Sweeping surveillance, now found in doorbells, cars and a vast network of vehicle-tracking cameras, did eventually help track down the whereabouts of Claudio Neves Valente, the 48-year-old former Brown graduate student investigators believe was responsible for the Dec. 13 shooting and another killing two days later of an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Reddit is suing the Australian government over its newly enacted social media ban, which prevents children aged 16 and younger from accessing most social media platforms. Reddit argued that the ban impinges on the right to free political discourse implied by the country's constitution, according to a Reuters report. In essence, blocking the youths from Reddit would block their freedom of speech, the company said. Reddit also argued that it was not, primarily speaking, a social media site, but rather a place for exchanging information and ideas.
We'll start predicting whether users in Australia may be under 16 and will ask them to verify they're old enough to use Reddit, the site said. We'll do this through a new privacy-preserving model designed to better help us protect young users from both holding accounts and accessing adult content before they're old enough. If you're predicted to be under 16, you'll have an opportunity to appeal and verify your age.
Reddit has moved to pull the plug on advertising for its popular conspiracy theory page, in which members engage in discussions around 'unsolved mysteries', after adding the popular section to its 'no ads list'. The decision was prompted after a gunman opened fire in a pizza restaurant named on the subreddit as part of a false conspiracy story propagated - which contended that the Washington DC pizza restaurant was the hub of a child sex ring operated by former Hilary Clinton chairman John Podesta.
From keeping your purse off the floor to skipping chicken on New Year's Day, these family superstitions didn't fade - they stuck. Call them cultural traditions, old wives' tales, or just "I'm not risking it." They promise good luck, ward off "the devil," and trace how beliefs travel from grandparents to Gen Z'ers. As bizarre as some of them sound, we keep them for the same reason we keep family recipes: they were handed down with love, warnings, and a little drama.
According to a police document seen by BBC News, the man - who is not named in the document - shared 347 clips of nude scenes on the Reddit group he moderated, which were then viewed 4.2 million times. The Danish police say he has been given a seven month suspended sentence for copyright infringement. Experts say the man was prosecuted under a rarely-used clause in Danish copyright law.
"Sam had just helped us raise a round of funding," Ohanian said on the podcast, recounting details of Reddit's $50 million Series B investment round it announced in 2014. In 2015, Altman cofounded OpenAI as a nonprofit. Between 2015 and 2016, Ohanian said, Altman had begun asking "to basically aggressively scrape Reddit." A debate ensued between Ohanian and Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman (who still serves as the now-public company's CEO). "Sam is a very smart guy, incredibly cunning," Ohanian said.
And now, Reddit's redesigned its audience setup process, in order to make campaign creation "more intuitive and streamlined." As part of this update, automated targeting can now be used with custom audiences. This changes the logic between custom audiences and other audience suggestions from an AND to an OR relationship. Similarly, demographic settings such as gender will also follow an OR relationship when automated targeting is used.
A Toronto children's hospital was flooded this week with a surprise surge of thousands of dollars in donations. The unlikely source? Dodgers fans. The Dodgers the Toronto Blue Jays in a monumental World Series win last week, giving the Boys in Blue back-to-back titles. After such an upset, a rivalry between the cities seems natural. But Dodgers fans are making a widespread effort to prove just the opposite.
Unlike previous years, they're not impulse buying - 79% of Americans plan to research more before purchasing, comparing products, reading reviews, and seeking genuine recommendations from real people. In the days leading up to Prime Day, Reddit communities were buzzing with shopping strategies, deal comparisons, and wish lists. During the event itself, views of Prime Day conversations exploded - skyrocketing more than 150x and peaking on day two as Redditors shared their best finds in real time.
Reddit has announced its latest performance update, with the platform that's become a key inlet for AI chatbots adding more users in Q3, while also boosting its overall revenue intake by a massive 68% year-over-year. First off, on users. Reddit added 5.6 million more daily active users over Q2, taking it to "People come here to find trusted perspectives, to participate in communities that share their interests-no matter how niche or mainstream - and increasingly, to engage directly with brands, institutions, and publishers."
Investors are now asking whether the July blowout marks the start of a structural inflection or a one-time surge ahead of the holiday ad cycle. The company's next phase depends on maintaining ad performance gains, scaling its new search experience, and sustaining international adoption. Management has described this period as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" for Reddit to redefine how human conversations power both advertising and AI ecosystems.
Reddit this week filed suit against Perplexity and three other companies - Oxylabs UAB, AWM Proxy, and Serp Api - for allegedly engaging in so-called AI scraping without authorization. According to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, the four companies collected millions of posts on Reddit with the aim of monetizing them. Scrapers bypass technical protections to steal data that can then be sold to clients who want the material for AI training.
They are natural, organic conversations that are happening between real people about, you know, what's the right pair of running shoes to get, or, what restaurant are you going to, or whatever. It's a really unique place, because the most engaged audiences are already on Reddit talking about your business and your brands. So for comms people, that's a tailor-made opportunity.
As this co-dependence became outwardly obvious, another aspect of their relationship - this one more formal - was being negotiated in private. Google didn't just need Reddit to fill out its search product. It needed Reddit to train its AI models and to provide those models with fresh material to retrieve, summarize, and synthesize once they were deployed in products.
"Member counts don't tell the whole story. In most cases, Redditors don't need to be a member of a community to post or comment, which means member totals have never fully reflected true engagement," Reddit said in its announcement. "By emphasizing active participation over passive membership, we're continuing to highlight what makes Reddit unique: real people engaging in real conversations."
Jim Cramer has been on TV for two decades, and to his fans, he's their high-energy coach who turns financial jargon into valuable information. And he does it in an entertaining fashion, while taking on regular calls from his viewers. No one else does that at his scale. To his critics, he is a living bullhorn who sometimes mistakes volume for conviction and turns stock picking into theater.
Reddit has charged Anthropic with training its AI, Claude, on user posts without consent, highlighting a shift towards monetizing access to digital content.
