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The EU unveils a privacy-first age verification app to protect minors online, pressuring platforms to comply with stricter digital safety rules.
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YouTube is changing livestream ad timing to avoid interrupting purchases and peak chat moments, giving creators a clearer view of where automated monetization is headed.
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WhatsApp is testing usernames that could let users chat without sharing phone numbers, adding a new privacy layer now rolling out to some beta users.
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X is cutting clickbait payouts, but the bigger problem may be a creator program that rewarded attention-chasing behavior before trying to punish it.
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These eight Google Gemini AI prompts transform ordinary photos into polished portraits for LinkedIn, personal branding, family photos, and more.
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Meta is testing Instagram Plus, a paid tier for regular users that adds Story features focused on privacy, reach, and in-app audience control.
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As her dark debut about a tradwife who wakes up in the past is made into a film by Anne Hathaway, the novelist explores the sinister truth behind the barefoot influencers
Gingham dresses, linen aprons; toddlers smiling toothily out from their perch on a perfectly cocked hip. And the mothers holding these babies? They’re beautiful, obviously. They speak in a whisper. Their skin tone is varied in the exact range and spectrum of honey.
Tradwife. It’s a frilly word, the kind that holds a gun to your head and demands you say it in sing-song. The media coverage of the phenomenon has been as breathless and decidedly feminised as the term itself. I have yet to find an article on the topic that was not written by a woman, which feels ironic, given that the term – as well as the vision therein – was originally coined and circulated by men, born out of the dank, murky caves of online “incel” forums, where anonymous usernames set forth the deeply unoriginal vision of a wife who would do everything the real women in their lives refused to do: manage the house, give birth to children, have sex on command, and most importantly, ask nothing in return.
A jury finds Meta and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction case, signaling major legal risks for Big Tech and platform design.
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Meta lost in New Mexico. The bigger question now is whether the next phase forces changes to how its platforms work.
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Tencent integrates OpenClaw AI agents into WeChat, bringing autonomous assistants to 1 billion users and raising new security and governance concerns.
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