Your phone is not trying to poison your water, but influencers found a $50 fix anyway

Influencers are selling $50 EMF straws as protection from everyday electronics, but the evidence is thin and the real product may be tech anxiety dressed as wellness.

X could soon alert you when a post you liked or reposted gets fact-checked

X is working on a new feature to notify users directly when a post they liked, replied to, or reposted gets a Community Note.

Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected

X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation…

Meta’s new AI can generate images of you from your Instagram, and you’re opted in 

Hidden inside Meta’s Muse Image rollout is a default setting that gives any user access to your public Instagram photos as AI generation fodder.

Meta’s new image and video AI tools let you turn Instagram into your creative mood board

With Muse Image live and Muse Video in preview, Meta has officially stopped outsourcing its creative AI to Midjourney and Black Forest Labs.

Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos
Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos

Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it’s coming soon to Facebook and Messenger, according to an announcement on Tuesday. It’s part of the growing Muse family of AI […]

X says top accounts steal videos from other users as it announces new video tools
X says top accounts steal videos from other users as it announces new video tools

Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said in a post on Monday that “[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral,” while noting that videos on the platform “make up close to half the impressions on X.” According to Bier, X is launching a […]

X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green-screen effects, and other editing tools.

Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images
Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images

Discord says a bug affecting its safety system caused it to mistakenly ban more than 8,000 accounts since May. The platform’s statement follows a wave of reports from users over the past week, who say they’ve been banned for posting images containing grids, such as chessboards, game textures, and even Minecraft inventories. Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord […]

Social media ban for young users is proving to be an age verification nightmare

Researchers created 50 social media accounts claiming to belong to 16-year-olds and found that none of the major platforms asked users to prove their age