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An Arkansas law requiring social media companies to verify the ages of their users has been by a federal judge who ruled that it was unconstitutional. The decision is a significant victory for the social media companies and digital rights groups that have opposed the law and others like it. Arkansas became the second state … Read more

TikTok is yet again counting down to a federal ban unless some kind of a deal is struck by the end of the week. The popular social media app faces a Saturday deadline to sell itself to a buyer deemed fit by US officials or face being banned in this country. But a lot could … Read more

The Trump administration has, through its attempted deportation of college students vocally critical of Israel, made clear that it does not believe free speech applies to foreign-born residents. Substack, the popular online publishing platform, is aligning itself with free expression. The company announced that it will partner with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression … Read more

The Trump administration, working in coordination with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. In communities across the US, the cuts threaten student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to popular digital services, such as the ebook app Libby. On … Read more

ChatGPT’s image generation tool rolled out to free users this week — which means pretty much everyone can now use OpenAI’s tool to create images. There are, obviously, endless things you can do with the tool. It all comes down to the prompts you feed into ChatGPT. The new image generator, part of ChatGPT‘s 4o … Read more

NaNoWriMo, a twenty-five-year-old online writing community-turned-nonprofit, announced on Monday evening that it is shutting down. NaNoWriMo — an abbreviation of National Novel Writing Month — is an annual challenge for writers to complete a rough draft of a novel during the month of November. After starting as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999, the project … Read more

Android Central Labs (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central) Android Central Labs is a weekly column devoted to deep dives, experiments, and a focused look into the tech you use. It covers phones, tablets, and everything in between. As I pulled the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra out of my pocket, an unfamiliar friction met … Read more

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Artificial intelligence is starting to get a bit of backlash, and it’s easy to see why. Following the initial excitement after ChatGPT burst onto the scene a couple of years ago, it now feels like we’re having AI shoved down our throats everywhere we look. As annoying as it can … Read more

Britain’s flagship AI agency will slash the number of projects it backs and prioritize work on defense, environment and health as it seeks to respond to technological advances and criticism of its record. From a report: The Alan Turing Institute — named after the pioneering British computer scientist — will shut or offload almost a … Read more

In iOS 18.2, Apple introduced a major change to iPhone’s Mail app with a new Categories feature, which has now been rolled out to iPad and Mac with iPadOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4. Categories automatically sorts your emails into four distinct sections: Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions. However, while this organizational system aims to … Read more