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It was easy to view Substack's 2023 Nazi controversy as a kicked can that could turn up again. Well, white supremacist content led to another headache for the company this week. User Mag reported on Tuesday that the app ...

Saudi Arabia has seen a significant rebound in startup funding, attracting $860 million in venture capital during the first half of 2025. This marks a substantial increase from the $750 million in funding recorded for th...

YouTube has changed its ad guideline policy surrounding swear words, allowing creators a bit more freedom than before. In a video announcement, YouTube's head of monetization, Conor Kavanagh, said that videos containing ...

Home is where the smart lights inexplicably stop working.

Spotify is introducing new requirements to confirm the ages of users in the UK trying to access explicit content. The streaming platform is implementing a facial scan process in partnership with Yoti, which also provides...

Fable, a startup designing tools to generate animated TV shows from scratch, is launching an AI-powered streaming service this week, Variety reports. The service is called Showrunner, and it will allow subscribers to gen...

President Donald Trump's latest economic move is to halt the de minimis exemption, a provision that made international shipments of low-value items cheaper. When the exemption ends on August 29, shipments valued at or un...

Spear AI, a startup founded by two U.S. Navy veterans, has secured $2.3 million in seed funding and a $6 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The company aims to revolutionize underwater surveillance using artificial int...

Liberals are losing interest in all EVs, thanks to Musk.

Google has fixed the bug, which it says affected only "a tiny fraction of websites."

The Federal Communications Commission approved the $8 billion merger between Skydance Media and Paramount, with a controversial condition that Paramount must appoint a “bias monitor” to oversee CBS News. Why it matte...

Step into a new era of wearable tech that supports your health and fitness goals every day. The Omni Health Ring blends sleek design with powerful functionality.   –Design & Durability: Wear a titanium-alloy device th...

The Trump administration's latest and greatest assault on climate change mitigation would eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines.

That's a bad mix-up.

The site says it was an accident.

LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful content policy this week. The update, the company's first change in three years according to the site's own changelog, removed a line that stated the company prohibits...

BlackWood Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Denmark, has closed its debut fund. The firm raised over $25 million to support early-stage startups across Europe. By the end of the funding round, BlackWood had made ...

Dropbox is saying goodbye to its password manager after five years of service. This leaves current customers in a lurch, as the company has also announced that users only have a few months to extract all of their data. T...

Google has confirmed that its Android Earthquake Alerts system partially failed during the deadly earthquake that struck Turkey in February 2023. The system, which uses sensors in Android phones to detect early signs of ...

After largely focusing Google I/O 2025 on the ways the company wants Gemini to change everything from searching the web to filmmaking, Google is finally ready to launch new hardware. The next Made by Google event is on t...

io9 recaps its favorite, and least favorite, things about this year's mega pop culture convention.

Buying Windows 10 a one-year stay of execution doesn't have to cost anything.