President Biden’s new executive order aims to bolster national security

President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Thursday aimed at strengthening the nation’s cybersecurity and making it easier to go after

Why school cellphone bans are gaining steam in these red and blue states

Arkansas’ Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom have little in common ideologically, but the two have both been vocal supporters of an idea that’s been rapidly gaining bipartisan ground in the states: Students’

One reason the U.S. government is so spooked by TikTok: AI

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How Letterboxd went mainstream

In 2020, Letterboxd’s highest-rated film was Lee Isaac Chung’s quiet indie Minari, which made a mere $15.5 million globally. Four years later, Denis Villeneuve’s $714.4 million-making juggernaut Dune: Part Two tops the charts. 

These changing tastes could represent a broader shift in Letterboxd’s core user base. The app underwent a seismic growth period over the past four years. In mid-2020, Letterboxd touted 1.8 million members; that number is now over 17 mi

Substack is trying to court displaced TikTok creators

“We’re going to rescue the smart people from TikTok!” Substack CEO Chris Best wrote in a Note posted Monday.  

If you’ve been on your Substack newsfeed lately, you’ve likely seen the platform rolling out a warm welcome to TikTok users, as the days count down to a potential TikTok ban in the U.S. Just this week, Best annou

3 fintech predictions that will shape 2025

In a year defined by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, you might think that all this incredible innovation has made its way into the hands of the people who need it most. But you’d be wrong.

Much of the world’s population lacks access to the financial services they need, despite having trillions of dollars in economic power. Being excluded from the legacy financial services industry means having to navigate their daily lives without access to

It’s time for Apple to press pause on its AI news summaries

Apple should shut off its AI summaries of news alerts until it can prevent them from spreading fake news. Anecdotes of iPhone users seeing weirdly phrased summaries of texts and other content are common. But getting news headlines wrong is another matter. Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler is the latest to call out the problem. 

“[A]pple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fac

5 things to know about TikTok replacement RedNote

Earlier this week, the Chinese app Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote, shot up to become the most-downloaded app on the Apple’s U.S. App Store, partly as a “joke’s on you” moment to the American government as well as the desire for a replacement app ahead of the in

‘Just reported my old landlord’: The internet is naming and shaming L.A. landlords for price gouging during the wildfires

Los Angeles landlords are being named and shamed in an online effort to combat illegal price gouging following Southern California’s historic wildfires.

According to Ken Haskett, section chief for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, “well over 5,000 homes have been destroyed just in the Palisades.” At the same time, a grassroots effort to track p

Hinge will now use AI to grade your dating profile prompts

Hinge is releasing a new AI-powered coaching feature to help daters improve their profile prompt responses.

Prompts, which are icebreakers that can act as conversation starters, are a staple to many dating app profiles. But answers seem to have devolved, with users putting in the bare minimum like an emoji or a single word. As influencer Carly Weinstein pointed out on TikTok, a prompt tha


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