X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
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Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds
When Google’s AI answers a question, it is increasingly not reading a website. It is reading a Facebook post. New data suggests social platforms have become a core source for Google’s AI answers. Often the user never visits the platform at all. The findings come from BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO firm. Its tool tracks roughly […]
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AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.
Singles are feeding their dating app conversations into ChatGPT and Claude, asking the models to write replies, analyse what went wrong, and generate opening lines. The practice, called “chatfishing,” has produced a 5,000% spike in Google searches and a growing trail of Reddit posts and TikTok confessionals. Twenty-six per cent of US adults, and 49% […]
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Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage
Meta’s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them. Facebook and Instagram both faltered on 19 July, greeting users with login failures, frozen feeds, and error screens that promised a fix was on the way without saying when it would […]
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Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification
Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused of online vilification. The “demasking” powers would be the first of their kind for an Australian state. Allan […]
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Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking
Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday. The update improves facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across changing lighting, camera angles, and partial face occlusions like glasses and hats. Queued videos now process in under a minute. The tool targets social […]
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Trump is selling high-speed access to his market-moving Truth Social posts
Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, is selling Wall Street faster access to the “most market-moving” posts on the US President’s social media platform. On Thursday, Trump Media announced plans to launch “Truth API,” a licensed real time data feed for businesses that provides “the fastest access to Truth Social’s most influential accounts.” It […]
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Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI
Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, TechCrunch reported. They will reach […]
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X cracks down on creators who steal content
X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.
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The UK won’t restrict VPNs after all, and its own research is why
The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A VPN hides a user’s real […]
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