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On Monday, October 20, 2025, at around 9:00 Central European Time, a major failure occurred in the infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS), temporarily disabling a number of popular online platforms. Affected services include Snapchat, Duolingo, Roblox, Fortnite, Clash Royale, Playstation, Zoom, Viber, Clash of Clans, Facebook, Google, as well as other services relying on Amazon's AWS cloud solutions.
Meta has added group chats to Threads—its social network that competes with X. This update allows users to create private conversations with friends or communities without leaving the platform.
Meta has updated the Meta AI app and added a new Vibes tab, a feed where you can create, remix, and share short videos generated by artificial intelligence. To create a video, it is enough to describe what should happen on the screen in text.
At the Meta Connect 2025 conference, Meta presented a new generation of smart glasses created in collaboration with Ray-Ban and Oakley. These devices combine stylish design with augmented reality (AR) functionality. As you can see, the company continues to develop its "meta-universe", no matter what sceptics say.
Since Instagram's launch in October 2010, it has never had a native iPad app, despite the fact that the first iPad was released at the beginning of that year. Since then, a new generation of people has been born, Instagram itself has been bought out by Facebook, but tablets could use either the web version or the non-adapted version for iPhone. In response to numerous requests from users and journalists, the service's management has repeatedly bolted that there are no plans to release a tablet version of the app for any reason, it's just not a priority. What the team has been doing with this higher priority all this time has also never been disclosed.
WhatsApp has introduced Writing Help, a new AI tool that allows you to reword, edit, or change the tone of your message directly in WhatsApp. It's a perfect tool for people who have trouble formulating complex sentences. Parents' chats and porch chats should become like literary evenings.
Australia is expanding a law banning social media for children under 16 to include YouTube. The new law will impose age verification and fines of up to $32.2 million.
Beeper has been updated: now in the free version you can connect up to 5 messengers directly from your device, without the cloud and with end-to-end encryption. Simplified interface, more privacy and no subscription - if you just want to merge chats.
Silicon Valley smells like panic. And the name of this panic is Mark Zuckerberg. While Apple shyly agrees to integrate third-party AI models into Siri and OpenAI is patching up the holes in the team, Zuckerberg has opened an unlimited credit card and gone on a real brain hunt.
Meta is once again postponing the release of its flagship AI model Llama 4, known as Behemoth.
Meta has officially launched the first standalone Meta AI app, allowing users to interact with artificial intelligence not only on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger but also through a dedicated app.
Meta has admitted that there is too much spam on Facebook. Now the company promises to take action against the most active offenders.
Meta is moving Threads to a new domain, threads.com, and adding important updates to the web version. When Threads launched, the site was available on threads.net because the domain threads.com was owned by a messaging startup.
