Wes Davis

It’s not just that you’re more likely to come across cowboy boots in those places. They’re also increasingly home to technology workers as demand for their skills comes from more companies in more industries in more cities.

X (formerly Twitter) will let you replace the username in a post’s URL with... really, whatever you want, and it will still go to the original post. It’s been that way since at least 2019.

A story in Wired considers the use of FTC consent decrees for regulating the personal data handling of companies like Google and Meta — and whether they’re still effective, more than 10 years later.

HughesNet announced its rural internet service now has up to 100Mbps downloads and 5Mbps uploads. Plans range from $74.99 to $109.99 and throttle once you hit 100GB or 200GB, depending on the plan. As PCMag noted, the best HughesNet offered before was an unthinkable 50Mbps down on a $149.99 plan.

If you saw weirdness with any of those — including in-app or web payments for Apple Pay or transaction notifications in Cash — between 6:15AM ET / 5:15AM CT and 6:49AM ET / 6:49AM CT today, Apple says it’s resolved the issues. As MacRumors notes, Apple didn’t say how many are affected.

ProPublica and Columbia University identified over 2,200 false or misleading posts from more than 1,300 verified accounts in the month following the Israel-Hamas war’s beginning, garnering half a billion impressions.

In the mobile YouTube app, when you’re making YouTube Short from one of your own videos, you’ll now see layout options for different kinds of split-screen videos, with the ability to pan and zoom on specific parts of the screen.