AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like…

Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts

With the new “Replace Audio” tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post’s existing likes, comments, shares, and reach intact.

Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen’s time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.

X rebuilt its neglected Android app from scratch, and the bug reports are already rolling in
X rebuilt its neglected Android app from scratch, and the bug reports are already rolling in

Android users have long got the rougher version of X. After nearly a year of work, the company has stopped patching the old app and rebuilt it from scratch. The new version ships as a normal update through the Play Store, X said, so there is no separat…

Hackers are mass-exploiting two WordPress flaws, and AI found the way in
Hackers are mass-exploiting two WordPress flaws, and AI found the way in

If you run a WordPress site, the advice this week is blunt: update it now. Two flaws in the software are under active exploitation across the internet. WordPress powers more than half of every website online, so the blast radius is huge. Security firms…

Adobe’s Project Indigo can now critique your photos, and quietly rebuild them
Adobe’s Project Indigo can now critique your photos, and quietly rebuild them

Adobe made its name here on restraint. Project Indigo, the experimental iPhone camera app it launched a year ago, sold photographers a natural, SLR-like look. It skipped the heavy processing that most phone cameras bake in by default. The latest update…

Snapseed Camera now lets Android users save original photos and add geotags

Google has updated Snapseed Camera for Android with geotag support, original photo saving and better file management for photographers.

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI

Adobe’s Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app

AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.
AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.

Singles are feeding their dating app conversations into ChatGPT and Claude, asking the models to write replies, analyse what went wrong, and generate opening lines. The practice, called “chatfishing,” has produced a 5,000% spike in Google searches and …