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Our newest data center in Kansas City, Missouri is officially live and serving traffic!. By the numbers:.- $1+ billion investment in Missouri.- 1,500+ skilled trade workers at peak construction.- 100+ operational jobs when fully completed.- $1M+ in direct funding to local schools
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Gen AI is changing how we build privacy-first tech. This new talk by Meta software engineer Rituraj Kirti explores how we use Gen AI and automation to streamline privacy workflows, making it easier for developers to deploy purpose-limitation technology at scale. 📽️:.
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What do you want to know?.
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@fb_engineering
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Meta’s Federation Platform and Privacy Waves program powers 100K+ compliance tasks annually, driving efficiency and accountability for privacy, security & accessibility. By centralizing task distribution and accountability, we’re saving hundreds of thousands of engineering hours.
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Enforcing purpose limitation across a platform as large as Meta's is a complex task. This talk by Meta software engineer Diana Marsala explores 3 early paradigms—dynamic propagation, unified policies, and centralized checks—and why we eventually had to rethink them for long-term.
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What if you could control your computer with the slightest twitch of your finger or flick of your wrist? New research from Meta’s Reality Labs is pointing even more firmly toward wrist-worn devices using surface electromyography (sEMG) becoming the future of human-computer
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Ever wonder how Meta handles data privacy at scale? Watch this talk by Meta software engineer Danny Gagne as they dive deep into our data classification processes, from defining taxonomies to ensuring compliance with privacy policies like access control & data deletion. 📽️:.
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Meta is focused on constructing innovative and sustainable data centers to accommodate the growth of our business. We’ve started piloting mass timber (which typically entails less emissions than with manufactured steel/concrete) in construction at our data center campuses,
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Over the last year, ExecuTorch – an open-source solution for on-device inference on mobile and edge devices – has been operational across key Meta apps, incrementally improving on-device ML performance, privacy, and efficiency. Explore the technical buildups and results in our.
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We want to hear from you: What do you think is the most important aspect of protecting data in batch processing systems?.
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Ever wonder how Meta enforces privacy controls across large-scale batch processing systems? Meet Policy Zones, our state-of-the-art compliance technology that enforces purpose limitation while ensuring scalability, reliability, and a streamlined developer experience. Learn
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RT @AIatMeta: We're rapidly expanding our AI infrastructure and have adopted a novel approach of building weather-proof tents to house GPU….
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Silent data corruption is a critical challenge in AI training and inference. It can be especially harmful for AI systems that depend on accurate data both for training and providing useful outputs. To detect SDCs, we deploy a range of methodologies at various scales across our
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Take a look inside our Rosemount Datacenter, built using low-carbon, high-performance concrete that was designed with the AI tool.
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For technical details of the model and optimization algorithm, see our technical report ( and our open source SustainableConcrete repository with the associated data and code (.
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Concrete production is a major contributor to the embodied carbon emissions in data center construction and accounts for 8% of all global CO2 emissions. Our aim is to scale the use of low carbon concrete in data centers and advance our goal of net zero emissions in 2030.
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We’re proud to share that we’ve developed an open-source AI tool to design concrete mixes that are stronger, more sustainable, and faster to deploy. The tool uses Bayesian optimization with Meta’s BoTorch and Ax frameworks, and was built in collaboration with @Amrize and
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RT @AIatMeta: Today Mark announced Meta's major AI compute investment. See his post:
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@kotlin Check out this recent Meta Tech Podcast to learn more about some of the work we’ve been doing to translate roughly tens of millions of lines of Java code to @Kotlin: We’ve also open sourced various examples and utilities we used in our migration to.
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Meta has been working to shift its Android codebase from Java to Kotlin, a newer language for Android development that offers some key advantages over Java. We’ve even open sourced various examples…
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Engineering at Meta
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Ever wondered what it takes to modernize systems at massive scale? Tune in to the latest Meta Tech Podcast where we discuss a bold project to rewrite decades-old C code in Rust and how it will transform a central messaging library shared across Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, and
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We’re proud to announce that we’ve joined the @Kotlin Foundation as a gold member. This marks a significant milestone in our commitment to Kotlin and the broader Android development ecosystem. Learn more:
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