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Google buries its search links even deeper under AI Overviews
Search for "what is the best game on switch 2" and you might not see a single blue link until…
Google to Android devs: cut your app’s RAM use, or else
February 2027 is the date Android developers should be writing down. That's when Google starts enforcing per-app memory limits on…
Meta’s new teen rules for Instagram and Facebook, and the 2-hour cap
Two hours. That's the daily ceiling Meta has agreed to put on teen accounts across Facebook and Instagram in the…
X hits open source Nitter with cease-and-desist letters over alleged scraping
Seven years of a project that let you read X posts without an account ended with a legal deadline: 5…
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ wants to cut the boring part out of making Reels
Instagram says its new editing tool can hand you a rough cut of a Reel in under 10 seconds. That's…
Trump admin brings ex-JPMorgan exec Matt Zames in to advise Social Security
There's already a placard with his name on it outside an office at Social Security Administration headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland.…
TikTok’s app code hides peer-to-peer payments inside DMs
Buried in the current build of TikTok's U.S. iPhone app is code for something the company won't confirm it's building:…
YouTube is rewriting how it counts views, and your numbers are about to jump
Starting August 24th, a YouTube view will register the moment a video starts playing. Not 30 seconds in. The instant…
YouTube just doubled the watch hours new creators need to earn money
The number to know is 8,000. That's how many qualified watch hours a new creator will need over the past…
Apple has pulled Telegram from the App Store repeatedly. Why has X never faced the same?
Telegram disappeared from the App Store for about an hour this week. That's it. One hour, and then it was…