Despite having been released just a day ago, Midnights, the tenth studio album from Taylor Swift is a critical and commercial success. While tracks like “Lavender Haze” and “Sweet Nothing,” are about love and revenge, “Anti-Hero,” sees Swift battle against herself. So of course, it’s set the internet abuzz. As the lead single to Midnights,…
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, 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…
The majority of social media users are standing behind Big Tech companies’ efforts to curb misinformation, even as users of “alternative” social media sites find community in the unregulated media environments fostered by “free-speech” advocates. The information comes from a new study by the Pew Research Center, published Oct. 6, which dives into the motivations…
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…
For those who dream of a four-day workweek, Dictionary.com feels your pain. And to give you the language to express your woes, it’s added a slew of work related terms — plus a few internet faves, climate terms, and accurate Ukrainian endonyms. On Tuesday, the online dictionary announced 620 new entries, 700 new definitions for…
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…
One of the best ways to protect your accounts from unauthorized intruders is to set up two-factor authentication (aka 2FA) for them. 2FA is an extra layer of security that makes it so a hacker needs more than just your username and password to get into your account. 2FA usually plays out as a company…
What do you do if it’s “Time to BeReal” during a bank robbery? This Saturday Night Live sketch has the answer. This week’s host Miles Teller and SNL cast member Mikey Day play bank robbers in the middle of a holdup when the hostages’ daily BeReal notifications go off. If you know about the social…
Ever wonder how someone got so many Instagram followers? We have great news for your ego: Some of those followers might be fake. It’s likely that, even if you’ve never bought followers, you’ve still been followed by a few bots. This is largely unavoidable — and many bots are harmless — but you should still…