Victor Barreiro Jr. is a Desk Editor at Rappler. He focuses on technology-related topics, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and the accountability of social media platforms, while also exploring themes related to family and relationships. Victor is featured in Rappler, Asia Pacific Report, and Newswav.
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By: Victor Barreiro Jr.
Here are list of changes Meta is planning to institute for Facebook and Instagram in the United States as part of a settlement with US states
By: Victor Barreiro Jr.
OpenAI says Apple 'cannot use its own sloppy procedures to blame others for its own mess'
By: Victor Barreiro Jr.
Unlike its competitors, Google Pics will let users make written prompts to create images, or have them upload images as a starting point for editing
The announcement confirms earlier reports from 'The Information' that Nvidia had bought out Hugging Face
![[Two Pronged] Seasonal Affective Disorder hits, but my therapist's dead. What now?](https://www.rappler.com/tachyon/2026/09/two-pronged-seasonal-affective-disorder-sep-5-2026.jpg)
By: Jeremy Baer, Margarita Holmes, Victor Barreiro
'From the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep the rain never stops... I fear that, if my brain gets used to constantly feeling this down, it will consider this the “new normal” and I have to be on a higher medical regime forever after this.'
![[Tech Thoughts] The tightrope walk between online safety and draconian laws](https://www.rappler.com/tachyon/2026/09/online-safety-draconian-laws-sep-4-2026.jpg)
By: Victor Barreiro
Balancing public safety interests with overreaching laws needs to be intensely scrutinized by the public, unless they want to lose out in all the ways that matter
By: Victor Barreiro Jr.
The DICT hopes success with integrating Roblox's age verification mechanisms with the national ID system can serve as a technical and policy template that Meta can follow
The Chinese companies copied US AI labs' intellectual property through a technique known as distillation, US law enforcement and intelligence officials say
![[Two Pronged] My partner is being pushed to earn money abroad due to a sick parent](https://www.rappler.com/tachyon/2026/09/two-pronged-partner-abroad-work-sep-11-2026.jpg)
By: Margarita Holmes, Victor Barreiro Jr., Jeremy Baer
Letter-sender Leandro has to deal with his partner Daniel's parents, who are pushing Daniel to leave the country to seek better pay and help provide for an ailing parent
Our dinosaurs of AI Chatbots are roaming free, untethered and unbothered by lax safeguards, and we need civic action and stronger protections against them
![[Tech Thoughts] The Jurassic Parkification of AI chatbots](https://www.rappler.com/tachyon/2026/09/tech-thoughts-jueassic-parkification-ai-chatbotsjpg.jpg)