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X is piloting a new transparency tool called Under the Hood that lets eligible users see whether visibility-related labels have been applied to their accounts or posts. The social media giant introduced the tool on August 13, along with the release of a much larger portion of the code behind its For You feed, including…

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Elon Musk’s AI company has stopped selling software that simply helps you work and started offering a squad of always-on AI agents. The firm, now branding itself as SpaceXAI, released its beta product named Grok Bot on August 11. Each agent gets its own computer in the cloud, signs into tools that a company already…

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Scientists from the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf say they believe the leap from pre-cellular metabolic reactions to free-roaming life happened not once, but twice. The research focuses on differences between bacteria and archaea — another form of unicellular life. In current models of evolution, the split between archaea and bacteria…<...

After more than a decade, Bumble has ended the women-message-first rule that had come to define the app. The company announced the decision on August 11, saying that now either men or women could make the first move after a match. On any other dating app, a small change in how users communicate wouldn’t be…

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Meta and TikTok’s attempt to keep one of the biggest social media lawsuits in history away from a jury has encountered an irritatingly old-fashioned obstacle: the law. On Monday (August 10), the Ninth Circuit dismissed Meta’s attempt to immediately appeal rulings allowing claims brought by state attorneys general and others to proceed. Meta had argued…

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