Character.AI and Google have reached settlements with several families whose teens harmed themselves or died by suicide after interacting with Character.AI 's chatbots, according to new court filings....
Article URL: https://www.danielbrendel.com/blog/24-are-we-tired-of-social-media-once-and-for-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519622 Points: 9 # Comments: 3...
Looking into age restrictions on social media is "more than justified," Germany's Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger told the dpa news agency, commenting on Australia banning the platforms for childr...
A shopping centre in southern China has installed special glass on the doors of men’s toilet cubicles that becomes transparent when people smoke inside, winning applause online. The move involving bat...
Tighter regulations, advancing AI integration, and a desire for greater authenticity will continue to re-shape what social media means in an increasingly disconnected world....
Reed Duchscher, CEO and founder of Night. JASSIEUO (Jasmine Durhal). Reed Duchscher, MrBeast's former manager, says we won't see another MrBeast-scale creator soon. As social algorithms focus on indiv...
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-york-require-social-media-platforms-display-mental-health-warnings-2025-12-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46402609 Poi...
Malaysia on Thursday moved to bring some of the world’s biggest social media and messaging platforms under its licensing regime, closing a year-long gap in which several tech giants had operated witho...
AI-generated video marks a "whole new chapter for the internet," Lightspeed Ventures partner Michael Mignano said. Lightspeed Lightspeed Ventures partner Michael Mignano predicted that AI-gene...
As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these law...
Grok generated sexually explicit images of minors in recent days that have been shared on social media platform X...
I built an open source web app that generates cover letters using local AI models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, etc.) so your resume and job application data never leaves your machine. No placeholders. No...
Ethereum’s social media sentiment is “kind of reminiscent” of what was seen before its last major run, according to Santiment....
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri Drew Angerer/Getty Images Instagram's head says creators will have to embrace a "more raw aesthetic" in the age of AI. Adam Mosseri said the spread of AI images has...
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/27/partisan-x-posts-increase-political-polarisation-among-users-social-media-research Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46...
https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/12/24/predictions-for-t... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46376652 Points: 80 # Comments: 77...
More and more Middle Eastern women thrive as comedians. Could their success on stage, in the film industry, at comedy festivals and on social media foster empowerment for the next generation of girls?...
Last year, I had the great pleasure of attending the Games Industry Conference (GIC) in Poznań, Wielkopolska, where I sat in on a number of talks about game development and craft. In one of those talk...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Power outages spread across San Francisco on Saturday. ✓ Social media videos showed multiple Waymo vehicles stalled in tr...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Power outage affected 130,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in San Francisco on Saturday ✓ Waymo robotaxis stalled...