Reddit Is Choking Off RSS and Open Web Access to Keep AI Bots Out

Many are worried that killing RSS feeds will destroy one of the last open, user-controlled ways to read the web.

Discord opens its ad business to smaller brands, Ars Technica reports
Discord opens its ad business to smaller brands, Ars Technica reports

Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, it said on Tuesday. S…

Woman loses 20 years of ‘digital memories’ after Meta deletes her accounts
Woman loses 20 years of ‘digital memories’ after Meta deletes her accounts

A woman lost 20 years of memories after Meta permanently closed her account and blocked any appeal.

LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft
LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft

Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn before taking over Microsoft’s Office group, will leave the company at the end of 2026, as Jordan Novet reported for CNBC. Chief executive Satya Nadella announced the exit in a memo to staff on Thursday, according to CN…

Instagram’s Edits app gets an AI assistant that reads your Reels data
Instagram’s Edits app gets an AI assistant that reads your Reels data

Instagram is putting a chatbot inside Edits, its video editing app for creators. The tool reads a creator’s Instagram data and suggests what to make next. It is rolling out to all Edits users in the US, Brett Westervelt, who leads the app, wrote in a b…

Christina Ricci Joins Reese’s Search For America’s Top Halloween Street

Yellowjackets star Christina Ricci joins Kathy Najimy and digital creators on Reese’s first Halloween Council, connecting film, TV and social media audiences.

SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports
SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports

SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artifi…

Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping
Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping

Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a site’s new posts in a feed r…

Meta expands Instagram’s School Partnership Program in the US
Meta expands Instagram’s School Partnership Program in the US

Meta is adding new features to Instagram’s School Partnership Program in the US, allowing schools and verified high school students to share news about clubs, sports teams, and events, the company announced. The update arrives a month after Meta’s sett…

X withheld nearly 500 accounts in Turkey in a week, censorship monitor says
X withheld nearly 500 accounts in Turkey in a week, censorship monitor says

According to a report by Bloomberg on Tuesday, X has concealed around 500 accounts from users in Turkey over the past week, many of which are operated by reporters, economists and academics. The figure is provided by EngelliWeb, a censorship monitoring…