AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.
AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.

The videos are everywhere, and the offer is always the same. Let AI do your homework, and you will not get caught. According to a New York Times investigation, TikTok and YouTube are now full of tutorials selling students two kinds of tool. Humanisers …

Instagram’s Icon, Reimagined By Artists

Instagram invited six artists to rethink the icon users see day after day, resulting in flowers, whimsical cartoon bunnies and all-around razzle-dazzle.

Your Instagram photo dumps just got a caption for every single slide

No more forcing one caption to explain your entire carousel. Instagram’s per-slide caption feature is rolling out to everyone today.

LinkedIn will now show recruiters which apps you actually use, not just which skills you claim
LinkedIn will now show recruiters which apps you actually use, not just which skills you claim

LinkedIn launched Connected Apps, a feature that links the software you use to your profile and auto-generates descriptions of how you use it. The descriptions are based on real activity data from the connected app. Users cannot manually edit them. “On…

Teen Social Media Ban: Why Snapchat Is Frantically Locking Down

Amid international bans, Snapchat restricts teen accounts to ‘friends-only’ in a major update.

How Social Media Virality Became A Hidden Prize For Unknown World Cup Players

The players who stand to gain the most from this World Cup over the next few weeks are often not the biggest names. Just ask Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha

Social media’s next evolution: User-controlled algorithms

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web
Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web

Mastodon is betting that email, the oldest surviving communication protocol on the internet, can solve its biggest problem: reaching people who will never create a fediverse account. The open-source social network released version 4.6 on Tuesday, and i…

A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.
A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

More than one million people in the Netherlands now rely exclusively on social media for news, according to the 2026 Digital News Report published on Tuesday. They use no news websites, no television, no radio, and only 12% say they trust what they enc…

What ‘Love Island USA’ New Social Media Policy Means For The Show’s Marketing Machine

‘Love Island USA’ Season 8 is already Peacock’s biggest original launch in history. While the Islanders’ accounts are silent, the show has never been louder.