Bluesky is testing a 'live now' feature with streamers and the NBA

Bluesky doesn't have its own live streaming capabilities, but the service testing out a new feature to boost users' streams off the platform. The company is allowing "select" accou [...]

UK to Ban Social Media for Under-16s, With Sweeping Restrictions for All Teens

Restrictions in the UK will go even further than those in place in Australia, preventing under-17s from accessing live-streaming and chatting with strangers, and under-18s from using romantic companio [...]

X Says Australia’s Under-16s Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law

Elon Musk's platform hit out at the country's “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy. [...]

WhatsApp 'audio hangouts' are now open to group chats of any size

WhatsApp is expanding its Discord-like voice chat feature so that group chats of any size can talk to each other in real time. Unlike group calling, which has existed on the app for years, real-time & [...]

X is recovering after a data center outage

X seems to finally be recovering from a data center outage that brought down the site for some users Thursday and caused lingering issues into Friday. According to posts on the company's develope [...]

Salesforce employees are confused about why the company is promoting a competitor inside Slack

When Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Tuesday, a high-profile AI product that works as a persistent teammate inside Slack channels, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. Sales [...]

Adam Mosseri says 'people are confused' about how the Instagram map works

Yesterday, Meta introduced a new map feature that's almost identical to Snapchat's Snap Map. The feature has quickly sparked a backlash, though, and not just because it's yet another ex [...]

X experiments with showing more information about profiles to fight inauthentic engagement

X has long been a hotbed for fake accounts, bots and other scammy behavior. Many of those dynamics have been exacerbated by the rise of paid verification, which boosts the visibility of anyone who pay [...]

WhatsApp now lets you schedule group calls

WhatsApp is upgrading its workplace chops. On Thursday, the Meta-owned company rolled out new group calling features. Chief among them is the ability to schedule team calls in advance.<br /> Sta [...]