Social Media Is Bad for Kids. What’s Being Done About It?
Young people often spend long hours on social media despite mounting evidence that it’s not good for them. Health experts list harms as varied as lost sleep, eating disorders and suicide.
Meta is building the ‘mother of all’ subsea cables
Meta is reportedly planning to build a world-spanning fiber-optic subsea cable for its own exclusive use. According to ...
Australian parliament approves law to ban under-16s from social media
Australia's full legislature has now passed a bill that will soon ban children under the age of 16 from using most social ...
Meta Platforms: Still A Fantastic Business At A Good Price
Meta Platforms' financial health and user growth make it a strong investment. Find out why META stock remains a buy, despite ...
Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’
Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta's Threads, Meta is developing ...
Meta’s Threads has added 35M new signups since November 1, Axios reports
Meta’s Threads has had 35M new signups since November 1 and is now going on three months of more than 1M signups per day, Meta spokesperson ...
Microsoft is using Word and Excel user data for AI training by default (or not?... Update)
Microsoft has reached out to confirm that it does not use customer data to train its large language models. They ...
StockTok: Meta to face FTC monopoly trial in April
Welcome to “StockTok,” The Fly’s weekly recap of Wall Street’s reactions to social media stock news. Don't Miss our Black Friday Offers:Unlock ...
Threads says 35 million users signed up in November
Meta’s Threads has accrued over 35 million signups so far in November and is “going on three months with more than a million ...
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No, Ireland won’t pay you to move to an island; it offers grant money to fix up vacant homes
A grant program in the initiative seems to have caused confusion about Ireland paying people to move there. Ireland doesn’t pay anyone to move to an island, but it does offer Vacant Property ...