Wiggers writes: Not to be outdone by Google, Meta has released its own AI-powered music generator -- and, unlike Google, open-sourced it....
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On May 9th, 2023 with 88 comments
A study commissioned by Meta has found that the metaverse could contribute around 2.4% to U.S. annual GDP by 2035, equating to as much as $760 billion. Reuters...
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On December 6th, 2022 with 161 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Facebook parent company Meta on Monday threatened to remove news from its social media platform in the US if...
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On April 14th, 2022 with 15 comments
In a Twitter thread earlier today, Meta CTO Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth teased a web version of Horizon Worlds, the company's virtual reality platform that's an...
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On February 17th, 2022 with 54 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase has set up shop in the Metajuku mall. The bank's lounge features a...
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On January 1st, 2022 with 16 comments
Another 12 months gone by, and with it nearly 8,000 new Slashdot headlines — so which ones drew the most views?
Click here for lists of Slashdot's top...
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On December 29th, 2021 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Markets Insider: Andrew Kiguel, CEO of crypto-asset investment firm Tokens.com, estimated his metaverse portfolio is...
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On October 19th, 2017 with 207 comments
Slashdot turned 20 this month, which is ancient in internet years. How far have we come? Also, we've set up a page to coordinate user meet-ups around the world...
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On July 28th, 2015 with 552 comments
An anonymous reader writes: DHI Group Inc. (formerly known as Dice Holdings Inc.) announced plans to sell Slashdot Media (slashdot.org & sourceforge.net)...
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On July 19th, 2015 with 75 comments
If you were browsing the site on Thursday, you may have noticed that we went static for a big chunk of the day. A few of you asked what the deal was, so here's...
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On December 13th, 2012 with 84 comments
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Foundation has posted blog article article talking about the remarkable surge in donations they've received in the last...
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On November 1st, 2012 with 47 comments
A lot of people in a lot of places celebrated Slashdot's 15th anniversary by getting together with other Slashdot readers in person. In the Tampa Bay part of...
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On October 24th, 2012 with 291 comments
As tablets and computer-phones flood the market, the headlines read:
"The Personal Computer is Dying." But they are only half true: an
artifact of the PC is...
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On October 17th, 2012 with 20 comments
I recently sat down with Chris DiBona to talk about the 15th anniversary of Slashdot. In addition to discussing the joys of heading an email campaign against...
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On October 15th, 2012 with 78 comments
In the summer of 1999, Bruce Perens became our very first interview subject, answering questions about open source licensing. Almost 14 years later, Bruce is...
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On October 2nd, 2012 with 113 comments
I recently sat down with one of our co-founders, Jeff "hemos" Bates, to talk about Slashdot's 15th anniversary and the world of niche news. Because history was...
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On September 18th, 2012 with 466 comments
wiredmikey writes with the press-release version of news that we'll probably be updating as more details trickle down to the editors: "Dice Holdings (Owner of...
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