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Meta Plans AI Pendant, New Smart Glasses in ‘Wearables for Work’ Expansion

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant as part of a broader wearable hardware push that includes smart glasses and workplace tools.

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Meta Adds Paid Subscription Tiers Across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

Meta is launching paid tiers for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp while testing new AI, creator, and business subscriptions.

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Meta Layoffs Leave Employees Wary Despite Zuckerberg’s Reassurance

Meta employees are questioning Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to avoid more company-wide layoffs this year as the company restructures around AI.

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New WhatsApp Flaws Could Affect Billions of Users After Meta Security Patch

Meta patched two WhatsApp flaws affecting iOS, Android, and Windows users, including bugs tied to risky files, links, and Reels previews.

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5 Best AI Photo Editing Prompts in 2026: How to Get Better AI Images

These five AI image-editing prompts can help improve backgrounds, outfits, headshots, product photos, and image quality across today’s top tools.

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Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams audiobook review – the insider story that Meta tried to stifle

The author reads her account of her time as a senior executive at Facebook with a mixture of dark humour and astonishment at the working culture in which she finds herself

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir documenting her seven years working at Facebook opens, unexpectedly, with a shark attack. The New Zealander was 13 years old and swimming in the sea when the shark bit her torso and shook her from side to side. She lived to tell the tale, but her near-death experience awakened in her a desire to leave the world better than she found it.

Wynn-Williams went on to take a job at Facebook’s public policy department in 2011, having seen the potential of the platform as a global meeting place. But what she found was a senior staff high on power and untroubled by ethical concerns such as privacy or the dissemination of hate speech and misinformation. All were resistant to political interference and dedicated to rapid expansion, no matter the consequences, claims that Meta has called out of date and false. The author also encountered a working culture where employees enjoyed perks but had to be available around the clock – a situation that led to her responding to emails while in labour.

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Samsung Galaxy Glasses Leak: Pricing, Specs, and Launch Timeline Revealed

Samsung’s rumored smart glasses may challenge Meta with AI features, display-free design, leaked pricing, and a possible 2027 AR roadmap.

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