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The latest Facebook news and guides, all in one place. Navigating one of the largest social media networks and keeping up with everything Mark Zuckerberg up to is no easy task, but Digital Trends offers in-depth coverage to help keep you informed. Here’s everything you need to know about Facebook.
Meta’s next smart glasses could ditch the camera to win back your trust
Meta is reportedly developing Luna, a camera-free pair of smart glasses with six microphones, Meta AI, speakers, and a side button for hands-free AI access.
Meta says its glasses can’t secretly record you anymore, at least not this way
Meta is closing a privacy loophole that allowed smart glasses users to hide the recording indicator while continuing to capture video.
Meta’s new teen restrictions will only apply to users in the US for now
Meta is introducing tougher protections for U.S. teens, including daily screen-time limits, overnight blocks, muted school-hour notifications and stronger parental controls.
Meta is putting hard limits on Facebook and Instagram after $17 billion settlement
Meta is promising major changes for teen users, including daily time limits, overnight blocks, hidden likes, algorithm controls and stronger parental supervision.
Meta pays $17 billion to settle social media addiction trial and promises tighter rules
Meta has agreed to pay a fine of $17 billion dollars to settle a lawsuit over harm done to kids due to the addictive nature of its social media platforms.
Threads wants to make podcasts easier to follow with transcripts
Threads is testing automatic transcripts for podcast clips, letting users follow along without turning on the sound.
Your next cinema trip could come with a Meta smart glasses ban
Meta's smart glasses are running into another roadblock, and this time your next movie night could be affected.
U.S. users can now vibe-code and share mini-games with Meta’s Pocket app
Meta’s Pocket is now rolling out in the U.S., letting users vibe-code simple game ideas into playable mini-games they can share and remix.
Meta’s smart glasses are the latest weapon for school bullies
Teens are using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to secretly film classmates and teachers at school, with the harassment disproportionately aimed at girls. Much of the footage stayed online until Futurism contacted Meta and TikTok directly.
Meta’s AI assistant finally lands on Mac, but it has some catching up to do
Meta has launched a Mac app for its AI assistant with screen sharing, dictation, and productivity tools for creators and businesses
One of the most controversial federal agencies is banning workers from using Meta smart glasses
ICE has banned Meta smart glasses from federal workplaces over privacy concerns, even as DHS seeks funding for purpose-built smart glasses that could support biometric identification during immigration enforcement.
New report says Meta pays influencers to fight social media bans for teens accounts worldwide
As countries move to ban teens from social media, Meta pays actors, psychologists, and parenting influencers across more than a dozen countries to argue against blanket ban for teen accounts.
Meta’s facial recognition smart glasses idea just resurfaced in a patent
A newly public Meta patent describes how its smart glasses could identify people using AI facial recognition and use that information when creating media.
Meta promised to stop creepy AI glasses videos, but they’re still all over Instagram
Instagram said it would get tougher on harassment filmed with Meta’s AI glasses. A month later, plenty of those videos are apparently still slipping through.
If you own Meta smart glasses then you may be banned from courts soon
Meta's smart glasses have been banned from courts in England and Wales, where officials fear their cameras could be used to secretly record proceedings.
Meta’s new AI model runs entirely offline, but your GPU needs to keep up
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a free 30B parameter AI model you can run entirely offline. No subscription, no data center, just a GPU with at least 24GB of VRAM.
Tech giants are gaga over AI, but employees say the AI race is making their jobs harder
AI companies say their tools help employees accomplish dramatically more, but workers describe punishing schedules. The emerging workplace battle may ultimately be about who gets to keep the time AI saves.
Caviar just gave Meta’s smart glasses the gold treatment but forgot to make it pretty
Luxury brand Caviar has unveiled a $6,840 version of the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, adding 24-karat gold accents and an alligator leather case.
Meta confirms its AI hacked another company’s system, and the pattern is anything but Irregular
Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models hacked into another company's system during a security test, making it the third company to report this kind of breach in recent weeks.
Meta served ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse content, continuing years of child safety failures
Researchers found Meta's ad library hosting AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, some posted even after Meta was warned, part of a pattern stretching over multiple years.
Australia just set a horrific example for creep behavior with low-cost smartglasses
Kmart's budget AI smart glasses are flying off shelves, but they're also reigniting a heated debate over privacy, surveillance, and whether wearable cameras have become a little too normal.
DuckDuckGo’s new smart glasses come with zero AI and 100% shade
DuckDuckGo and Knockaround just launched $35 sunglasses with no camera, no mic, and no AI, a cheeky jab at every smart glasses brand recording strangers without asking.
Meta used AI to make your Instagram feed harder to quit
Instagram's latest AI recommendation systems have gotten better at predicting what you'll watch next, and Meta says that's translated into more time spent scrolling.
Mark Zuckerberg wants AI superintelligence in everyone’s hands
Zuckerberg says Meta can put superintelligence in billions of hands. Its reach makes that plausible, but users would still depend on Meta to build the models, set the safeguards and define their limits.
Meta’s latest courtroom losses expose a potential hole in social media’s strongest defense
Two jury losses are testing whether Section 230 protects the design choices behind social media feeds, giving plaintiffs a possible route around the industry’s strongest legal defense without rewriting the law yet.
Meta AI is moving into your Threads DMs, where awkward AI chats belong
Meta is giving Threads users a more private way to use its AI chatbot, letting you ask questions and get context on posts right inside your DMs.
Facebook debuts Seller app for Marketplace and tests a TikTok-style video feed
Facebook is rolling out a standalone Seller app for Marketplace power users and testing a video-first home screen that mirrors TikTok's format.