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Instagram is coming for your living room with episodic series and live TV on Samsung

Instagram for TV is expanding to Samsung smart TVs across the United States, making the app available on the majority of connected TV devices in the country. Meta announced Monday that the expansion comes alongside several new features, including interest-based channels, phone-to-TV casting, and the ability to watch Stories on the big screen. The Samsung […]

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Patreon CEO Jack Conte on supporting artists in the AI slop era

Today, I’m talking with Jack Conte, the CEO of Patreon. Jack last joined me on the show almost exactly five years ago, in the summer of 2021, and a lot has changed on the internet and in the creator landscape since then, so I was very excited to talk to him again, especially since his […]

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AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.

The videos are everywhere, and the offer is always the same. Let AI do your homework, and you will not get caught. According to a New York Times investigation, TikTok and YouTube are now full of tutorials selling students two kinds of tool. Humanisers rewrite AI-generated text so it no longer reads like a chatbot. […]

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Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web

Mastodon is betting that email, the oldest surviving communication protocol on the internet, can solve its biggest problem: reaching people who will never create a fediverse account. The open-source social network released version 4.6 on Tuesday, and its most strategically significant feature is the ability for creators to send their posts directly to email subscribers. […]

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A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

More than one million people in the Netherlands now rely exclusively on social media for news, according to the 2026 Digital News Report published on Tuesday. They use no news websites, no television, no radio, and only 12% say they trust what they encounter on those platforms. The group represents 7% of Dutch adults, up from 2% […]

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Threads hits 500 million users, and adds a feed control even X doesn’t have

Meta’s Threads has crossed 500 million monthly users, the company said on Tuesday, almost exactly three years after it launched to chase Elon Musk’s X. That is 100 million more than last August, and it puts Mark Zuckerberg halfway to the 1 billion-user goal he set on day one. Alongside the milestone, Threads is shipping […]

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Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta’s new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the “AI Mode” option will appear alongside the usual search modes like “People” and “Marketplace.” It’s one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto […]

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LinkedIn just produced its most unlikely success story: a World Cup footballer

Most LinkedIn messages lead to sales pitches, recruiter spam, or polite rejections. Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes got a World Cup call-up. The Dublin-born Shamrock Rovers defender made history on Sunday when he started for Cape Verde against Spain in the country’s first ever World Cup match, a Group H clash at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Cape Verde […]

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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation

For months, Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run […]

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Under-16 social media ban announced by UK government

The UK is the latest country to follow Australia in implementing a total social media ban for children under 16, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced. The ban, which could take effect from early next year, will be joined by wider measures that will also prevent children from talking to strangers in online games, livestreaming, […]

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