Image: Bluesky Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge. The “majority” of the new users on the decentralized social network are from the US, Wang says. The app is currently the number two free social networking app in the US App Store, only trailing Meta’s Threads. People posting on Threads, on the other hand, have raised complaints about engagement bait, moderation issues, and, as of late, misinformation, reports Taylor Lorenz. And like our very own Tom Warren, I’ve come to dislike the algorithmic “For You” feed that you can’t permanently escape, and it certainly seems like we’re not alone in that opinion. But the Instagram-bootstrapped... Continue reading…

Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images The New York Times’ tech employees, who are behind Wordle and Connections among other games and features, will go back to work on Tuesday following a weeklong strike. In a statement published on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild said union members will “march into the office together in the morning as a symbol of what’s to come for The Times.” The Tech Guild represents the over 600 workers who manage technology across the digital paper. Union members went on strike the day before the US election, raising concerns about whether the NYT’s vote-tracking tech, like the Needle, would hold up on Election Day. The union and the NYT will continue negotiating on a contract. “The systems and digital products that worked over the election did... Continue reading…

Surfers could be protected from future shark attacks following new discoveries about how to trick sharks' visual systems made by Professor Nathan Hart, head of Macquarie University's Neurobiology Lab, Dr. Laura Ryan and colleagues.

The liberal hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" blamed Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump on the Democratic Party's fixation with identity politics, proclaiming Monday that "woke is broke."

The assault on Israeli fans after a soccer game in Amsterdam last week by hordes of young people was planned on messaging apps just hours before the game, according to Dutch authorities, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Tom Homan, the newly appointed "border czar" under President-elect Donald Trump, announced plans to revive workplace immigration raids, sparking immediate concern from immigration advocates, The Hill reported.

Democrats fearing Republicans gaining full control of the federal government, an increasing likelihood given the status of pending House races, are calculating ways they can prevent the GOP from undoing many of the gains made under President Joe Biden.

*Guest writer Kevin Peters contributed to this article. Instead of enjoying Veterans Day celebrating with his family, decorated combat war veteran Mitchell Bosch is spending today driving to Washington,…

Yesterday a person on X accused JK Rowling of being not only "far right" but borderline "neo-Nazi" because of her views on trans issues. Of course this sort of thing is nothing new, people on the far…

Republican David Schweikert has once again pulled off a major victory in the 1st Congressional District of Arizona, clinching his eighth term in the House of Representatives. He beat out Democratic challenger…