Advocates to Google CEO: Stop YouTube AI slop from harming kids
Kids are consuming a lot of AI slop. And child safety advocates are getting worried. In a letter sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neil Mohan, a...
Tinder’s fake ‘height verification’ is now a real feature on another app
An April Fool's joke from Tinder in 2019 is now real.Seven years ago, Tinder joked that it was adding height verification to its app. Now, in 2026, the matchmaking app...
SpaceX files for record $75 billion IPO as conflicts of interest mount
SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares to the public, according to multiple sources familiar with the registration, setting the stage for what...
Instagram reportedly deletes Bellesa account with 700K followers
The sex toy shop Bellesa Boutique said today that Instagram "permanently deleted" its account for using the word "clitoris."Bellesa Boutique offers sex toys for any gender, from vibrators to cuffs....
Geely will stop building factories and use Volvo’s plants instead
Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who bought Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has arrived at a conclusion that many...
You can now change your Gmail username. Here’s how to do it.
Google first unveiled Gmail to the public on April 1, 2004. Now, 22 years later, Google is finally letting some Gmail users change their account's username while retaining everything else...
OpenAI partners with Smartly to bring conversational ads to ChatGPT
Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the...
KitKat heist update: This tracker lets you check if a KitKat was stolen
The problem with announcing any kind of news on April 1 is that absolutely nobody will believe you.Case in point: On Wednesday morning, KitKat announced that customers could use a...
Over 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan in mass fleet failure
On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze,...
Dunkin’ is giving away over a million coffees for free today — how to claim yours on April Fools’ Day
April Fools' Day is a minefield of fake announcements and pranks, but Dunkin’ is offering some much-needed digital sincerity (and generosity) this year.For the second year in a row, Dunkin’...