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Archives for October 2026

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Threads is getting a foldable-optimized layout for the iPhone Duo.

“Tomorrow we’re bringing a new Threads layout to the foldable on iOS, with more of the conversation in view,” says Christopher Clare, Threads’ head of design. Sounds like things are getting better for Android foldables, too: “We’ve also been improving the Android experience, refining buttons and other elements so they fit the wider screen rather than simply stretching the experience.”

Clare also laid out a few other design tweaks, like links “in a new blue.”

Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares

Yes, of course there are pay package incentives in play for Musk. But that’s not all.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Republican politicians have embraced anti-Indian racism — and it’s costing them votes

Some Indian American conservatives say bigotry against their community has driven them away from the party they once supported.

Gaby Del Valle
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Rhode Island is suing Meta for turning a blind eye to scam ads.

The state’s Attorney General Peter Neronha filed the suit in Providence Superior Court, accusing Meta of making billions in profits from scam ads, while simultaneously telling users it was working hard to protect them. The suit cites reporting on leaked Meta documents from Reuters that said:

… it was earning ​far more from high-risk scam ads than it expected to pay in fines for allowing them.

According to those documents, Meta displays around 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads to users every day, and earned roughly ​10% of its 2024 revenue from fraudulent e-commerce, dubious health products and other banned marketing.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Larry and David Ellison got $1 billion from Elon Musk for their Warner Bros. takeover.

Semafor reports that, along with other investors like board member Laurene Powell Jobs, “Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to people familiar with the matter, providing a much needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price.