Another word has entered the internet lexicon, and it couldn’t be more timely.
If you keep seeing people”crashing out” online, you are not alone. The term has been in the Gen Alpha and Gen Z vernacular for a while, but over the past week it’s been given a new lease of life to describe how many feel about the outcome of the presidential election.
A federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks has revealed a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans who work in government and politics, the FBI said Wednesday.
Hackers affiliated with Beijing have compromised the networks of “multiple” telecommunications compan
Trump supporters are demanding an FBI investigation into the latest TikTok trend, where women are reviving the spirit of Renaissance murderer Giulia Tofana in response to Donald Trump’s reelection.
Tofana, who devised a tasteless and odorloss poison made from arsenic, belladonna, and lead, is alleged to have killed up to 600 men with her concoction in the 17th century. According to
Bluesky, the popular X alternative, appeared to be down or lagging for thousands of users on Thursday morning, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.
More than 2,000 users reported issues with the site just before 9 a.m. PST. Bluesky developer Samuel Newman shared on the platform that the “site is in read-only mode for a sec because something fell over, hold tight!”
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“Bluesky has the juice.”
This phrase seems to be coming up a lot as people flock to the decentralized X alternative, with Elon Musk’s role in boosting Donald Trump back into the White House as a tipping point. Bluesky says one million accounts have joi
Representative-elect Mike Haridopolos, the incoming Republican lawmaker who will represent Kennedy Space Center, expects space policy to play a big part in the Trump administration—and he’s excited to have a role in shaping it.
Haridopolos, a former Florida state senator, beat Democrat Sandy Kennedy in the race to fill the seat left open when Republican Representative Bill Posey announced he would retire after representing Florida’s 8th District for eight terms.
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When is it really okay to remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?
Fortunately, terminally online writers Delia Cai and
YouTube is among the last bastions of limited, curated content. A new experiment could threaten that.
YouTube is testing out an unlimited swipe-through model, in which certain Android users can slide up one video to receive another. While YouTube Shorts previously offered vertical scroll, this is a new feature for the platform’s central landscape videos. And it’s unlimited: Users can swipe and swipe, budding new videos with each movement of the finger.
If that all
If I know anything, it’s that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a certified Wife Guy. Like, that man really loves his wife, pediatrician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan.
He commissioned a seven foot statue of her, created the custom minivan she w