X/Twitter Is Shutting Down Circles Next Month
Twitter, recently renamed X, is shutting down its Circles feature. Circles allows users to share posts with select people rather than all of their followers but it seems Elon Musk…
Snap Is Doing What Twitter Can’t
Image: ThomasDeco (Shutterstock) As Elon Musk threatens to charge all users with a monthly subscription to access Twitter, Snap is seeing a userbase more willing to pay to use the…
We’re All Having Fun Building Iconic Spaceships From Fiction in Starfield
Screenshot: Gizmodo/Bethesda Starfield is the hotly-anticipated, recently-released video game from Bethesda Game Studios, the company behind the likes of other open-world titles like Fallout 4 and Skyrim. Todd Howard’s latest…
Reddit Is Handing Out Awards to Its Frustrated Moderators
Image: chrisdorney (Shutterstock) A tidal wave of strife plagued Reddit following the popular social media platform’s decision to charge exorbitant fees for access to its API. Now, the company wants…
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.
The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit’s controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host…
Judge Says Reddit Doesn’t Have to NARC on Users Who Discussed Torrenting
Image: Mehaniq (Shutterstock) Movie studios were served a big loss in their quest to take down pirates. This weekend, a federal court tossed a subpoena in a case against the…
Here’s a Timelapse of Reddit’s r/Place Protesting CEO Steve Huffman
Screenshot: Gizmodo The third incarnation of Reddit’s r/Place has come and gone, and now the social media platform has released a timelapse compilation of the project to highlight all of…
Reddit Takes Over Popular Subreddit Amid Moderator Protest
Reddit followed through on its threat to take over subreddits if they did not reopen to the public with its takeover of r/malefashionadvice on Thursday. Prior to closing down in…
Reddit Just Deleted Every Message You Sent Before 2023
Image: Ink Drop (Shutterstock) Veteran Reddit users have another thing coming after Reddit vowed to remove its famous Gold awarding system. The social media platform—which has been headed straight into…
Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools. If Google…