How a fake Reddit post tried to derail the Darrell Brooks trial

Reddit is often called “the front page of the internet,” where users post all sorts of links and stories to what’s happening around the world. But this week, Reddit itself was thrust into the spotlight after a fake post on the platform became part of a high-profile trial being livestreamed to an audience of millions.…

Instagram is testing adding songs to profiles, but not externally (yet)

The ’00s are back, folks. Instagram is reportedly internally working on a feature that allows users to add a song to their profiles. Developer and notable leaker Alessandro Paluzzi tweeted screenshots of the feature, which he states Instagram is currently trialling. In a comment emailed to Mashable, a spokesperson said the feature was an “internal…

Signal is testing Instagram-like Stories feature

Signal, the secure messaging app beloved by millions of privacy-conscious users, is beta-testing an Instagram-inspired Stories feature. Who said cybersecurity couldn’t be fun? In an Oct. 5 post to a Signal community board about new beta features, the app announced testers would soon have access to a new way of sharing photos, videos, and even…

Black women started living the soft life. Then came quiet quitting.

Before quiet quitting took corporate America by storm, Black women were quietly quitting their arduous lifestyles.  They dubbed it the soft life: An online aesthetic movement that emerged in 2021 that called for Black women to let go of the astronomical expectation that they do it all. Rather than live a life of stress trying…

Bot, bye: How to delete spam YouTube comments

Anyone who’s ventured a few inches south of YouTube’s video player can attest to what a wasteland the comment section is. Amid the stale jokes and thinly veiled hate speech is another blight on the landscape: spam comments. These spammers, who tend to swarm popular and finance-focused channels like plagues of locusts, hawking vague entrepreneurial…