Snap sent alerts to students during class hours despite knowing the risk of distraction

Internal documents from lawsuits filed by 1,400+ school districts reveal how Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube deliberately targeted students, even during school hours.

Cyberdecks used to look like little laptops, but now they’re getting more personal
Cyberdecks used to look like little laptops, but now they’re getting more personal

DIYer and TikTok user Annike Tan, who goes by @ubeboobey, can carry her cyberdeck around without anyone noticing because it doesn’t look like a computer at all. Tan, who has been featured in The Cut and Wired, went viral earlier this year with a mermaid-themed cyberdeck she made inside an old purse. She has since […]

Coursera wants users to learn through shorter, faster content

Coursera has launched an AI-powered short-form content feed that delivers personalized educational videos based on users’ interests and learning habits.

TikTok launches TikTok Pro Events, an app for cultural moments like the FIFA World Cup

The app allows users to engage with other fans, explore trending videos, and access curated creator feeds.

TikTok’s road to becoming a super app

TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.

AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk
AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: “Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on […]

ByteDance is building its own CPUs on Arm and RISC-V to feed its AI infrastructure
ByteDance is building its own CPUs on Arm and RISC-V to feed its AI infrastructure

The TikTok parent is developing custom data-centre processors on two parallel architectures as Intel and AMD push prices up 10-35% a quarter and US export controls bite. ByteDance is developing its own central processing units to power the data centres…

The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design
The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design

The TikTok parent will buy millions of Qualcomm application-specific chips for AI data centres and use Qualcomm to take its own design from blueprint to production. Qualcomm has struck a deal to supply ByteDance with millions of application-specific in…

Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music

For years, UMG has pushed platforms, streaming services, and AI companies to implement stricter content moderation policies

Social media is stealing your happiness one scroll at a time

The World Happiness Report found that the more time you spend on social media, the greater the loss to your well-being, and young people in the West are feeling it the most.