YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers globally
YouTube is no longer preventing just a small subset of its userbase from accessing its videos if they have an ad blocker. The platform has gone...
LinkedIn’s latest premium perk is an AI job coach
LinkedIn is adding a new, AI-powered perk for its premium subscribers: a built-in job coach that uses AI and LinkedIn data to help job seekers find,...
X Blue, formerly Twitter Blue, subscribers can now hide their checkmarks
One of the main selling points for Twitter Blue — now “X Blue” — when the service was first launched was that anybody on the platform...
TweetDeck’s new name is ‘XPro’
TweetDeck has started showing signs that it will not escape Twitter’s massive rebranding unscathed. If you take a look at the tool’s landing page while logged...
Facebook and Instagram’s news blackout in Canada starts today
As promised, Meta has begun blocking news content in Canada. Starting today, Facebook and Instagram users in the country will no longer be able to view...
YouTube is adding more creator tools to Shorts to help it take on TikTok
YouTube has released several creation tools for Shorts, such as ones that give users the ability to remix most videos and add voiceovers, ever since it...
YouTube tests AI-generated video summaries
The next internet video summary you see might not have been written by a human. YouTube is testing AI-generated video summaries that appear on search and...
Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day
Twitter has begun aggressively limiting how many tweets users can view per day. On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk said the company would restrict unverified accounts to...
Elon Musk claims Twitter’s new login requirement is a ‘temporary’ response to data scrapers
On early Friday afternoon, internet users began noticing that Twitter was no longer allowing people to view tweets if they weren’t signed into the service. At...
Tech firms sue Arkansas over social media age verification law
The technology industry isn’t thrilled with Arkansas’ law requiring social media age checks. NetChoice, a tech trade group that includes Google, Meta and TikTok, has sued...