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Logging into social media accounts repeatedly can be a pain, which is why every social media application and website gives users the option to stay logged in. However, according to recent reports, several Instagram users and the ever-increasing number of Threads users are automatically getting logged out of their accounts. Interestingly, these reports surfaced hours after Instagram went down for many users. The timing indicates that the problem might be related to the previous outage. Meta owns Instagram and Threads, so…

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For some bizarre reason (OK, ), Twitter is becoming less useful almost by the day. In its latest misstep, it seems the service is no longer letting people who aren't signed in see any tweets. Until now, logged-out users were still able to check out tweets and user profiles, but at least for the time being, they'll have to either sign up for an account or plug in their login credentials to see whatever Twitter owner Elon Musk pinched today.  spotted the issue, which Engadget has confirmed on multiple browsers and…

Google is finally cracking down on inactive accounts. This week, Google announced an update to its inactivity policy, lowering the amount of time that a Google Account can stay inactive to two years. Starting later in 2023, if you haven’t used or logged in to a Google Account for at least two years, Google may delete the account and all of its contents. That includes content within Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar, YouTube, and Google Photos. As Google explains, accounts that haven’t been accessed for an…

The sky above the farm is the color of static, tuned to the thoughts of a dead man. Fox Mulder clings to a telephone pole, examining a nondescript grey box labeled “OPTIC FIBER CONNECTION’’ before following a thick rope of cables to a trailer parked out back. He’s about to meet an online artificial consciousness hiding in a dimly lit nest of wires and ports and monitors. It’s been using a secret government T3 network — the gold standard of high-bandwidth internet connections — to commit 32 flavors of crime and mayhem. I’m…

Forest cleared for palm oil planting in Aceh province, Indonesia.Photo: Ulet Ifansasti (Getty Images)If you’ve ever been offered the opportunity to donate money to plant a tree to offset a purchase, you’ve probably guessedthat trees naturally store carbon. Forests are an invaluable source of carbon storage around the world; one would assume that forests that have been cut down but are regrowing trees are also regaining their capacity to store carbon.But that assumption may be incredibly incorrect. Forests that are…

Fox Corp. FOX 5.02% Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Lachlan Murdoch touted the value of scale on a call with analysts Tuesday to discuss results for the company’s most recently completed quarter.“Our peers are getting bigger,” Mr. Murdoch said. Scale, he added, lends flexibility in many ways. Mr. Murdoch made his comments on the importance of size amid the backdrop of a potential merger of Fox with News Corp,…

Twitter has disclosed a bug that allowed accounts to stay logged in from multiple devices after a voluntary password reset, putting users' data at potential hacking risk.The company said that it has fixed the bug that didn't close all active logged in sessions on Android and iOS devices after an account's password was reset."If you proactively changed your password on one device, but still had an open session on another device, that session may not have been closed. Web sessions were not affected and were closed…

A lot of people are watching short-form videos on YouTube after nearly two years of YouTube giving creators lucrative cash bonuses and expanding features to be increasingly like TikTok. 1.5 billion monthly users who are logged in to an account are watching short-form videos on YouTube’s TikTok clone, the company announced today. That’s compared to around 2 billion logged-in users who visit the platform monthly as of April, according to TechCrunch. Launched in 2020, YouTube Shorts is the platform’s answer to TikTok’s…

An extensive study reveals that up to 3% of websites may collect your form inputs even before you ever press “Submit.” That’s right — even if you type something and then delete it, these websites will still record your keystrokes and remember the things you chose not to input. The data, collected without your knowledge and consent, can contain some of the most personal information, that can later be used for various purposes, such as targeted ads. Kuleuven The study is titled, “Leaky Forms: A Study of Email and…