Mastodon is adding Bluesky-like starter packs

Mastodon, the federated social network built on ActivityPub, is taking cues from Bluesky and introducing its own version of the social platform's "Starter Packs." The hope is that Masto [...]

Elon Musk leaves DOGE amid tanking Tesla sales

Elon Musk has left his role as the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank Pres [...]

Mastodon was hit by a 'major' DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary mastodon.social instance. As TechCrunch notes, the platform began reporting issues early [...]

A shaky year for American EVs could set the tone for 2026

If you like both electric vehicles and emotional roller coasters, 2025 was an excellent year. However, for those of us whose nerves are already sufficiently frazzled, the highs and lows of the last 12 [...]

Adobe’s new Firefly AI Assistant wants to run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and more from one prompt

Adobe today launched its most ambitious AI offensive to date, unveiling the Firefly AI Assistant — a new agentic creative tool that can orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows across the company&# [...]

PR & Media lessons from EU-Startups Summit 2026: what works, what does not

A panel in Valletta laid out a working playbook for startup PR, from the friends-and-family headline test to the case for hiring an agency. Founders looking for media coverage at this year’s EU-Star [...]

Panasonic buys UK media server maker HIVE in push beyond hardware

Panasonic Projector & Display Corporation has acquired 100% of the issued shares of UK-based HIVE Media Control, the company behind the award-winning BeeBlade media server platform. The deal signa [...]

The MPA tells Meta to stop using PG-13 to describe teen accounts

The Motion Picture Association doesn’t share Meta’s view that the content people under the age of 18 might encounter on an Instagram Teen Account is comparable to what you might find in a PG-13 mo [...]

OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here and it does multilingual text, full infographics, slides, maps, even manga — seemingly flawlessly

It's been only a few months since OpenAI released its last big improvement to AI image generations in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API) — namely, a new image gener [...]