Hayden Panettiere’s Neutrogena Story Exposes A Problem With Morality Clauses

Hayden Panettiere’s story that Neutrogena sought to drop her under a morality clause exposes how the clauses have not evolved to reflect how public life has changed.

Meta launched a Mac app to put its AI to work for businesses
Meta launched a Mac app to put its AI to work for businesses

Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, its chatbot. The company is pushing to turn the assistant into a tool for businesses and creators. The app can watch a window on your screen and answer questions about what it sees, Meta said on Wednes…

A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide
A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide

Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a new investigation by the Tech Transparency Project. The effort relies on paid influencers and funded parent groups, the watchdog said…

TikTok is building a way to send money inside DMs
TikTok is building a way to send money inside DMs

TikTok is working on a way for users to send each other money inside direct messages, according to Bloomberg. The feature would run on TikTok Pay, the app’s existing payment system, Bloomberg reported. Natalie Lung and Alexandra Levine wrote that refer…

From A $10 Microphone To Oprah—How Tara Keeney Built ‘Look Who I Found!’ One Walk At A Time

You’ve likely seen Tara Keeney interviewing Oprah, Jay Shetty or Emma Grede on Instagram. Here’s how she built a new kind of 90-second show—and is walking the talk.

Reddit AI videos turn old text threads into narrated clips
Reddit AI videos turn old text threads into narrated clips

Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday on the web. The iOS and Android apps followed on Tuesday. It covers select English-language posts in…

Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack

This is the latest large-scale DDoS attack to hit the social networking site this year.

YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not
YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not

From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing. No minimum watch time, across long-form, Shorts and live, everywhere. The YouTube view count will go up. Nobody will watch more. Nobody will earn more. What the rule was, and nobo…

Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US
Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US

Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentuc…

Meta might be on the hook for $1.4 trillion if it loses a landmark lawsuit and that would truly mark the end of social media as we know it

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are about to face their toughest trial yet. How the huge State AG’s lawsuit could force Meta to make some difficult decisions.