Out of the beta, into the consumer A...pp: Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items.
Ad Blockers may be showing users more problematic ads: Privacy-conscious users relying on "acceptable ads" programs encounter 13.6% more problematic content than those without Ad Blockers.
Elmo X/Twitter account got hacked; Calls Trump ‘CHILD F****R’ in profane Epstein posts: ‘RELEASE THE FILES!’ and shares Antisemitic posts.
Belkin ends Wemo support January 31, 2026; its move to brick Wemo devices exposes IoT companies’ lack of accountability when abandoning paid products.
Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies: An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes.
Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes “stuck in limbo”
