Is Reddit down? The website is operating normally as of this writing, but thousands of Reddit users were asking this question on Tuesday, Jan. 13, when the popular online discussion platform appeared to suffer a brief outage. According to Downdetector, the problems started around 11:33 a.m. ET, with tens of thousands of Downdetector users reporting…
Instagram users had a scare over the weekend after many users were sent mysterious password reset emails that seemed to come directly from Instagram. Some users thought this might be a phishing email, but as Mashable reported earlier today, many of the emails are legitimate. Instagram said in a weekend statement that it had fixed…
Jujutsu Kaisen has entered its Culling Game arc, and its opening sequence makes one thing clear: This is not a game anyone survives unchanged. Released online yesterday alongside the Season 3 premiere, the opening sequence abandons straightforward hype in favor of something more symbolic and, dare I say, disturbing. Set to King Gnu’s “Aizo,” the…
There was something undeniably weird about 2016. Not weird in the charming, “remember Vine?” sense, but weird in the way history feels right before it tips over. It marked a slow descent into collective unease, beginning with the surreal recapture of El Chapo, winding through celebrity deaths and the mainstreaming of one particular cartoon frog,…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is spending millions to turn the chronically online into deportation agents, according to internal communications reviewed exclusively by the Washington Post. The agency’s $100 million marketing strategy, detailed in a 30-page document distributed to ICE officials this summer, includes a massive push to flood the digital market with geo-targeted and…
For a long period during the height of the NYT Games craze of 2020, new Wordle strategies appeared on the timeline like clockwork. But in the years since, players have honed their personal strategies in ways that have made keeping up with daily streaks a piece of cake. That doesn’t mean there’s not more to…
Among the most difficult parenting tasks, there are few as dreaded as asking a child to put down the device that’s just absorbed their attention for hours. As a parent, you feel guilty that it got this far. You’re also gearing up for a potential fight, should that child throw a toddler, tween, or teen…
The state of New York has passed new legislation requiring social media platforms like X and TikTok to add warning labels to their services. Much like the warnings found on cigarette packaging, the new law — signed by Governor Kathy Hochul — targets platforms that rely on features such as infinite scrolling, autoplay, and algorithmic…
Spoiler warning: This story discusses major Jujutsu Kaisen manga events, including character deaths that have not yet appeared in the anime ahead of its third season premiere on Jan. 8, 2026. Every year on Christmas Eve, I brace myself before opening my apps. Not because of an influx of schmaltzy holiday content, but because I’m…
It’s hard to believe but some good things did happen online 2025. Scrolling around the internet these last 12 months hasn’t always been a pleasant experience — our timelines were full of AI slop, recession fears, and misinformation. But good things did manage to happen, too. Mashable has kept tabs on uplifting digital stories with…