December 23, 2022 Mastodon, dubbed an open-source, decentralized, or federated social network that allows users to build their own networks or instances and has been cited as an alternative social media platform to Twitter, has seen a meteoric more...
December 23, 2022 TikTok is trying to convince the US government to enable it to continue to stay under the ownership of Chinese technology company ByteDance by proposing to conduct its business at arm's length and subject it more...
December 21, 2022 TikTok has unveiled a new feature that will allow users to see why a specific video was recommended to them in their For You feed. According to TikTok, the new feature is intended to provide more...
December 13, 2022 According to Downdetector, complaints about Instagram's outage began on Monday around 1:57 PM EST, with plummeting records. The app appears to be operational again after about 45 minutes of inactivity. At its peak, around 2:08 more...
December 13, 2022 Maryland, has banned the use of TikTok and certain China and Russia-based platforms in the state's executive offices, said Gov. Larry Hogan. The state stated in announcing the emergency directive that the entities “present an more...
November 30, 2022 Elon Musk has found allies in music streaming giant Spotify and Epic Games, creators of the popular online game Fortnite, who, like Musk, are fed up with Apple's 30% App Store fees. Musk first chastised more...
November 30, 2022 Elon Musk has revealed his plans for Twitter 2.0, including longform tweets, encrypted direct messages, user-to-user payments, and other features. The plans for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages, which guarantees message secrecy using full more...
November 30, 2022 Security researchers have raised concerns about the personal risks of participating in the Invisible Challenge, a viral TikTok challenge that involves a person filming themselves naked while using an effect called Invisible Body that removes more...
November 28, 2022 Elon Musk's proposed amnesty plan for suspended Twitter users, despite previously promising to form a content moderation council before making any decision about reinstating accounts, is the result of threats from a large coalition of more...
November 28, 2022 Utilizing API security flaws fixed in January, over 5.4 million Twitter user records containing non-public information were stolen through an internal bug and leaked online on a hacker forum. Last July, malicious actors began selling more...
