TikTok‘s just landed itself another ban, with the UK planning to block the app from all government devices. Following reviews by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, the government is expected to announce the ban on all smartphones, laptops, desktops, and other devices used by ministers and civil servants, the BBC reported Thursday. SEE ALSO:…

One of the most moneyed men in Donald Trump’s orbit has just been charged by the U.S. for fraud. Guo Wengui, a Chinese fugitive living in the U.S., was arrested on Wednesday and hit with a series of wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering charges. The billionaire fled China in 2014 and…

By now, you may have heard about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the second biggest bank failure in U.S. history and the largest since the 2008 financial crisis. On Friday, regulators stepped in to take over the bank following a bank run that drained the company of capital. While the repercussions of Silicon Valley…

Twitter is finally starting to put a price on its paid API plans after announcing that the platform’s free API access would soon be cut off. And, it’s not cheap. Existing users of Twitter’s current free API service have started to receive emails from the company that finally share pricing details about the new subscription…

Twitter owner Elon Musk has had a sudden change in heart regarding a now-former employee who he publicly ridiculed in front of his more than 130 million followers on the platform. On Tuesday, Musk apologized to Haraldur Thorleifsson, a former senior director of product design at the company, for claiming the designer wasn’t doing work…

On Monday, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter spent his evening antagonizing Haraldur Thorleifsson, a now-former senior director of product design at the company after Thorleifsson tweeted at Musk inquiring whether he was still employed. During the episode, Musk publicly questioned the former Twitter worker’s disability. Thorleifsson has muscular dystrophy and has used…

It’s time once again for that seemingly regularly scheduled daily mishap on Elon Musk’s Twitter. On Monday, around noon ET, users began reporting that a number of essential Twitter features like links, photos, and Tweetdeck were no longer working. Users who attempted to click on a link were met with the following error message: {“errors”:[{“message”:”Your…

At one San Francisco hospital, it’s not uncommon for teens hospitalized with an eating disorder to surreptitiously use their phones to find weight-loss tips on social media. A psychologist who treats children in an Ohio primary care office hears from anxious or depressed patients who go online for fun only to encounter harmful content, like…

A feature in a recent iOS update for iPhone, introduced in October, is suddenly being noticed. And not everyone likes it. The goal of clean energy charging, introduced in iOS 16.1, is so iPhone users can rely less on fossil fuel-intensive energy sources by “selectively charging when lower carbon-emission electricity is available.” Credit: Jonathan Tully/Mashable…

Just in case you hadn’t gotten enough Twitter to last a lifetime, it looks as though its spinoff Bluesky may be getting closer to a wide release. Twitter alternative Bluesky has been added to the Apple App Store, giving us a peek at the social media app’s familiar-looking interface. Screenshots on the listing appear almost…