kinda weird framing from KTLA here but fwiw these are the same glasses Snap has been showing off for the last year and a half... they've said the new ones coming this year will look (hopefully a lot) better

Bluesky reporting some more issues today..

Bluesky has been wonky all day bc of a DDoS that they are apparently still trying to get under control

NEW: The uncertain future facing Meta's Oversight Board isn't just about funding. The group sees a new opportunity to work w/ Gen AI companies and has even gotten some signs of interest from a few firms. But Meta needs to agree and so far, the company hasn't. www.engadget.com/social-media...

never understood the hype for Philz tbh

idk seems kinda telling that OpenAI is simultaneously saying they spent untold $$$ on TBPN to promote more "constructive" narratives about the AI industry but also they plan to let them keep editorial independence (which, lol, TBPN not exactly a hard hitting enterprise)

Some amazing details here, including SBF's parents filing a legal doc that was made to look like it was mailed by SBF from prison but was very obviously sent via FedEx (which isn't accessible in prison) in Palo Alto

when u have a good idea

So uh Vanity Fair did a big cover story on AI and was supposed to get an interview with Dario but Anthropic blew him off so he instead.. made one up with Claude and discloses it after the made-up interview. Cool. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

NEW: Meta is offering creators who have large followings on other platforms (but who don't regularly post on Facebook) up to $3k a month in bonuses if they start posting on Facebook, it's the company's latest plan to bring higher quality content and more well-known creators to the platform.

welp the new, new Digg didn't last long. like 2 months after launching publicly they are laying off a bunch of people and bringing back Kevin Rose to... fight the bots?

Meta is now facing a class action lawsuit over its smart glasses' privacy claims following reports that users' footage has been reviewed by human contractors in Kenya. www.engadget.com/social-media...

been meaning to do this but today seemed like a good day for it

X recently released a new open-source version of its algorithm, but researchers say it's not exactly a win for transparency. Here's my deep dive about what we can actually learn about it from the code that was shared, and allll the parts that are still missing. www.engadget.com/social-media...

but was it a "scoop of ideas" or a "scoop of explanation" 🤔

NYT White House correspondent is on X... bragging about buying a plane?

X's head of product says the platform will soon feature "starterpacks" to make it easier for people to find other users to follow.. wonder where I've heard that before

dear god

hmm this YouTuber claims that an unannounced “official” Harry Potter VR game (from .. Skydance) may have been one of the casualties of yesterday’s metaverse layoffs at Meta

Here it is, our robot recap of CES 206. We saw a bunch of cute robot “pets,” humanoids, laundry-doing robots and even a new AI robot friend from will.i.am (yes he’s at it again!) www.engadget.com/ai/the-robot...

Instagram's top exec Adam Mosseri just published a little manifesto on the state of Instagram and AI going into 2026 and .. it's quite telling! He basically says Meta should give up trying to proactively label AI content and that camera companies should be in charge of verifying what's real.

Meta describes this as a very "limited" test but there are some pretty big implications to making link-sharing a paid feature. Lots of people already assume Meta throttles posts w/ links but this suggests there may be a wider effort to reduce links across Facebook www.engadget.com/social-media...

New exclusive from me: Reddit is starting a new verification program beginning w/ public figures and brands, though the company hopes to make it available more widely in the future. Verified accounts get a gray checkmark (this will also replace the "official" badge). More details over @engadget.com

Pew just published its first look at how teens are using AI chatbots and there are some 👀 stats here.. close to a third of US teens say they are using AI chatbots daily or more and ChatGPT is the most widely used among teens by a fairly sizable margin. More ⬇ www.engadget.com/ai/nearly-on...

The Oversight Board is looking to expand its scope, starting w/ a pilot to explore account-level decisions (suspensions, etc.) which could allow it to take appeals related to account suspensions. The board also tells me it's had "very preliminary" conversations about working w/ other platforms.

