Meta's Smart Glasses Demo Failures Caused by Self-Inflicted DDoS Incident
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Jess Weatherbed
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Summary
Meta experienced technical failures during live demos of its new smart glasses due to a self-inflicted DDoS attack. Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth explained that the 'Hey Meta' voice command activated every pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses in the building simultaneously, overwhelming their development servers. The issue occurred because Live AI traffic was routed to dev servers for isolation but was configured incorrectly, causing all devices to respond to the demo commands.
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We had routed Live AI traffic to our dev server, in theory, to isolate it, but we had done it f
We DDoS'd ourselves, basically
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