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    Meta fined more than $100 million for storing passwords in plaintext.

    The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the fine against Meta’s EU branch, saying the company “failed to notify”. the DPC that it “inadvertently” stored user passwords without encryption in 2019.

    Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta Ireland €91 million | Data Protection Commission

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    Mark Zuckerberg thinks AI is going to make phones “a lot more exciting.”

    In an interview with The Verge, Zuckerberg said phone makers like Apple and Google can do a lot with AI in phones that app developers can’t:

    If I were at any of the other companies trying to design what the next few versions of iPhone or Google’s phones should be, I think that there’s a long and interesting roadmap of things that they can do with AI that, as an app developer, we can’t.

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