Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
…As generative AI platforms explode in popularity, though, people are now also exchanging billions of messages a day with AI chatbots that don’t offer the protection of end-to-end encryption…
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X’s Big Bot Purge Wiped Out a Lot of People’s Secret Porn Feeds
He’s a celebrity news influencer with 617,000 combined followers across YouTube and Instagram. So when he created a secret account on X in 2024 to keep track of his favorite…
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
…There is the Steam Frame headset, which Valve says is still on track to release this year; the Samsung Galaxy XR launched in December, running the new Android XR platform; and ByteDance…
Elon Musk’s XChat App Is More Like Facebook’s Messenger Than Signal
…Rather than launching a sleek, new encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped an insular, junky extension of his social media platform that happens to include encrypted messaging. Late Launch When the XChat team…
Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription
But his most significant achievement might be in doubling down on Apple’s services business, which includes iCloud, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, News+, and more. It’s the subscription…
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down
…That helped fuel the platform’s rise as X’s hard-right ideological turn prompted some users to seek new social networks. In 2025, Bluesky grew from 25 million users to over…
Meta Copies Snapchat’s Homework Again With ‘Plus’ Features for Instagram and Facebook
…mimicking other social media platforms’ successes—specifically, Snapchat. “Loving husband, father of four boys, VP Product @ Meta” reads Evan Spiegel’s tongue-in-cheek LinkedIn profile. Spiegel, the cofounder and CEO of…
The New Era of Militia Influencers
…While social media platforms like Facebook purged militia groups from their networks in 2020, pushing them to fringe platforms like Telegram and limiting their ability to organize and recruit new members, that…
These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr
…ongoing as new apps enter the space and that it welcomes competition. When thinking about how MeetMarket could operate, Bowden studied different economic models and was drawn to the platform-cooperative movement…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…OpenAI now says it may share “limited information” with partners to promote services like ChatGPT and Codex off of OpenAI’s platforms. The company details this change in a new help page…