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Meta announced it is implementing new transparency measures" on Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday in response to the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires Meta to comply by August 25. The measures will reportedly include archiving all targeted ads for users in the EU in its existing Ad Library...Read more...

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Gareth Edwards dives into his vision for The Creator. One familiar face may not return for Scream 7. Plus, creepy new looks at a bunch of new indie horror films. Spoilers, away!

Twitter owner Elon Musk seems to think his site would look a lot better without any helpful, descriptive headlines that describe users' posted links. This is also the man who still thinks that dull X" logo represents his new brand, so that's not saying much about Musk's overall aesthetic taste.Read more...

Elon Musk's Twitter (now known as X) is going great! After news broke that a glitch caused most of the platform's content from 2014 and before to be scrubbed, the company released an update claiming that the bug has been zapped.Read more...

After rumors of an incoming web version of Meta's struggling Twitter-clone Threads, the web app for the social media platform is now live.Read more...

Babies' and toddlers' access to more screen time could lead to developmental risks, according to a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association of Pediatrics (JAMA) on Monday. The study, conducted by researchers in Japan looked at the amount of time 7,097 children spent on tablets, phones,...Read more...

After working with writer Scott Snyder on the dark apocalyptic horror of Nocterra, artist Tony S. Daniel is taking on both writing and art duties for his next creator-owned comic-a fantastical war for the safety of America between witches and demons.Read more...

From the time I knew what intersections were, I said my family lived at the crossing of Inwood Road and Preston Road in North Dallas. I asserted that fact certainly for the better part of a decade. Then I found out those two roads ran parallel to each other. Then we moved to a different house. I did eventually learn...Read more...

What's this? A new book about the making and impact of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, just in time for spooky season.

School is back in session and if there's still fandom gear to check off your shopping list, io9 has you covered.Read more...

The goofy, deadpan performances of Barbie obviously work on screen, but what were they like to film? Well, a new video has surfaced thanks to Atlantic Records answering that question and more. It's a full music video for the film's standout chart-topping bop I'm Just Ken" by Ryan Gosling, but it's filled with behind-...Read more...

Been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate 3 and found yourself thinking god, I love all of these Dungeons & Dragons characters in this Dungeons & Dragons video game. What if I simply played them in Dungeons & Dragons?" Well, the good news is that Wizards of the Coast and Larian have made that even more absurdly easy than...Read more...

US government regulators reportedly tried to come to an agreement with TikTok to prevent banning the app that would have granted the federal government vast powers over the app. That's according to a draft of a deal between TikTok and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) obtained by Forbes...Read more...

The summer of foldables has started fizzling out, and now we're moving on to the next batch of flagship phones. Google's Pixel 8/8 Pro is expected to be the next major Android smartphone release this fall. And it might be Google's first eSIM-only smartphone. Apple went eSIM-only with the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro...Read more...

It might only take 22 people to establish a colony on Mars, though that small group of cosmic inhabitants should have agreeable personality types to survive on the Red Planet, according to new research.Read more...

Even with the inclusion of collectibles from the Nickelodeon, Paramount, and Hello Kitty back catalogs, the NFT platform Recur is calling it quits after several years of pumping the internet full of monetized images of The Godfather's similarly ineffective Fredo.Read more...

What we've seen so far of Ahsoka seems promising, especially for fans of Star Wars Rebels waiting to see just what is up with those characters after the events of the show. But something has been missing: a spark, an energy, a little frisson of silliness and personality. That something is Chopper, and, at long last, a...Read more...

The Writers' Guild of America West has released a 15-page report on the big three streaming services, outlining exactly how far each one has gone to preserve and maintain their monopoly in the space. The three companies at the heart of the report are Disney, Amazon, and Netflix. All three of these streaming services...Read more...

850 people are currently still missing in Maui, more than two weeks after the fires first sparked, Maui County's Mayor Richard Bissen said.Read more...

Montana's lawsuit-hungry attorney general Austin Knudsen wants US courts to think of TikTok less like a light-hearted home for viral trends and more akin to the harbinger of a life-threatening disease. In recent court filings defending his state's unprecedented ban on the short-form video app, Knudsen compared TikTok ...Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Ring Nebula with its two primary imagers, revealing the gaseous formation in never-before-seen detail.Read more...

X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial. The feature, which is currently only offered to/forced on premium Blue" subscribers, asks users to fork over a selfie and a picture of a government issued ID to...Read more...

The biggest complaint about seeing a movie in theaters these days is that it's too damned expensive. And for 364 days in a year, that's true. But for one day, one magical day, movie costs come down so low, you'd think it you'd traveled back in time 50 years, and that day is coming soon.Read more...

It's a scarily good time to be a fan of horror TV, with Chucky recently revealing its season three premiere date, and now Shudder's Creepshow anthology series announcing its own return. Season four of Greg Nicotero's George A. Romero-inspired series drops Friday, October 13 on Shudder and AMC+.Read more...

YouTube is embracing the future of artificial intelligence in the music industry by creating a YouTube Music AI Incubator to protect" artists and their work, the company said in a press release on Monday. The streaming platform partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG) to launch the Music AI Incubator, working...Read more...

