Hey, social media explorers! Today, we’re diving into one of the hottest and most exciting topics for creators in 2024—how Bitcoin and crypto wallets are empowering social media creators to take their content, revenue, and audience engagement to the next level. It’s an incredible shift that’s merging the worlds of digital finance and the…
Over the past few hours, YouTube appears to have accidentally removed channels and banned accounts for violating its “spam, deceptive practices, and scams policy” even for users that have never uploaded videos in what looks to be a bug. Update 10/4: As of Friday afternoon, “all channels incorrectly removed for Spam & Deceptive Practices have…
Although it’s an unofficial third-party app, Juno supports most of the features you’d expect out of a native YouTube app. You can watch videos (obviously), scrub and skip through them using pinch gestures, and it’ll even respect the videos’ aspect ratios. Browsing YouTube’s catalog is also supported (though you can’t see video comments), and Juno…
Sure, your fingerprint is one of a kind, but it might not keep your personal information safe any longer. That’s because a new version of the Chameleon Android malware reportedly allows bad actors to bypass your fingerprint feature to steal your PIN. According to researchers with ThreatFabric, the malware effectively tricks people into turning on…
There are many ways to generate passive income and change your financial future. Whether you want to earn just an extra $1000 per month on the side or go into something full-time and replace your current salary, different passive income ideas require different work and time. Upfront work is required, so don’t expect to get…
Meta is in hot water after announcing plans to remove politics from its recommendations across Instagram and Threads, its new Twitter-like app for text-based posts. That leaves a window of opportunity for the startup Bluesky, whose CEO Jay Graber recently explained that Meta’s decision is emblematic of the types of problems that could emerge when…
X announced a new long-form post format called Articles today. The feature, which is only available to Premium+ subscribers and verified organizations, lets users publish posts with text formatting, other X posts and embedded videos and images — akin to a post on a WordPress-like content management system or an article on Medium. The company’s…
Given just how much you’ve likely heard the words Barbie, Oppenheimer and Barbenheimer over the past couple weeks, it’s probably no surprise that the weekend’s hotly-anticipated movie double-bill had a huge box office opening weekend. But exactly how huge are we talking, and how do the numbers compare to some of the other biggest movie…
WhatsApp is teaming up with National Trading Standards to raise awareness of digital scams, and the ways people can stay safe and secure, also launching two new creator partnerships. This is an extension of a campaign first launched in 2021. New data from Citizens Advice show that in 2024 alone it has received at least…
Think nonprofits and Silicon Valley startups have nothing in common? Think again. I started my career working in a nonprofit setting, and now I’m a fractional marketing director for nonprofits. From higher education to arts and literacy organizations, I’ve seen it all. As a tech writer and editor, I’ve also steeped in the “rocket fuel”…
Various theories about the Carlee Russell case and the Red Roof Inn are circulating on TikTok, but there is no evidence to back up the claim that she faked an abduction. Theories about what happened to nursing student Carlee Russell when she was reported missing including claims that she may have faked an abduction have…
Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Dustin Shahidehpour and Katherine Zak, two software engineers at Meta, to talk about their careers and what it’s really like to ship code at Meta. Why does Meta have…
Linus Media Group (LMG) founder Linus Sebastian explained LMG’s HR policies and how it will improve accuracy and ethics in a video posted to YouTube last night. Following a 10-day pause to evaluate its processes, Sebastian said the company held meetings with team members to “dig through every misstep” and identify “communication and … teamwork…
When Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh computer 40 years ago this week, it seemed like there was no limit to the things this futuristic device could do, or the number of units Apple could shift. Some 72,000 Macs were shipped during its first 100 days on sale, far outstripping Apple’s goal of 50,000 Macs —…