Overall, Meta estimated that over 3.4 billion people used one of its "family of apps" on a daily basis.

Germ's new app lets users send end-to-end encrypted messages on Bluesky. TechCrunch speaks with the Germ founders to hear why they came up with the idea.

All U.S. TikTok users are able to view the notes that have been rated as helpful and submit their own ratings in return.

The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their teen's account to customize safety settings.

Dating safety app Tea experienced a second data breach in as many weeks, exposing over a million sensitive messages between users.

YouTube is introducing age-detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply protections.

BiteSight is a food-delivery app that lets users watch videos of food before ordering. It also lets customers see what their friends have ordered and bookmark places to try out.

X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform's best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.

Mastodon is experimenting with a new way to raise money: in-app donation banners.

By turning the Epstein conspiracy against Trump, the CEO of Tesla cracked the MAGA base, and now the movement that once worshipped the U.S. president is starting to rebel.

Twitch's tests are not widespread at this point, as AppSensa's research only found a handful of references in the app's code that mentioned the tests would focus on just "a few streamers" for the time being.

Meta appointed Connor Hayes, Meta's VP of product for generative AI, to become the head of Threads.

Jack Dorsey backs nonprofit 'and Other Stuff' with $10M to build open social technology.

Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a shakeup at X, Hugging Face’s new robot, new phones from Nothing and Samsung, and a whole lot more. Have a great weekend! Off to do something else: X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped down this week after a tumultuous […]

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as opposed to an AI-generated explanation for Grok’s posts. (xAI recently acquired X, where Grok is prominently featured.)

Before she stepped down, Yaccarino had a blue check next to her display name, accompanied by an X logo, signifying that she is affiliated with the company that brought us Mecha Hitler. Now both badges are gone.

X is still the dominant social media platform, but its daily active user base has declined and competitor Threads is seeing higher rates of growth.

Grok, the AI chatbot powered by Elon Musk's xAI company, is back with more antisemitic rants.

On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”