Microsoft later told media outlets that the team added "temporary filters for select terms" after a spike in spam and "walls of text" that used the insult to disrupt conversations. According to the ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. When he first noticed the traffic spike, Quintero ...

Discord, an online messaging platform popular with gamers, will roll out age verification before users can access adult content. Accounts will otherwise default to a "teen-appropriate experience." The ...

If your Messages inbox is catching a lot of stray, unwanted messages, we'll show you how to filter, report, and block spam messages on iOS 26. At WWDC 2025, Apple announced that it would be bringing ...

The NBA’s trade deadline is looming large, and the Golden State Warriors find themselves at the center of a number of moves, including a potential Giannis Antetokounmpo deal. Anyone could be moved, ...

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he will oppose Trump’s next pick to chair the Federal Reserve until the administration ends its probe of the current one. Tillis, who hasn’t shied away from clashing ...

Tiktok said it is investigating why several users on the platform have been unable to send the word “Epstein” in direct messages—an issue California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is reviewing—after some ...

Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...

Google added a new crawler, robot, to its list of user-triggered fetchers in the Google crawlers documentation. This specific bot is named Google Messages and it is a fetcher "used to generate link ...

The moves highlight growing uncertainty over whether crypto prediction markets are to be treated as finance or gambling. Update Jan. 20, 12:29 p.m. UTC: This article has been updated to include a ...

Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute code changes, debug issues, ...