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Bluesky is adding age verification features for users in the UK

Bluesky users in the UK will soon need to verify their age if they want continued access to direct messages and all of the service's content. The company will begin rolling out...

Grok sure seems antisemitic after its recent update

Last Friday, Elon Musk said that X's built-in chatbot had been "significantly" improved. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions," Musk said on X. As it turns out, X...

Here are the letters that let Apple and Google ignore the TikTok ban

More than six months after TikTok was briefly banned, we still don't know exactly what its fate in the US will be. But we do have new insight into the legal wrangling...

Two years later, Meta is making DMs on Threads official

Meta announced just a couple weeks ago that it would finally start testing a dedicated inbox for direct messages on Threads. Now, it's making the feature official and rolling out DMs to...

Meta tells the Oversight Board it isn’t removing the word ‘transgenderism’ from its hate speech rules

If anyone was holding out hope that the Oversight Board would provide some kind of check on Meta's rewritten hate speech policy, Meta has just made it clear exactly where it stands....

Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools

Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app for high school and college students. The company didn't disclose the terms of the deal but said that close to 30 of Saturn's full-time employees...

Donald Trump will delay a looming TikTok ban for a third time

President Donald Trump will, once again, give TikTok a temporary reprieve as it faces another deadline to sell itself or face a ban in the United States. White House Press Secretary Karoline...

Facebook videos are all just going to be reels now

Facebook is once again rebranding the "video" section of its app. This time, the tab formerly known as "video," which was also once called "watch," will become "reels." The change comes as...

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