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Discord’s Family Center Update Now Lets Parents Monitor Weekly Purchases
Discord has upgraded its Family Center, now allowing parents to view teens' weekly purchases—including Discord Shop items and Nitro subscriptions—alongside time spent on voice/video calls and the top five interacted users and servers. The update also introduces guardian‑only controls for direct messaging, content filtering, and data‑privacy settings such as personalized ads. Additionally, when teens report content, they can opt to notify their parents, though the specific content remains undisclosed. The enhancements build on the 2023 Family Center dashboard and align with broader industry moves to tighten teen safety on social platforms.
Reddit CEO Says Chatbots Are Not a Traffic Driver
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told analysts that AI chatbots are not a major traffic driver for the platform, with Google search and direct visits still accounting for roughly half of its traffic each. The company posted a strong Q3 2025, reporting...
Workout App Ladder Launches Nutrition-Tracking Experience
Strength-training app Ladder has launched Ladder Nutrition, a built-in calorie and macronutrient tracker that lets users log food via photo, barcode scan, text or voice and includes a protein mode, streaks and gamified reminders. The tool uses multiple AI models...
What’s Updog? Datadog’s New Tool Tells You Which Apps Are Down
Datadog launched Updog, a free web dashboard that shows real‑time status of dozens of major SaaS and cloud providers (AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Slack, etc.) and is positioned as a lightweight complement to its paid monitoring tools. Datadog says Updog uses...
UK Designates Apple and Google as Having ‘Strategic Market Status,’ Opening Door for More Regulation
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority has designated Apple and Google as having “strategic market status” for their mobile platforms — covering operating systems, app stores, browsers and browser engines — enabling targeted regulatory interventions to boost competition. After investigations...
Automattic CEO Calls Tumblr His ‘Biggest Failure’ so Far
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called the company’s acquisition of Tumblr his “biggest failure,” saying a planned migration of Tumblr’s more than 500 million blogs to the WordPress back end has been paused because the platform is unprofitable and too...
Strava Eyes IPO as Gen Z Trades Dating Apps for Running Clubs
Strava, the 16-year-old fitness tracking app, is gearing up to go public, the Financial Times reports. CEO Michael Martin told the FT that the San Francisco company plans to list “at some point,” eyeing capital for more acquisitions. The company,...