Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

8 months ago

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as…

If Planet X Exists, It’s Running Out of Places to Hide

8 months ago

Welcome back to the Abstract!  This week, it’s time to demand a new planet. Don’t we deserve it? Haven’t we…

Behind the Blog: What Is Real?

8 months ago

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of…

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes

8 months ago

Meta deleted nonbinary and trans themes for its Messenger app this week, around the same time that the company announced…

‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes

8 months ago

Meta employees are furious with the company’s newly announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+…

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

8 months ago

This article was produced with support from WIRED. Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members…

People Think AI Images of Hollywood Sign Burning Are Real

8 months ago

There’s a video going viral this week of the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles with a wildfire raging behind it,…

‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster

8 months ago

In 2020, after walking by refrigerated trailers full of the bodies of people who died during the first wave of…

Google’s AI Overview Tells Adults to Use ‘Magic Wand’ With Kids

8 months ago

When Google’s AI Overview search feature launched in May, it was generally regarded as a mess. It told people to…

A 5,500-Year-Old Forest in Yellowstone Melted Out of the Ice

8 months ago

Let’s start 2025 off strong by avoiding it entirely and escaping a thousand years into the past to an Amazonian…