With Samsung pouring its marketing money into its latest foldable phones, the company is trying to snatch up potential iPhone 15 customers by showing them all the fun and weirdness of using two screens, so long as they have an additional iPhone on hand and they're easily distracted by playing a dull game of air hockey.Read more...

The point of BeReal is simple: Keep your circle tight. The app where most accounts are private and users can only post once a day is unveiling a new Friends of Friends feature that allows users to explore what people they kinda know are up to.Read more...

Tropical storm Hilary swept over Baja California and up into Southern California this weekend, flooding roads and felling trees. This is the first tropical storm to hit the state in over 80 years, the Associated Press reports.Read more...

The Hubble Space Telescope is no spring chicken, having operated in space for over 30 years. But the veteran observatory soldiers on. It recently imaged a massive galaxy cluster that could hold secrets about both dark and ordinary matter.Read more...

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As the streaming era devolves into a wave of cutbacks, consolidation, and the removing of original content for the sake of tax breaks, it's become more important than ever that physical releases of streaming original media offers a legal path to people still being able to actually access that content. Thankfully,...Read more...

The Luna-25 mission crashed on the surface of the Moon this weekend, ending Russia's quest to prove it still has what it takes to land on the lunar surface.Read more...

Could a fifth Thor movie really be on the way? Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is getting ready to celebrate Life Day. Al Gore strikes back in new Futurama pics. Plus, what's coming on Riverdale's final episode. To me, my spoilers!Read more...

Tesla's data breach in May, which affected more than 75,000 people, was an inside job, the company said in a notice released to its customers on Friday. According to the notice, German news outlet Handelsblatt informed Tesla of the breach on May 10 after obtaining the confidential information.Read more...

Nintendo has announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Charles Martinet, who has been the video game voice actor for Mario since 1991, is retiring. He will be stepping into a new role" of Mario Ambassador.Read more...

As the cold war between Elon Musk's Twitter (recently rebranded as X) and Mark Zuckerberg's Threads rages on, the latter is preparing to launch a new offensive. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that Threads was finally getting a bona fide browser version.Read more...

Are you already entirely up to date with all the iPhone 15 rumors ahead of its expected debut next month? Well, don't let the impending release stop you from squinting at the product IDs for Apple's processor series two years in advance.Read more...

One Piece, a beloved, long-running manga and anime that has been read and watched worldwide, is finally coming to live-action. Eiichiro Oda, the original manga's author/artist has been working alongside Netflix throughout the production. A new featurette shows off some all new footage plus interviews with the cast and...Read more...

Last year, a friend came to me with a strange tech problem. The algorithm is screwing me over," he said, peering over a drink at a bar in Manhattan's East Village. Anthony, a 31-year old engineer who asked to withhold his real name, had been on the dating app Hinge for five years. He said he always had a hard time...Read more...

The website for former President Donald Trump's legal defense fund appears to have been hacked and defaced over the weekend. As of the writing of this blog, the defacement is still live on the site and has not been taken down.Read more...

Twitch is finally letting streamers block out those viewers they've already banned from chat. However, these bans won't be based on any user identifier beyond accounts, so the various kinds of insufferable Twitch-holes who are dedicated enough could still find ways to watch.Read more...

Every superhero movie is judged by how well their villain worked, and for the MCU, the success rate of antagonists is up and down. Nowhere is this more apparent than with Thor's movies: Loki and Hela are pretty good villains, Malekith and the Dark Elves aren't, and Gorr the God Butcher ultimately depends on how you...Read more...

Warner Bros. has spent years announcing (and quietly canceling) DC movies of all different shades, which made it a bit of a surprise that a movie based on Blue Beetle actually made it to release. DC films have been in an odd place for nearly a decade now, and this movie was now different, having originally been...Read more...

More often than not, queer stories with supernatural elements focus on the vampires. After all, biting hard enough to draw blood is just inherently erotic, and a lot of supernatural fiction tends to play up how being a dhampir can be sexual in some form or fashion. But for those whose taste skews a little furrier, it...Read more...

The Hollywood strikes have been going on for quite a while-specifically Day 38 for SAG-AFTRA, and Day 111 for the WGA. During this time, most actors and writers haven't been doing promo for any project they're involved with that's been released out into the world. It's the price they're willing to pay in order to get...Read more...

Before we learned that David Corenswet would be playing Superman in DC movies for the next several years, various outlets such as ourselves reported that James Gunn's Superman movie was going to focus on a younger version of the character. It was an important thing to note at the time since Henry Cavill's Superman...Read more...

For our series on innovation, Gizmodo spoke to Olivia Grace, senior director of product management at Slack's headquarters in San Francisco, about recent and upcoming changes to the company's flagship chat software.Read more...

Getting Google to search the web for you is all well and good, but there's a ton of functionality available through the simple-looking box on the world's most-visited website. You could call these bonus features, or Easter eggs, or hidden tricks-but they're all useful in your own way, and can be launched by heading to ...Read more...

First it seemed like The Flash would never come out, for a variety of reasons. Then when it did actually see the light of day, its time in theaters was...kind of a mess. Now, after being an NFT and getting a surprise VOD drop in-mid July, the DC Comics movie is coming to Max about a week from now.Read more...