Commodore’s comeback flip phone runs your apps but bans the doomscroll

Commodore, the computer brand that defined the 1980s, is back with a flip phone, and its main selling point is everything it will not let you do. The Callback 8020, announced on Tuesday, is a clamshel [...]

'Slop' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced u [...]

Oversight Board tells Meta expanding Community Notes outside of US poses 'significant' risks

Meta didn't consult its Oversight Board last year when it announced sweeping policy changes to content moderation and a rollback of third-party fact checking in the United States in favor of Comm [...]

US and China agree to agree on a TikTok deal

The long-promised deal to "save" TikTok remains elusive even as the US and China seem to be inching toward an agreement. On Friday, President Donald Trump did little to clarify where the dea [...]

Instagram reaches 3 billion monthly users

Nearly 15 years in, Instagram has passed a new milestone: the app now reaches 3 billion monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg shared in a post on Threads. That's up from 2 billion monthly users in 2022. [...]

Snapchat introduces a paid storage option for all the Memories hoarders out there

Snap is imposing a new storage limit on Snapchat's Memories feature, which has racked up impressive numbers since its introduction in 2016. According to Snap, users have saved more than one trill [...]

Instagram tests new layout that puts the spotlight on Reels and DMs

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has announced that as part of a test, some Instagram users will be able to try a new menu bar in the app with a different arrangement of tabs. Notably, the new menu bar has [...]

A court just ruled Meta and YouTube ‘negligent’ — social media may never be the same

Meta and YouTube just lost a landmark social media case in which a jury found them negligent. Now the question is how, if at all, these platforms change? [...]

Meta lawyers tried to block internal research showing teen harm, judge rules

A federal court ruled that Facebook parent Meta can't use attorney-client privilege to block internal documents and research related to teen harm, Bloomberg Law reported. The decision is a setbac [...]