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The platforms people actually spend their day in, and the product changes that quietly reshape them.
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Meta’s mixed signals to staff on tokenmaxxing [Report]
Imagine a job where you shoot at targets all day, and someone tells you your worth to the company depends on how many bullets you fire. So you…
Instagram tightens the screws on undisclosed AI profiles
Instagram will start throttling accounts that show off AI-generated people without admitting it. That’s the part of Monday’s announcement that carries actual weight, because a label nobody has…
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 you’ve scrolled past a wall of machine-written text,…
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 the Play Store, and when an app that…
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 US, and it’s the part of this settlement…
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 p.m. EST on August 25. That’s the cutoff…
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 the pitch, and it’s aimed squarely at the…
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. Matt Zames starts Monday. The former JPMorgan Chase…
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: a way to send money to another person…
