There’s a new trend on TikTok and everyone hates it. It’s one of those trends you might have found out not because you saw people using it, but because you saw people hating on it — at least that’s how it was served up to me, on a plate of disgust. The trend goes like…
It’s the end of a major Web 2.0 era. Meta announced on Monday that it would be sunsetting two once-major features on Facebook: The external “Like” and Comment” social plugins. In a post on its developer site, Meta shared that the FB Like and FB Comment buttons will officially be discontinued on February 10, 2026.…
Denmark is the latest country to take aim at Big Tech, announcing plans Friday to ban social media access for users under 15. As reported by the Associated Press, the measure won’t take effect immediately, but the details of how the ban will be enforced remain unclear. Denmark reportedly plans to roll out an official…
Grow a Garden. 99 Nights in the Forest. Steal a Brainrot. If you’re a parent, you’ve likely heard your kids talk about one of these Roblox games at some point. They’re playing Roblox. They’re friends are playing Roblox. Half of all kids under the age of 16 in the U.S. are playing Roblox. Unfortunately, with…
There’s hardly ever such a thing as truly free money. We pay for everything, in some way: with labor, with time, with suffering. So getting a payment from a tech or social media settlement isn’t exactly free — it’s likely the company messed up in some way and it legitimately owes you that cash —…
Elon Musk may not be a New York City resident, but he has strong feelings about the city’s mayoral race, and he’s using his social media platform X to influence voters. Up to 2 million New York City residents are expected to vote in the mayoral election, which takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The…
“You’ve got mail!” While America Online, better known as AOL, is nowhere near its heights during the late 90s and early Aughts, when the dial-up service had more than 20 million paying subscribers, millions of people still hear that infamous catchphrase to this day when logging into their email account on America Online, better known…
Polymarket. Kalshi. Truth Social? It looks like Donald Trump’s social network is getting into the prediction market space. On Monday, Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., announced that the social media platform would be the first such site to launch its own prediction market. The prediction market will be called “Truth…
Xbox can’t seem to stay out of the news lately, with the announcement that Halo: Combat Evolved is coming to PlayStation next year and, in response, a detente called in the console wars. Things took a darker turn on Sunday night when President Trump launched into an AI slop meme war with GameStop that has…
Good news! Elon Musk’s X has heard the cries of third-party developers looking to access the platform with their apps and has introduced a new pay-per-use self-serve model instead of a one-time flat-fee subscription. The bad news? Somehow, it seems more expensive than the previous one-time flat-fee subscription model. On Monday, X’s Developers account officially…