YouTube employees admitted that their goal was “viewer addiction” and killed proposed safety tools for kids because they wouldn’t provide a sufficient “ROI” — financial lingo for “return on investment ...

Seeed Studio reBot Arm B601-DM is a fully open-source 6-axis robotic arm (plus a parallel gripper) designed to lower the ...

A YouTube employee emailed colleagues in 2012 that the goal in creating a new app “is not viewership, it’s viewer addiction,” according to the internal message revealed in a personal injury case about ...

That’s a lot of cat videos. YouTube has been crowned the world’s largest media company, riding a years-long wave of user-generated videos — including millions of cat videos — to surge past even Walt ...

Reddit will verify if some users are human, but won't cross reference their ID with their Reddit account. Credit: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images Reddit CEO Steve Huffman caused a stir when ...

The MCP Dev Summit featured more than 50 sponsors offering MCP and related agentic AI products for the enterprise.

Human verification ‘will be rare and will not apply to most users,’ according to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman. Human verification ‘will be rare and will not apply to most users,’ according to Reddit CEO ...

The buzz at the recent MCP Dev Summit shows they are off to a fast start, but significant challenges remain for enterprise ...

Modern fraud attacks look like a relay race where different tools and actors handle each stage of the journey from signup to cash-out. When you only inspect one signal at a time, such as IP or email, ...

Meta claims social media addiction isn’t real. Juries disagree Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor for the Guardian. I’m hoping futilely for warm spring ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

Behind the scenes at Wikipedia, some editors were alarmed recently when they saw a flurry of edits and new articles by a contributor known as TomWikiAssist. It turned out that Tom was a bot and was ...