Meta is rolling out new commercial terms of service, effective October 30, that require business accounts to allow Meta's bots to crawl and use content from any websites linked to those accounts, not just their social media posts. Businesses cannot opt out of this provision; the only alternative offered is to stop using Meta's services. Nieman Lab reported that the change would affect virtually every news organization with a Meta business account, since nearly all maintain one.
Following the launch of Apple's iPhone Duo, Apple and several third-party accessory brands including Pitaka, Spigen, SANDMARC, Nomad, and Burton Goods have released cases for the device. Options span Apple's own TechWoven and Folio cases ($79 and $129), aramid fiber builds, and full-grain leather covers, with some models discounted or offered with promo codes.
Meta launched an open-weight version of its Muse Spark LLM called Muse Spark Open, allowing users to download and run the model on their own hardware rather than access it only via cloud service. The model has 816 billion parameters and a 1-million-token context window, which Meta says makes it the most capable open-weight model available in the U.S. Apple collaborated with Meta to ensure the model runs efficiently on Mac Studio hardware.
A video clip of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wincing after drinking a Guinness circulated widely online, drawing significant attention and commentary. The moment became a talking point largely because it showed an unscripted, relatable reaction from a billionaire tech executive.
Tesla unveiled a prototype of its long-delayed next-generation Roadster at a livestreamed event in Waco, Texas, nearly ten years after first taking deposits for the car. The two-seat vehicle demonstrated stunts including clinging upside down to a ramp, flipping mid-air and hovering. CEO Elon Musk said production would begin in 2028, gave no price, and said it would be the company's last model designed for a human driver, lacking its automated driving system.
YouTuber and Thermal Grizzly founder der8auer examined a two-year-old liquid metal thermal paste application under an electron microscope and found it hadn't dried out as commonly assumed. Instead, the gallium reacts with copper surfaces to form a solid compound, with crystals visible by the two-month mark and no further change after two years. He also showed the same gallium-based alloy corrodes and weakens aluminum within minutes by traveling along grain boundaries.
Meta is updating its commercial and self-serve ad terms, effective October 30th, with language authorizing it to deploy web crawlers and bots on domains "associated" with businesses using its advertising platforms, including news publishers. The terms state Meta can use that content to develop, improve, research, and train its AI products. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the move simply consolidates existing ad terms and denies any change to how the company uses web crawlers.
Child protection campaigner Simmons-Read warned that the UK's planned 2027 ban on social media for under-16s 'doesn't go far enough' and could be circumvented by criminals, potentially also deterring young people from reporting grooming. He called for tech platforms to invest more in detecting exploitation as it happens. The government said it is drafting legislation to block children from viewing or sharing nude images on devices, while Meta said it restricts contact between adults and unconnected teens and uses behavioural signals to flag possible grooming.
Meta is updating the commercial terms of use for its Business Suite accounts, effective October 30, to authorize web scraping of websites 'associated with' those accounts, including news organizations' sites. The updated language says Meta can use automated tools to access, index, cache, and collect content, and explicitly states that collected material can be used to train Meta's AI products.
On WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast, hosts Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger spoke with reporter Reece Rogers about testing Meta's AI agent Muse, discovering it would engage in sexual roleplay beyond its advertised calendar-management functions. The episode also covered a pro-AI super PAC network directing millions of dollars through LLCs, criticism of Apple's new HomeView feature, and a study on men overestimating their AI knowledge.
Meta launched Muse Spark Open, which it describes as the most capable open-weight AI model in the US, featuring 816 billion parameters and a 1 million token context window. The model is multimodal, built for coding and agentic tasks, and designed to run locally on Apple hardware, though it requires at least 1 terabyte of RAM and performs best on a Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra chip. Meta paired it with its Muse Code coding terminal and demonstrated it fixing a Mastodon client and editing footage in DaVinci Resolve.
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model with 816 billion total parameters, 42 billion active parameters, and a 1 million-token context window, designed for coding and multi-step agentic tasks. The model is optimized to run locally across two Mac Studios equipped with 512GB M5 Ultra chips using Apple's MLX framework, which Meta calls the best desktop setup for running a powerful model. Apple has not yet released the 512GB Mac Studio, though it is expected later this month.
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