Meta must grant rival AI chatbots access to WhatsApp within five days, EU orders

“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff.

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A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.

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Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta's chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

An intruder has breached the French government’s encrypted messaging service, Tchap, showing once again that human error is a weak spot in any security system. Tchap was developed in France as an example of national sovereignty and was designed to be a more secure option than WhatsApp for communication between government employees. In this case, it wasn’t the technology that was at fault, but a user: The intruder gained access to the system by taking over their account, according to DINUM, the French government’s interministerial digital directorate. DINUM said it has blocked the affected user’s access and is investigating how much information has been revealed. While the system’s encryption was not broken, the intruder would have been able to view unencrypted public chat rooms accessible to the account taken over, potentially affecting 73,467 of the system’s 825,000 users, DINUM said. That matches at least part of a post on X (formerly Twitter) reporting the intruder’s claim to have a