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X sues New York over hate speech disclosure law

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-08 09:46:55

Social media company X has filed a lawsuit against the state of New York over a law governing hate speech. The social network's Global Government Affairs account posted about the suit, claiming the law's required disclosures infringe on First Amendment protections for free speech. The Stop Hiding Hate Act, which is slated to take effect this week, would require social media companies to report on how they define and moderate content including hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, harassm

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Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-03-09 14:16:18

Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon today updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well. “We explicitly prohibit the scraping of user data for unauthorized purposes, e.g. archival or large language model (LLM) training. We want to make it clear that training LLMs on

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Social media is now the top news source in the U.S.

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-10 06:49:48

For the first time ever, social media has overtaken TV as the number one way Americans get their news. Whether that’s a good thing… depends on who you ask. This is one of the standout findings from the Reuters Institute’s 2025 Digital News Report (via NiemanLab), released yesterday. According to the report, 54% of U.S. adults now say their news come from social media and video platforms, compared to 50% who rely on TV and 48% who use traditional news websites or apps. It’s the first time socia

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Tinder now lets you go on double dates

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-10 05:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Tinder is no longer just a platform for solo dates. The company has announced a new “Double Date” feature rolling out in the US that will let you invite a friend to find — and match with – another pair. The feature lives within a new “Double Date” icon in the top-right corner of the app, where you can invite up to three friends to create pairs with

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Elon Musk Posts "No Kings" Message as Protests Rage Against Trump

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-10 06:05:02

Late Sunday night, billionaire Elon Musk was seemingly kept awake by the specter of the "No Kings" mass protests across the United States over the weekend. Millions of people took to the streets to counter a controversial — and apparently boring-as-hell — military parade, sponsored by UFC and put on by president Donald Trump, with the striking choice to hold it on his birthday. Musk took to his own social media platform, posting a screenshot of the iconic horror video game "Bioshock," which sh

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As Trump Comes for Your Social Media, It’s Time You Consider What’s Worth Sharing

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-03-12 18:11:22

Agents of the Trump administration are increasingly using social media posts to crack down on immigrants, tourists, and even some U.S. citizens. Last month, a leaked document showed the State Department had crafted a new standard for reviewing the social media accounts of any foreign students planning to attend or even visit Harvard University. Legal immigrants may have benefits denied based on social media activity, and people expressing opinions or acting contrary to Trump are being detained a

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Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-03-13 09:04:43

A year ago, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was known as one of the many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the network formerly known as Twitter. Today, Bluesky’s social network has grown to over 36.5 million users, while the technology it’s built upon — the AT Protocol (or ATProto for short) — is being used to develop dozens more applications designed to work together as part of an open social web. The developers behind many of these apps attended the first conferenc

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Pixel Camera update may have killed this handy sharing feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-14 11:30:05

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Google has pushed out a new Pixel Camera update to the Play Store. The update seems to remove the Social Share shortcut, which was introduced back in 2019. This menu pops up for a few seconds after taking a photo, allowing you to quickly share your snap via a selection of apps. Google introduced a Social Share shortcut to the Pixel Camera app back in 2019’s Pixel 4 series. This sharing menu would pop up immediately after taking a photo on your Pixel ph

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Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-15 01:33:28

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform Kalshi decided to take this trend outside the social sphere by putting a nonsensical AI-generated ad in front of the millions of viewers wa

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Bluesky backlash misses the point

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-03-15 05:27:19

Bluesky is missing an opportunity to explain to people that its network is more than just its own Bluesky social app. In recent weeks, a number of headlines and posts have surfaced questioning whether Bluesky’s growth is declining, if the network has become too much of a left-leaning echo chamber, or if its users lack a sense of humor, among other charges. Investor Mark Cuban, who even financially backed Skylight, a video app built on Bluesky’s underlying protocol, AT Proto, complained this we

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Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 11:57:20

