Meta’s Oversight Board says account bans lack due process, transparency

Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent governing body that makes policy recommendations to the tech company, said Thursday that Meta’s account deactivations lack due process, violations are doled out without clarity, and there’s little customer support for appeals. The board, which recently received increased funding to continue its work through 2028, launched the investigation into Meta’s…

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Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights

Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model. It generates expressive speech from both text and audio context. The model uses residual vector quantization (RVQ) to widen its sonic range. This avoids scaling a single flat vocabulary while keeping parameter count fixed. What is MisoTTS MisoTTS is an 8B-parameter text-to-dialogue RVQ Transformer. It…

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