I wonder if the only company that needs to build speech to text is Apple and all the other startups will die or get acquired once it does so. I only use it for coding on a mac and on my iPhone when driving.

proud of our teams contribution to this major launch. A privacy win for consumers.

Is it me or is Claude code getting worse? I kept getting frustrated by CC forgetting context and making wrong decision on a personal project. switched to Codex a few days ago. Significantly better! Have not had a single issue yet. I am not sure it is the model or the harness!

I've spent the past week anxiously following the news in Iran. Protests in the last few days have escalated and taken a dark turn. Thousands have been killed or arrested, and the government has cut off phone and internet access, leaving tens of millions of people unable to communicate.  My heart goes out to the innocent people who are affected by all this, including Iranians who live in the US and elsewhere. ❤️ Many are attempting to continue their studies or work and get through their daily lives under the immense pressure of wondering what's happening in Iran. Some who are financially supported by their families in Iran are in need now. Some may have lost friends or family members. Many can’t even contact their family members to know if they’re safe. There are others who might have traveled home to Iran for Xmas and are now stuck, unable to get a flight back.   Even those who aren't directly impacted are silently carrying an emotional burden. I've spent much of the past week feeling helpless and longing for some way to help or be involved. I miss the city of my birth and feel the suffering of the people there.  If you're reading this and you work with anybody from Iran, be mindful of what they might be going through. Consider giving them space and understanding, extending deadlines, offering tuition relief.... or just a hug. Much love and hope. ❤️

Happy to share our teams' work on Private Database Lookups currently in production for enterprise password checks and generally applicable for other lookup features.

Private Data Lookup (PDL) is one of Meta’s latest privacy-enhancing technologies. Learn how it helps improve password security and preserves privacy for people on our family of apps. engineering.fb.com/2023/08/0…

Today, we (@WhatsApp) announced our plans to deploy key transparency, as a way for users to be able to verify each other’s public keys “automatically”. Lots of details go into this, and are described in this blog post here: engineering.fb.com/2023/04/1… 🧵

Proud of the work done at WA (with my team's help ;)) to be a leader in privacy-by-design at scale. First E2EE backup and now Key Transparency that lets you verify your encryption keys are authentic with little friction: engineering.fb.com/2023/04/1… @_klewi @shiggschili

Woohoo! WhatsApp has released key transparency! engineering.fb.com/2023/04/1…

Some of our team members went on the Meta Tech podcast to talk about the work our team does at Meta. Leverage privacy enhancing technologies for data minimization at scale.

The Anonymous Credential Service is a recently open-sourced, highly available multitenant service that allows clients to authenticate in a de-identified manner. Tune in to learn from Alex and Haozhi how cryptography makes all of this possible. pca.st/episode/6a95e1cb-a02a…

What is the state of the art for internet censorship circumvention in both research and practical tools? How much better than the standard VPN services are they?

This will enable anyone to connect through servers set up by volunteers and organizations dedicated to helping people communicate freely. So when a connection to WhatsApp is blocked, people have the power to restore access. blog.whatsapp.com/connecting…

Really glad to see this happening with WA!

The crypto library for our anonymous credential service is open sourced. Take a look, provide feedback and contribute :)

We’ve built a better way for clients to authenticate in a de-identified manner ➡️ Meta has open-sourced Anonymous Credential Service (ACS), a highly available multitenant service. Here's how we developed ACS & how you can use it. #opensource ow.ly/W0zc50M1Ege

THANK YOU, SAN FRANCISCO #mahsaamini

When I started doing research in encrypted search 20 years ago, I made a commitment that I would see it through. In 2021 our company Aroki Sys. was acquired by @MongoDB and today I’m excited to announce that we’re releasing encrypted search in MongoDB: mongodb.com/blog/post/mongod…