YouTube now has a way for parents to block kids from watching Shorts

Parents will be able to toggle the Shorts time limit on connected children’s accounts.

Meta to reportedly lay off 10% of Reality Labs staff

Meta is laying off 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, which is core to developing the company’s VR and metaverse products.

Instagram says there’s been ‘no breach’ despite password reset requests

Instagram says that although some users received suspicious-looking password reset requests, it has not been breached.

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power

Two smaller companies, Oklo and TerraPower, along with Vistra, a large energy company, just signed agreements with Meta.

X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire

Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children.

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags

You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.

Spotify now lets you share what you’re streaming in real time with friends

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

Roblox now requires all users globally to complete age checks to access chat

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

Threads is developing in-message games

Launching in-message games would give Threads an edge over competitors like X and Bluesky, which don’t offer built-in games.