Live Events The majority of justices on Brazil's Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users. Gilmar Mendes on Wednesday became the sixth of the court's 11 justices to vote to open a path for companies like Meta, X and Microsoft to be sued and pay fines for content published by their users. Voting is ongoing but a simple majority is all that is needed for the measure to pass.The ruling will come after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warn

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Influencer Sobs in Front of TikTok Headquarters After Getting Banned

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-16 19:01:23

"Dad, they won't let me in," she screamed. The social media gods can be cruel. Just ask Natalie Reynolds, an influencer with millions of followers, who was so upset that she got banned from TikTok that she recently went to one of the social media company's offices and was filmed crying and screaming while on the phone with her dad. "Dad, they won't let me in," she screamed. "I need my TikTok account unbanned." Reynolds, who had 2.5 million followers on TikTok, was banned for apparently spark

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NASA is shutting down some official social media accounts, including the Curiosity rover's handle

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 21:20:16

NASA is shutting down several social media accounts run by the Science Mission Directorate, including the official Mars Curiosity Rover account on X. The organization says it made the decision in order to "make its work more accessible to the public, avoiding the potential for oversaturation or confusion." The "social media consolidation project" is concentrated in part on X, where there are dozens NASA accounts affiliated with specific missions and areas of research. So far 29 accounts are bei

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Lifetime Subscription to Babbel for 71% Off and an Extra Discount Gets You Mind-Expanding Language Lessons Forever

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-03-16 23:40:15

It’s natural to be envious of people who can casually move from language to language, in conversation or as they’re reading. It’s definitely not easy, but learning a new language is well worth the effort, especially when you have lifetime access to 14 languages when you buy a subscription to Babbel at StackSocial for 71% off. See at StackSocial Babbel is the world’s top-selling language instruction app, and this is a buy-once-own-forever deal rather than a recurring yearly or monthly bill for

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If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-10 02:26:16

Matthew Busch for The Washington Post via Getty Images Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of 150-year-old Social Security recipients is a tale that intertwines aging technology, government systems, and modern misunderstandings by the youthful Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) IT people. At the heart of this story lies COBOL,

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The $230 MacBook Air Is Real, It’s a Steal, and It’s Flying Off the Shelves

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-11-10 00:55:06

MacBooks are many things — beautifully designed, reliable, sturdy, fast, and powerful among them. Inexpensive, however, is not a word you hear applied to MacBooks often, if ever. Apple is very much a get-what-you-pay-for company, and you pay for quality. Thankfully, there are shortcuts to be found, like the deals StackSocial frequently runs on Grade-A refurbished MacBooks for a fraction of their usual cost. See at StackSocial Here’s one that’s on the extreme side even for StackSocial: A 13.3-i

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Children routinely using social media, Australian regulator says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-10 00:31:30

Children routinely using social media, Australian regulator says 1 hour ago Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images More than 80% of Australian children aged eight to 12 use social media or messaging services that are only meant to be for over-13s, according to new research. It comes as Australia plans to implement a total social media ban for under-16s that is expected by the end of this year. The country's internet regulator, eSafety, found YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat were the most

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Latest Tech News

X sues New York over hate speech disclosure law

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training

Social media is now the top news source in the U.S.

Tinder now lets you go on double dates

Elon Musk Posts "No Kings" Message as Protests Rage Against Trump

As Trump Comes for Your Social Media, It’s Time You Consider What’s Worth Sharing

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol

Pixel Camera update may have killed this handy sharing feature

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

Bluesky backlash misses the point

Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content

Influencer Sobs in Front of TikTok Headquarters After Getting Banned

NASA is shutting down some official social media accounts, including the Curiosity rover's handle

Lifetime Subscription to Babbel for 71% Off and an Extra Discount Gets You Mind-Expanding Language Lessons Forever

If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

The $230 MacBook Air Is Real, It’s a Steal, and It’s Flying Off the Shelves

Children routinely using social media, Australian regulator says

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