ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has now become the No. 3 most-blocked account on Bluesky, after receiving its official verification on Friday, according to third-party trackers. Bluesky…
Read more ICE becomes one of the most-blocked accounts on Bluesky after its verification | TechCrunchMost people say they want to live to a ripe old age. But that isn’t really true. What people really want is to live to a ripe, old…
Read more A 25-Year Study of Superagers Found They All Have This 1 Behavior in CommonMastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X, has a new plan to make money. Instead of…
Read more Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web | TechCrunchMichal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world to potential…
Read more AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans DoWhen European Union vice president Věra Jourová met with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan in California last week, they fell to talking about the long-running conspiracy theory that the…
Read more Why the EU’s Vice President Isn’t Worried About Moon-Landing Conspiracies on YouTubeLinkedIn, the social network that is ostensibly about work, now has a space just for playing games. The company launched LinkedIn Games this week after testing the gaming…
Read more LinkedIn Has Games NowClaim, a platform that is both a rewards app and a social network, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The startup…
Read more Claim, a social network that lets users earn and trade rewards with friends, raises $4M | TechCrunchIn tweets posted Saturday, the mercurial billionaire wrote, “Ads are too frequent on Twitter and too big. Taking steps to address both in coming weeks. Also, there will…
Read more Elon Musk wants Twitter users to pay an even higher subscription fee to not see adsThere’s a new social network in town, and it’s coming for Twitter. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Mastodon Social — a decentralized text-based social…
Read more Mastodon Social Reaches 2.5 Million Users Amid Twitter ShakeupElon Musk has given Twitter employees another ultimatum. Last month Musk told them to either sign up for “long hours at high intensity” or leave the company. Many…
Read more Elon Musk demands Twitter employees pledge they won’t leak information to the press—and is threatening to sue them if they do: ReportElon Musk explained on Saturday why he suspended Kanye West’s Twitter account on Friday following an antisemitic post from the rap mogul. The suspension occurred just days Musk…
Read more Elon Musk ‘wanted to punch’ Kanye West after deeming the rapper’s swastika tweet an ‘incitement to violence’Shonda Rhimes isn’t impressed with Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter, and she isn’t stick around. Best known for creating and writing Grey’s Anatomy, the TV mogul shared what…
Read more Shonda Rhimes tells her 1.9M Twitter followers, ‘Not hanging around for whatever Elon has planned. Bye.’
