Spotify Axes Heardle—Its Music-based Wordle
Today’s Heardle was quite the doozy. Screenshot: Gizmodo The viral word game Wordle has spawned its fair share of clones, from Octordle to Absurdle to the movie-based Framed. Unfortunately, Heardle,…
Nine Weather Apps That Will Make You Forget Apple Killed Dark Sky
Screenshot: Carrot Weather This weather app injects your weather report with a touch of personality. You can select which personality Carrot Weather has from a list of options, from Professional…
Nationwide Campaign of Digitally Generated Swatting Calls Bought on Telegram
Swatting refers to the act of lying to law enforcement about a bomb threat or by framing someone else in a certain location as having committed a crime or harboring…
The Latest Push for Monetization at Twitter Is Here
Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced on Thursday that users will be able to offer subscriptions to their followers, piggybacking off the platform’s previous “Super Follow” function. The new money-making effort…
Microsoft is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update, released Tuesday, offers a few small bug and compatibility fixes as well as a lighter taskbar. Oh, and there’s one small, tiny extra detail. A…
Android 14’s First Public Beta is Now Available to Install on Your Pixel Device
Android 14 is officially out of developer preview and available as a public beta. If you’re interested in running the next version of the operating system before it’s fully baked…
Pentagon Classified Documents Leak Linked to Discord
Image: rafapress (Shutterstock) After a batch of classified documents were leaked from the Pentagon, it appears open-source intelligence analysts have pinned the leak down to an unlikely place: Discord. The…
Instagram Founders’ News App Artifact Adds ‘Reputation Scores’ and Comments
Image: Courtesy of Artifact Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram’s co-founders, has added comments and discussion on articles, marking the first public social components of the new…
Twitter Is Dead: It’s All ‘X Corp’ Now
Twitter has been subsumed by billionaire Elon Musk in more ways than one. Now, however, the company itself is officially no longer its own entity, having been officially gobbled up…
Is Twitter Circles Broken?
If you’re a regular Twitter Circles user, you should probably stop posting things you wouldn’t want seen by the wider public. Numerous tweeters are reporting that their supposedly private Twitter…