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The anonymous social app that thinks it can work in Saudi Arabia
13+ hour, 44+ min ago (553+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Fizz, an anonymous social app that started on college campuses, is going global in more ways than one. Its Global Fizz feed is enabling the…...
A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying sign-up process (and it’s working)
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (761+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Sonder's founders couldn't bear to encounter one more dating app profile in which someone boldly declared that their most controversial opinion is that they like…...
WhatsApp notifies hundreds of users who installed a fake app that was actually government spyware
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (456+ words) WhatsApp says it has notified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a malicious fake version of the chat app that contained government spyware." WhatsApp accused Italian spyware maker SIO of creating a fake version of its messaging app for…...
Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (387+ words) TikTok has quietly added a secret emoji game that you can access in your DMs. The goal of the game is simple: use your finger to bounce as high as you can by hopping across alligators. Avoid the skeleton alligators,…...
Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (390+ words) Sweden-based caller ID app Truecaller said Tuesday that it has hit the milestone of 500 million monthly active users on its platform. The company said that it also crossed the mark of 150 million users outside India, its biggest market with over…...
Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (188+ words) Google said on Tuesday that it is now rolling out a way for users in the U.S. to change their Gmail address without starting over or losing access to their data. Users who have access to this feature can go to…...
Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (513+ words) Apple has provided federal agents with the real identities of at least two customers who used one of the company's privacy features designed to mask their email addresses from apps and websites. "Hide My Email" is a feature that allows…...
The Pixel 10a doesn't have a camera bump, and it's great
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (447+ words) For years now, smartphone makers have made the camera bump on devices bigger in order to chase camera improvements. Even if that kind of design makes cameras better, at times, it creates usability issues. With the Pixel 10a, Google took a…...
Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patel's personal email account
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (433+ words) A hacking group backed by the Iranian government dubbed "Handala" said on Friday that it has breached the personal email account of FBI director Kash Patel." In a post on its website, Handala included several pictures of a visibly younger…...
Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing
1+ week, 1+ day ago (250+ words) As AI makes inroads into the worlds of editorial and media, websites are scrambling to establish ground rules for its usage. This week, Wikipedia banned the use of AI-generated text by its editors " although it stopped short of banning AI…...