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Instagram users can now edit comments, which is a long-awaited fix for anyone who’s ever had to delete and re-post a comment just to fix a typo.

Jason Donenfeld, the creator of the open source WireGuard VPN software, told TechCrunch that he has been locked out of his Microsoft developer account, and as a result cannot sign drivers or ship updates for WireGuard for Windows users, which are critical for its software to run. Donenfeld said in a post on X on Wednesday that the account termination stopped a WireGuard update from shipping.

A Democratic congressman had harsh criticism for Polymarket for allowing users to bet on the date the United States would confirm the rescue of Air Force service members shot down over Iran.

So essentially Meta imagines a world, in which people don’t even have to write their own messages to family and friends anymore?

Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

Users will be able to change their username only once every 12 months. Plus, they won’t be able to delete their new email address for that period of time.

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

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The spyware founder’s comments are the most direct suggestion yet from anyone inside Intellexa that the Mitsotakis government authorized the hacking of dozens of phones belonging to senior Greek government ministers, opposition leaders, military officials, and journalists.

A notice on the popular paywall-bypass website Archive.today said that access is blocked “by decision of public authorities.”

Leaked “DarkSword” exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.

The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

Pinterest’s chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.

The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

also: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/fbi-buying-data-track-people-patel-00834080

An AI agent went rogue at Meta, exposing sensitive company and user data to employees who did not have permission to access it.

A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn’t have permission to see it.

Rubi has developed an enzymatic process to turn carbon dioxide into cellulose that’s ready to be spun into lyocell or viscose.

The Giving Pledge’s numbers, reported Sunday by the New York Times, trace a steady decline. In its first five years, 113 families signed the Pledge. Then 72 over the next five, 43 in the five after that, and just four in all of 2024. The roster includes Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Elon Musk — some of the most powerful people in the world, and yet, in Peter Thiel’s words to the Times, it is a club that’s “really run out of energy …I don’t know if the branding is outright negative,” Thiel told the outlet, “but it feels way less important for people to join.”

Facebook is making it easier for creators to report impersonators while tightening rules around reposts and other unoriginal content.

Digg laid off a significant number of staff and shut down its app, but says it’s not giving up on the startup.

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The tech giant says the new features are designed to alert users before they engage with something suspicious.

After a high-profile antitrust lawsuit, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday that it has tentatively settled with Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation.

Your daily reminder that by supporting Big Tech, you are contributing to the insane wealth disparity.

TikTok experienced a similar outage just days after ByteDance divested the app’s U.S. operations.

S. app uninstalls of ChatGPT’s mobile app jumped 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, as consumers responded to the news of OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense (DoD), which has been rebranded under the Trump administration as the Department of War.

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.

“It also takes a lot of energy to train a human.”

“But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman said. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart. And not only that, it took the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to figure out science and whatever, to produce you.”

Not the flex Google thinks this is but also this strategy will work great right up until Google’s AI becomes intelligent enough to realize Google is the actual real Malware itself, that is of course if AI becomes intelligent… ever….

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TikTok’s new Local Feed will show you nearby shopping, dining, events, news, and more.

Facebook’s new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgrounds to text posts.