That SF kinda cold is no joke 🥶

It's kind of incredible how much YouTube content there is that's just tutorials for engagement farming/monetizing accounts on social media. Most of the ones I've seen also heavily rely on gen AI tools for streamlining this too.. it's literally never been easier to make fake content for fake accounts

one thing that anyone who has studied the psychology of conspiracy theories will tell you is that it’s very de-stabilizing when you finally are forced to confront that you were wrong

X's handle marketplace is open for business. I discovered that I could request "elonfarts" (a "priority" handle) but not my own name ("karissa" is apparently a "rare handle?). Lots of meme potential here but there are *some strings* attached

the most charitable explanation I can think of for this is that at some point during interview prep he was told to pivot questions about safety to the "opportunity" to improve in other ways, but didn't quite actually figure out how to make that particular mental leap in a coherent way

Elon now claiming that Grok was "unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting" as xAI seems to be nuking the posts that claimed Elon was more fit than LeBron James, smarter than Einstein, etc.

Went to a screening of A24’s Eternity last night and I really enjoyed it! A quirky rom con that was genuinely funny and managed to not feel formulaic in the way so many rom cons do

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

wish Bluesky would expand this .. it kinda feels like an afterthought atm

Bluesky! Help me find a home for our beautiful, sweet foster kitty Leon. He’s a very chill 1 year old boy who loves attention and is great with other cats. Looking for his forever home now in and around San Francisco. More info ⬇️ www.adoptapet.com/pet/46272597...

Bluesky! Help me find a home for our beautiful, sweet foster kitty Leon. He’s a very chill 1 year old boy who loves attention and is great with other cats. Looking for his forever home now in and around San Francisco. More info ⬇️ www.adoptapet.com/pet/46272597...

idk sounds suspiciously like a participation trophy 👀

As an OG Foursquare fan, I'm reallyyy intrigued by this new project from @dens.nyc ... it also reminds me a bit of the very-much under-appreciated Foursquare app Marsbot which also attempted proactive recommendations (and was low-key one of my fave ways to find places to eat when I was traveling)

Scientific journals have been inundated by AI slop too (via letters to the editors) ... this article ends with "no one knows what to do" about this but seems like a cursory vetting process would weed out a lot of these? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

A good PSA and a reminder we still don't have a national data privacy law

The Onion (as usual) doesn't miss

There are so many crazy details in this story, but the one that has made me go "WTF" the most is when Meta's paid support told this creator (who has lived in the UK and Oregon) that his account was demonetized because his bank was based in Malta even though he banks w/ Wells Fargo.

👋 Here’s one I’ve been working on for a very long time: its about the business of viral Facebook content, Meta’s (often lack of) support for creators, and one man’s creative legal strategy to get the company’s help.

not to be cryptic but I got something cooking that I’ve been working on for more than 6 months and it’s sooo close to done.. have so many tabs I’m just waiting to close

Unfortunately, I think this is way more common with Substack than a lot of people realize. I recently emailed a creator for a story; I never heard back but a few days later I was suddenly subscribed to her Substack. I've also heard stories of people buying email lists to pump their subs.

I feel like Bluesky needs to see this extremely cute slow motion swat “fight” between my resident orange (tabby on the left) and my foster orange (large boi on the right). These two are still trying to figure out how to be friends and occasionally just smack each other for no reason.

I've reviewed every pair of Meta glasses, I've spent a lot of time wearing them. I always feel weird using the camera in public. I try to avoid it entirely around strangers. But everyone here saying people wearing these "deserve" to be punched in the face are not it. www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

More on X's plan to sell rare and "inactive" handles, some of which might sell for millions of dollars. It includes some commentary on how there are some similarities to the expired domain marketplace and X's history of swiping user handles even when they aren't inactive

I'm an occasional Waymo rider and have generally liked it a lot, but when I read about stuff like this all I can think about is how many people I know have relied on gig work (flawed as that model is) to stay afloat and how soon even that could disappear.. www.engadget.com/transportati...