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Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech; now, it’s the one-year anniversary since he made his […]

Bills targeting book bans raise concerns about the penalties libraries could face

Bills against book bans are gaining traction in state legislatures around the country — and with them have come worries about the potentially negative impact on libraries themselves. The number of banned books across the country saw an almost two-thirds increase in 2023 from the previous year, to more than 4,200 titles, according to a […]

X is testing NSFW adult communities, according to screenshots

X is living up to its name. The platform, formerly Twitter, is working on an addition to its Communities feature that would let X users create groups for X-rated material, according to app researchers. Researcher Daniel Buchuk of Watchful, which analyzes app development and performance, found the feature through reverse engineering the app. He shared […]

Buy now, pay later on a Porsche? Zaver now has $30M to make it a reality

We last checked in on Zaver, a Swedish B2C buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) provider in Europe, when it raised a $5 million funding round in 2021. The company has now closed a $10 million extension to its Series A funding round, bringing its total Series A to $20 million. Total investment to date stands at $30 million. […]

Air Force Academy Paid Over $250K to Spy On Cadets, Faculty for ‘Extremism’

U.S. Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons January 6 triggered a widespread movement within the Department of Defense to identify any “right-wing extremists” within the ranks. The Secretary of Defense ordered an “extremism down day,” and studies were commissioned to discover how deep “extremism” had rooted itself in the military. Hundreds of thousands of […]

Final fourth quarter GDP revised upwards as consumer spending rises

An uptick in consumer spending helped boost U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter. (iStock) The third and final estimate for real gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2023 was revised upwards, showing that the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4%, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The reading […]