Bluesky is serving social media tools that X and Instagram should learn from

Bluesky just crossed 40 million users and is rolling out new tools to shape healthier conversations — including a “dislike” beta, improved toxicity filters, and smarter reply controls that encourage ...

What is Skylight? Here’s what you need to know about the TikTok alternative

Skylight is a baby in the social media world. But like Bluesky, it could grow up fast. Here's what to know about the TikTok alternative.

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...

Wikipedia says AI answers are starting to take a bite. There are reasons to be worried.

Wikipedia's traffic is down — but there's reason to be hopeful for its future, even with Elon Musk nipping at its heels with ...

What Wikipedia and Grokipedia are saying about each other

Elon Musk's new online encyclopedia aims to challenge Wikipedia, which he has accused of left-leaning bias. We used them to ...

Python Web Framework: Django Developers Increasingly Use HTMX and Alpine.js

The web framework for Python is already celebrating its 20th birthday. A new study shows which JavaScript libraries are most ...