Elon Musk confirms X accounts with certain subscriber levels will get Premium bonuses

Elon Musk already announced that AI chatbot Grok would be available for Premium as well as Premium+ members later this week, and now he’s making more tweaks to X’s paid tiers. Or, more specifically, he’s allowing some X users the same benefits as those that are paying. “Going forward, all X accounts with over 2500 … Read more

Florida Governor Signs Bill Banning Kids Under 14 From Having Social Media Accounts

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed one of the country’s most restrictive social media bills into law Monday, banning children under the age of 14 from having accounts and requiring children aged 14 to 16 to have parental consent to hold one. In addition to restrictions on teenage use of social media, the law, known as … Read more

Nsave gets $4M to enable people from unstable economies open offshore accounts

Nsave, a fintech based in Geneva making banking in Switzerland accessible to people in countries at war or those with unstable banking sectors or facing high inflation, has raised $4 million seed funding. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and TQ Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, SV Angel and FONGIT: the State of … Read more

CIA allegedly made fake social media accounts to troll the Chinese government

The CIA allegedly launched a secret operation to troll Chinese officials and turn public opinion against them through leaked intelligence and negative news on social media.  Reuters reports the operation began in 2019 and was also aimed at causing paranoia within Xi Jinping’s government. CIA agents reportedly made fake social media accounts to spread rumors, … Read more

Three Politicians Who Voted for the TikTok ‘Ban’ Have Active Accounts

The U.S. passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to force ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to divest from the social media platform or face a complete ban in the country. The bill passed 352 to 65 and needs to be taken up by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden to become law. But … Read more

Over 15,000 Roku accounts were breached. Here’s what you need to do

Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images After noticing suspicious activity on individual user accounts, Roku announced that 15,363 had been breached by unauthorized users who likely repurposed usernames and passwords from other breaches. Roku’s investigation found that these bad actors then used these accounts to pay for streaming services. Whether you were affected or not, this … Read more

Roku hackers breach 15,000 accounts and are selling them online

Hackers likely obtained account information exposed in previous data breaches of third-party services, Roku says. This kind of attack, called credential stuffing, involves hackers getting the emails and passwords exposed in data breaches and trying the combination on other services. Once they gained access to an account, Roku hackers changed the login information for some … Read more

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Deletes Her Instagram And Twitter Accounts

Did the publicity just become too much for Gypsy Rose Blanchard? This morning it came to our attention that her Instagram account @gypsyrose_a_blanchard, with millions of followers, has been deleted. Upon further investigation, The Blast found that not only has her popular Instagram profile gone missing, but it appears that her X account, the social … Read more

This Senator Wants to Know What Meta and TikTok Are Doing About Parent-Run Girl Influencer Accounts

In January, the CEOs of X, TikTok, Meta, Snap, and Discord testified in front of a congressional committee about child exploitation on their platforms. “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands,” Senator Lindsey Graham said at the time. … Read more

Telegram now lets users to convert personal accounts to business accounts

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced Wednesday that users on the chat app with personal accounts can now convert them into business accounts. This gives users the ability to list information such as location and opening hours, which might be helpful for small cafes and shop owners. Some of the other features for business accounts involve … Read more