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Meta shows off Muse Charm, a standalone gadget for its AI agent
At the close of Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg briefly unveiled the Muse Charm — a compact, phone-free device built around Meta's Muse AI agent, promised to ship by December.
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Meta Connect 2026: VR glasses replace the headset, and smart glasses lose the camera
At its annual showcase, Meta unveiled 100-gram VR glasses, camera-free smart glasses, and new features for its Muse AI agent. The headline product ships in spring 2027.
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Meta's highly privileged AI assistant Muse hit by a serious 0-day
Muse, Meta's new AI agent with sweeping permissions, turns out to be vulnerable: one way to fully hijack it is a simple ClickFix attack.
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ZuckOff: an app that spots camera glasses by their Bluetooth signature
Camera glasses announce themselves over Bluetooth when they power on or pair. ZuckOff listens for those signals and warns you when Ray-Ban Meta, Snap Spectacles or similar hardware is nearby.
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Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from its store
The retailer has cut off the Muse assistant that shopped on users' behalf: Meta never told Amazon it was coming, and the agent, Amazon says, browsed without identifying itself and appeared to capture customer credentials.
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Meta's Muse AI Assistant Gets Tangled Up in How It Works
Meta's Muse assistant struck one user as downright creepy: it brought up a conversation it supposedly had no access to. As it turned out, the problem wasn't surveillance—it's that the AI doesn't understand how it works itself.
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Meta Preps a Camera-Free Smart Glasses Amid Surveillance Scandal
According to The Information, Meta may unveil camera-free glasses code-named Luna as soon as its Meta Connect conference — an attempt to shed the reputation of “creeper glasses.”
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Porn Producer Unmasks “John Doe”: The Pirate Turned Out to Be a Meta Executive
Strike 3 Holdings claims that the anonymous home torrent connection belongs to a director in the Reality Labs division, and it wants to tie his downloads to a $446 million lawsuit against Meta.
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Norway debates banning “pervert glasses” with built-in cameras
The country's authorities believe that camera-equipped wearables, such as the glasses made by Meta and Snap, pose privacy risks and need to be regulated.
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EFF: Meta's $17 Billion Deal With Prosecutors Means Surveillance and Age Checks for Everyone
Meta's settlement with 52 US state attorneys general locks in mandatory age verification for every Facebook and Instagram user and, in the view of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, does nothing good for teenagers.
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Meta Puts Robots to the Test in Its Data Centers Instead of Technicians
Meta is testing robotic arms and wheeled machines capable of switching cables, rebooting servers and inspecting equipment. Employees fear the automation will cut their jobs.
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Chris Mason Leaves Meta and Steps Down as Btrfs Maintainer
Btrfs creator Chris Mason is wrapping up his work at Meta and formally relinquishing his duties as the project's maintainer, while staying on as a code reviewer.
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Meta Scraps Plan to Replace Workers with AI: Agents Wreaked Havoc
An internal Meta project envisioned cutting some teams by 60% and handing routine work over to AI agents. But the agents began taking “large-scale destructive actions,” and the company abandoned the plan.
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Meta to Pay Up to $18 Billion in Suit Over Social Media's Harm to Teens
Meta has reached a settlement with a coalition of 52 state attorneys general. The company will impose daily limits, overnight lockouts and hide like counters for minors.
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Linux 7.3 Will Guard the System Against Hung EFI Firmware Calls
EFI changes have landed in the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel: firmware runtime-service calls now get a timeout, so that a single “hung” operation can't drag the whole of user space down with it.
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“Hook, hold, harvest, hide”: Meta on trial over children and privacy
A trial has opened in Oakland where California and 28 other states accuse Meta of building addictive products and violating children's privacy laws. Damages could reach $200 billion.
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The Lawsuit Against Meta Is Being Compared to Cases Against Tobacco Companies
A major lawsuit against Meta is drawing comparisons to the suits against the tobacco industry — so writes The Economist.
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Appeals Court Makes It Harder to Defend Platforms Under Section 230
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a denial of Section 230 immunity cannot be appealed immediately. The EFF warns that this will hurt not so much Meta as smaller sites and free speech online.
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WhatsApp Is Testing Scam Alert: On-Device Warnings About Fraudsters
The optional feature uses a local ML model to flag messages from strangers that show signs of fraud. The contents of the conversation never leave the device.
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Meta Releases Muse Glimmer — an Open Agentic Model with 30 Billion Parameters
Meta Superintelligence Labs has unveiled Muse Glimmer, a language model with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for always-on local agents.
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