In our A Contributor’s Story series, our major open source contributors and community members give us insight into the projects they are working on, the successes and challenges contributors face when developing, and best practices for getting started ...

We’re introducing the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), our latest and fastest supercomputer for AI research.
The post Introducing Meta’s Next-Gen AI Supercomputer appeared first on Meta.

This past year has been full of challenges and opportunities. We pursued our mission of empowering diverse communities through open source technology with conviction. We launched many exciting projects and received contributions from developers worldwi...

We're sharing what we've learned about CIB over the past year and how we'll be evolving our threat reporting in 2022.
The post Recapping Our 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Enforcements appeared first on Meta.

We’re introducing data2vec, the first high-performance self-supervised algorithm that learns in the same way for speech, vision and text.
The post Introducing the First Self-Supervised Algorithm for Speech, Vision and Text appeared first on Meta.

We're launching an activity to help kids learn how to use the internet safely and practice making healthy decisions online.
The post Teaching Internet Safety on Messenger Kids appeared first on Meta.

Facebook Ordered Queueing Service (FOQS) is a fully managed, distributed priority queueing service used for reliable message delivery among many services. FOQS has evolved from a regional deployment into a geo-distributed, global deployment to ensure that data stored within logical queues is highly available, even through large-scale disaster scenarios. Migrating to a global architecture required [...]
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Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, Inc., has been elected to Meta's board of directors, effective immediately.  
The post Tony Xu Joins Meta Board of Directors appeared first on Meta.

In A Contributor’s Story series, our major open source contributors and community members give us insight into the projects they are working on, the successes and challenges contributors face when developing, and best practices for getting started in o...

Meta confirmed as a 2022 garden sponsor at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The post Joe Perkins Partnership Confirmed for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 appeared first on Meta.

Today, FORT shares Meta platform data with researchers around the world in a privacy-protective environment. Our focus has been on supporting computational social scientists who apply computational approaches to large-scale human behavioral data in ord...

In this blog post, we explain Proxygen, a collection of C++ libraries that makes it very easy to build clients, servers, and proxies, in a way that is super simple to understand. If you're interested in learning by watching or listening, check out a vi...

We're introducing a new place for you to learn about how we approach privacy across our technologies.
The post Introducing Privacy Center appeared first on Meta.

In A Contributor’s Story series, our major open source contributors and community members give us insight into the projects they are working on, the successes and challenges contributors face when developing, and best practices for getting started in o...

It’s no secret that people love sharing content – outfits of the day, indulgent dishes, workouts, design inspiration. You name it, people share it with their network, often turning to Stories on Facebook and Instagram to do so.

See how Jessica became part of a team of volunteer veterans through Facebook.
The post Healing and Rebuilding With Fellow Veterans appeared first on Meta.

In A Contributor’s Story series, our major open source contributors and community members give us insight into the projects they are working on, the successes and challenges contributors face when developing, and best practices for getting started in o...

In this Q&A, Vamivakas shares more about his research background, recent projects, the start of his collaboration with Facebook, his research interests, and his collaboration with Meta.

To celebrate the holidays, we’re bringing festive features to Messenger, from AR effects to gift-wrapped payments.
The post Celebrate the Season With Holiday Features on Messenger appeared first on Meta.

Meta honors Southern Africa’s small business owners and creators through its #Changemakers campaign.
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Meta Data for Good announces a new re-weighted version of displacement maps that aims to better represent displacement trends on the ground.

In order to effectively guide advertisers to optimal campaign setups, we are redesigning the objective selection experience when creating new campaigns in Ads Manager. We are moving to an Outcome based Ads Manager, where advertisers can select their de...

In A Contributor’s Story series, our major open source contributors and community members give us insight into the projects they are working on, the successes and challenges they face when developing, and best practices for getting started in open sour...

Meta announces the winners of the Mathematical modeling and optimization for large-scale distributed systems request for proposals

Conferences play a major role in the growth and development of any technologist. They are the place where you meet like-minded individuals, learn from each other, identify and adopt emerging technology and grow holistically as an engineer. All Things O...

Meta's Core Data Science team discusses opportunities for academics at Meta such as full-time employment, temporary employment, and dual affiliation.

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There are thousands of distributed services running on millions of servers in Meta’s data centers. Part of ensuring the reliability of those services means making them resilient to power loss events as our data center fleet grows. To help increase resiliency, we built the Power Loss Siren (PLS) — a rack level, low latency, distributed [...]
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We’re tackling the industry-wide issue of scraping by expanding our bug bounty program to reward valid reports of scraping bugs and unprotected data sets. To the best of our knowledge, this is an industry first.  Looking toward the future, we’re also launching new educational opportunities for researchers and hosting our first BountyConEDU — a three-day [...]
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Today, we’re excited to announce an early beta release of Bean Machine, a PyTorch-based probabilistic programming system that makes it easy to represent and to learn about uncertainties in the machine learning models that we work with every day.

To support the people and communities who use our apps and products, we need to stay in constant contact with them. We want to provide the experiences we offer reliably. We also need to establish trust with the larger community we support. This can be especially challenging in a large-scale, quickly evolving environment like Meta, [...]
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The post SLICK: Adopting SLOs for improved reliability appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

In August, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, launched the Building Tools to Enhance Transparency in Fairness and Privacy request for proposals (RFP). Today, we’re announcing the winners of this award.

2,500 km cable will expand access to high-speed internet [...]
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The post Malbec subsea cable connects Argentina and Brazil with the rest of the world appeared first on Facebook Engineering.

Discover an innovative and accessible way for small businesses to access tips and training.

Opeyemi Sofoluke talks personal branding, career planning—and what businesses can do to create a workplace where Black talent can thrive.

Enabling developers to prototype, test, and iterate on new features quickly is important to Facebook’s success. To do this effectively, it’s key to have a stable infrastructure that doesn’t introduce unnecessary friction. This gets significantly more challenging when the infrastructure in question must also scale to support more than 3 billion people around the world, [...]
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Until recently, static analysis tools weren’t seen by our industry as a reliable element of securing code at scale. After nearly a decade of investing in refining these systems, I’m so proud to celebrate our engineering teams today for being awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s Cybersecurity Award for Practice for development and deployment of static [...]
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Our services are now back online and we’re actively working to fully return them to regular operations.

Watch now to learn how Lidl successfully digitised its weekly leaflet.

Boost your fashion brand with insights from Facebook and the British Fashion Council.

Get the best tips to reach new customers, drive discovery and create more personalized shopping experiences this holiday season with Facebook Shops.

Facebook WiFi is an easy, affordable way for you to connect people, provide a digital experience to engage offline customers, and improve customer retention.

We're sharing three tips for creating content and showing you how Facebook Business Suite can make posting content easier for your business, every step of the way.

Reflections and insights on inclusion and a lack of Black women in leadership from a special panel conversation between BRiM and Bloom in Colour.

Facebook Business Suite brings together messaging, posting, insights and advertising tools all in one place. New time-saving features include scheduling and posting Stories.