Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he’s launching a new social network called Truth Social, whose goal is to push back against Big Tech, according to a press release purported to come from one of his companies. The Trump Media and Technology Group, which made the announcement, said the social network will begin a limited …

Netflix, in the last 24 hours, struck a more sympathetic tone in the ongoing backlash over comments in Dave Chappelle’s comedy special criticized as transphobic. The softened stance came ahead of a planned employee walkout on Wednesday. The company values “our trans colleagues and allies” and understands the “deep hurt that’s been caused,” a Netflix spokeswoman said in a statement …

The Senate will hold a hearing on Oct. 26 with TikTok, YouTube and Snap’s Snapchat to examine the platforms’ impact on young users’ safety, the Senate Commerce consumer protection subcommittee said Tuesday. “Recent revelations about harm to kids online show that Big Tech is facing its Big Tobacco moment — a moment of reckoning,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the …

Facebook on Sunday responded to a news report that its artificial intelligence program has had little effect at curbing and removing violent content from the social network. The Wall Street Journal cited internal documents from 2019 in its reporting that the social network’s engineers estimated the company’s algorithms remove only a small fraction of problematic content that violate rules. “The problem …

Facebook is reportedly trying to reduce insider leaks by making some of its internal online discussion groups private instead of public. Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it’s limiting who can view and participate in some “Integrity” groups focused on platform safety and protecting elections, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The move comes after Frances Haugen, a former Facebook …

The white-backed woodpecker is one the rarest and the most vulnerable of the woodpeckers in Europe. Though races of the bird can be found as far east as Korea and Japan, its numbers are in decline in Nordic countries, leading the Swedish to enact protections to try to preserve the species. There are currently more than 38,000 species of animals …

Samsung announced Tuesday that it’ll hold its fourth Unpacked event of the year virtually on Oct. 20. Like the Unpacked event in August, Galaxy Unpacked Part 2 will be livestreamed. Samsung didn’t give much in the way of hints about what to expect at the event, but by all appearances it’ll be colorful and may involve apps. It’s hard to …

HTC is widely expected to unveil its new Vive Flow VR headset on Thursday, but we may already have an idea of what it looks like, thanks to images posted by prolific leaker Evan Blass. The first batch of images Blass posted to Twitter appears to show the headset with a tether connection to another device, perhaps something portable like …

Samsung’s rebound from the tech slowdown and pandemic lockdown appears to be gaining steam. The Korean electronics giant said Thursday that it expects its operating profit for the third quarter to come in at 12.25 trillion won ($13.2 billion), an increase of nearly 28% compared with the year-ago period. Samsung also pegged its revenue for the three-month period ended Sept. …

Facebook’s hours-long outage on Monday left its nearly 3 billions users unable to connect with each other on the service, and apparently not everyone was content to wait for the social networking giant to work out its problem. The company behind Telegram, an instant-messaging-app rival to Facebook’s Messenger, said Tuesday that it added 70 million users while Facebook was offline …