UK agency questions Meta's policies for illegal gambling site ads

The UK Gambling Commission has raised concerns that Meta is ignoring advertisements by illegal gambling websites on its platforms. At a conference in Barcelona, the commission's Executive Directo [...]

Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own

Meta is developing a standalone app for Vibes, its feed of AI-generated videos, according to reports from TechCrunch and Platformer. Vibes was introduced as a feature in the Meta AI app in September 2 [...]

Digg shuts down for a 'hard reset' because it was flooded with bots

Digg has shut down, for now, just a few months after its open beta launched. Justin Mezzell, the company’s CEO, has explained on the home page that it noticed hours after the beta launched that it w [...]

The Morning After: WWDC 2026 is happening June 8th

It’s coming. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place from June 8-12. Going on past timings, CEO Tim Cook will take the stage for the keynote on June 8, most likely at 1 PM E [...]

X moves the ashes of Tweetdeck behind its $40 Premium+ subscription

X Pro, the feature most users would recognize as TweetDeck, has been removed as a benefit of the social network's Premium subscription. It is now only part of the Premium+ tier, which costs $40 a [...]

The EU says its age verification app is ready

Announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and digital chief Virkkunen, the open-source app uses zero-knowledge proof technology to let users confirm their age without exposing personal da [...]

Malaysia's under-16 social media ban goes into effect on June 1

Malaysia is requiring social networks to implement age verification methods starting on June 1. [...]

Meta, other social networks will pay $27 million to settle Kentucky school district lawsuit

The Kentucky school district that filed a social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and other companies is getting $27 million in settlement. [...]

Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search

Over the weekend, Reddit user -void1 posted an alarming discovery on the r/ClaudeAI subreddit: some conversations that users of Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot had made "shareable" via a [...]