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Facebook Messenger is Meta's cross-platform messaging app for text, voice, and video chat, integrated with Facebook and Meta AI features.

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  • Facebook Messenger

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scienceConfirmed3 publishers

ESA's Mercury orbiters cut themselves loose 200 million kilometres beyond real-time control

BepiColombo's transfer module let go on schedule, and the spacecraft ran the step without help from the ground. The two manoeuvres that decide whether the mission returns any Mercury data are still 79 and 97 days out.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 33%
Operator
Operator 57%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives40
Confidence74
securityOne report1 publisher

Meta AI's suggested question assembled two children's names, birth dates and a deleted photo

Kalie Robins clicked a question Meta AI put under a video of her daughter, and it returned both children's names and birth dates, a photo her mother had posted years ago, and one she says she deleted. Meta says it has fixed the prompting.

Publishers:malwarebytes.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption55
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Meta fixes the prompt that turned relatives' posts into a profile of two children

A viral video showed Meta AI naming a user's two daughters from years of posts uploaded mostly by relatives, and Meta says the assistant never should have asked the question that started it.

Publishers:qz.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption50
Hype gap+15
Incentives68
Confidence55
scienceConfirmed3 publishers

Roughness maps push Mercury's total contraction up by 10 to 30 percent

Mercury's lumpiest terrain carries the fewest shrinkage wrinkles, which the authors read as impact debris burying the record. Correct for that and total contraction rises to as much as 23 km, with the thermal models still to be redone.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 42%
Operator
Operator 33%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption18
Hype gap+22
Incentives40
Confidence66
productOne report1 publisher

Reuters found 39 more banking-malware ads still running on Meta after India's advisory

The apps posed as pornography and harvested one-time passwords. Both rounds of takedowns followed an outside prompt rather than Meta's own ad review, and that is why the paid channel is the story.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption30
Hype gap+14
Incentives74
Confidence48
buildOne report1 publisher

Meta's Hatch asks for account connectors in the first of three onboarding steps

Hatch is built to keep working with its app closed, so consent has to be banked up front and re-litigated later through an approvals surface. The pre-release build shows both, plus a recovery PIN that carries the private store between devices.

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption11
Hype gap+24
Incentives62
Confidence38