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Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

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On The Vergecast: Instagram’s new logo, Zuck’s AI manifesto, and lots of other bad ideas.

by David Pierce

Aug 14, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Instagram’s wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn’t look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn’t even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this.

On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay start by discussing the new logo, the executive urge to redesign everything all the time, and whether new is always better. After that, they get into the other big Meta release of the week: Mark Zuckerberg’s many-thousand-word missiveon the...

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Chinese hackers build PHP2SHELL exploit, use it to root 25 servers, breach US government-affiliated firewalls

* Researchers report the first confirmed PHP2Shell compromises, targeting organizations linked to the US government * Attackers chained PHP2Shell with a Linux privilege-escalation flaw to gain root access and persistence * Breaches progressed from initial compromise to Active Directory attacks within minutes, underscoring patching urgency We now have confirmation of the first successful
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London's High Court dismisses Meta, TikTok, and X's challenge to Ofcom's Online Safety Act information requests, rejecting arguments they were disproportionate

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