2025’s most downloaded game, Block Blast!, is going ad-free on Apple Arcade

Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game of 2025, is coming to Apple Arcade in September where it will be ad-free.

FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation prediction markets

FlightAware says that Kalshi used its name and data to offer bets on flight cancellations without the flight tracker’s permission.

‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts
‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts

Zoom has patched a major security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to hijack anyone’s device during a meeting. In a blog post on Tuesday, researchers at A Security say they uncovered the flaw using “fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models,” as reported earlier by Wired. The exploit involved Zoom’s annotation feature, […]

Bumble ditches its rule that kept men from making the first move

Bumble is ditching the rule that it has enforced since launching in 2024. Men can finally message first.

Bumble now lets men make the first move
Bumble now lets men make the first move

Bumble was famously built around exclusively giving women the power to initiate messages in heterosexual matches when it first launched in 2014 – but now the times they are a-changin’ for the dating app. Today, Bumble has announced a “global evolution to its signature conversation experience”: anyone can now send the first message, and the […]

Google is testing a homepage without a Search button
Google is testing a homepage without a Search button

Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its place, and the familiar layout returns the moment they log in. Search Engine Watch spotted the change on Monday and reproduced it across…

Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option in the US. In other markets, it is testing cash.
Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option in the US. In other markets, it is testing cash.

Google Play now accepts Venmo in the United States. Users can link their Venmo account through the payment methods section in Google Play settings and use their Venmo wallet, connected bank accounts, or cards to pay for apps, games, subscriptions, and …

Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US

Aptoide has brought its games store back to Google Play after more than a decade, as court-ordered changes open Android to competing app stores.

Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals

Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money

Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.