Com o Threads, é possível conversar com os milhões de usuários que utilizam a rede social diariamente para falar sobre os mais diversos assuntos.
A Meta introduziu, há um tempo, uma função dedicada para quem curte escrever bastante: a possibilidade de realizar uma publicação com até 10.000 caracteres — inclusive com ferramentas de formatação de texto, como negrito, itálico e tachado, por exemplo.
Abra o app ou o site do Threads e toque/clique no ícone de “+” ou “Nova thread“.
Selecione o ícone representado por uma folha de papel (no iPhone, é preciso tocar primeiramente no botão com três pontinhos para que ele apareça).
Digite ou anexe o texto desejado no campo e use as ferramentas de formatação (negrito, itálico, sublinhado, tachado e destaque com cor) na parte inferior, se assim desejar.
Quando quiser publicar o texto, toque/clique em “Concluir”.
Além de compartilhar uma página da web usando um link normal, o navegador Mozilla Firefox também permite enviar um endereço da web de outra forma.
Mais precisamente, trata-se da geração de um código QR (QR code) — que pode, posteriormente, ser lido a partir de qualquer câmera ou compartilhado em uma postagem, por exemplo.
A adição desses recursos na versão web dispensa a obrigatoriedade da instalação do app para macOS caso você queira atender a uma ligação fora do iPhone, funcionando nas conversas em grupo e individuais.
WhatsApp announces new calling features including web calls!
O WhatsApp anuncia novos recursos de chamadas, incluindo chamadas na web!
O WhatsApp está lançando chamadas na web, transferências de chamadas, uma sala de espera, vídeo QuickHD e supressão de ruído para chamadas.
As chamadas na versão web são compatíveis com o compartilhamento de tela, reações durante chamadas, histórico de ligações, favoritos e a criptografia de ponta a ponta. Já o recurso de transferência de chamada permite mover uma ligação em andamento entre diferentes dispositivos sem interromper a conversa.
O WhatsApp também introduziu uma sala de espera para chamadas em grupo iniciadas por meio de um link, permitindo que quem organizou a chamada aprove quem ingressará na ligação.
Já em termos de qualidade da chamada, o WhatsApp destacou a inclusão do QuickHD, recurso destinado a alta definição de vídeo logo nos primeiros segundos de uma chamada, enquanto a supressão de ruído reduz qualquer som ambiente que não seja a voz do usuário, que ganha destaque mesmo em espaços barulhentos. A supressão de ruído pode ser desativada a qualquer momento, embora ambos os recursos funcionem de maneira automática, sem configuração inicial.
Segundo a Meta, a implementação da novidade ocorrerá de maneira gradual, estando disponível “em breve” para toda a base instalada do WhatsApp.
Contagem de visualizações em canais
Para os administradores de canais, o WhatsApp começou a liberar a contagem privada de visualizações na beta do seu app para iOS e Android.
De acordo com o WABetaInfo, a informação é exibida no próprio balão de mensagem, e é restrita ao administrador do canal.
WhatsApp is rolling out private view counts for channel admins!
O WhatsApp está lançando contadores de visualizações privadas para administradores de canais!
O WhatsApp está introduzindo um novo recurso no iOS e Android que permite que administradores de canais vejam quantas pessoas visualizaram suas atualizações.
Restrito à versão beta no momento, o recurso deverá chegar em breve para os usuários de forma geral.
Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.
The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”
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Perhaps more alarming for old-school Redditors is that boat-botany’s post left the door open for Reddit retiring old.reddit.com.
New Reddit will not load anything more than the post itself without Javascript (JS).
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Cynically, it seems like Reddit discovered they can make scraping harder by making your browser load more and work more, which they had already done by rewriting a nice piece of HTML into a 5x more bloated mess of web components or whatever.
Thirty years is a long time -- and a great deal has changed since then -- but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your support through the years.
I think there used to be a bunch of sites like this, but EveryMac has endured, and it’s the one I’ve been using for long time. I asked proprietor Brock Kyle how he got started:
As you know, the Internet was different in the 90s. I was at least partially inspired by Guy Kawasaki’s evangelism and wanted to support what was at that time considered a decidedly “beleaguered” Apple Computer. Mac hardware was a topic that I was interested in and relatively experienced with -- or at least I thought so, I have learned a little bit more since then 🙃 -- and the site was simply my effort to contribute to the body of knowledge. I miss the ethos of those days.
Back in 1995 I worked on a project for MacUser magazine called the Mac Catalog, which was a FileMaker-based spec database much like EveryMac’s. I was the person who brought the Mac Catalog to the web for the first time, in fact!
I still feel like DF is a newcomer next to a site like EveryMac. 1996 for chrissakes. Steve Jobs wasn’t even back at Apple yet. What a great run it’s been and continues to be for EveryMac.
Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, graphic cards, supported OS versions, price, color, storage, and expansion options. Also included is information on early Apple systems, Newton, Apple TV, Apple accessories, audio, displays, modems, printers, scanners, storage, Wi-Fi products, Mac pro apps, and operating systems.
The social media company Meta and the video streaming service YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress, a jury found on Wednesday, a landmark decision that could open social media companies to more lawsuits over users’ well-being.
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Citing features like infinite scroll and algorithmic recommendations, K.G.M. sued Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, and Google’s YouTube, claiming they led to anxiety and depression.
For its part, the Wall Street Journal editorial board is standing up for beleaguered social media companies in an editorial today criticizing everything about these verdicts, including this specific means of liability, which it calls a “dodge” around Section 230.
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Product design, though, is a different question. It would be a mistake, I think, to read Section 230 as a blanket allowance for any way platforms wish to use or display users’ posts. (Update: In part, that is because it is a free speech question.) From my entirely layman perspective, it has never struck me as entirely reasonable that the recommendations systems of these platforms should have no duty or expectation of care.
To me, a non-lawyer, much of the actual text of the ruling (PDF) explaining why this lawsuit was not immediately turfed on Section 230 grounds seems pretty reasonable. For example, the judge says “[u]nder the default settings, Meta enables approximately forty types of notifications” for the Instagram app, which the government alleges “is designed to overwhelm young users and compel them repeatedly to reopen Instagram”. We can argue whether this is a meaningful thing for a government to police or if it is just another example of Meta resorting to tacky growth-hacking techniques instead of trusting their product is sufficiently compelling on its own. (Most days when I open Instagram in my browser, it puts a red badge over the notifications tab and suggests I have one new follower. I do not; I never have. It lies to me every time, presumably because it knows most people, including me, will usually click on that, thereby increasing a number on a dashboard somewhere.)
couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap titled “Seven Lines of Evidence Against Social Media,” treating recent developments — including the social media addiction verdicts against Meta that most people are misunderstanding — as vindication of his thesis.
Indeed, the research repeatedly suggests that for the very small number of kids who are facing mental health problems and overrelying on social media in response, the answer is a targeted intervention to help those individuals — not a broad “ban kids from social media” program.
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been reintroduced into Congress. If passed into law, this bill could impose some of the most significant legislative changes that the internet has seen in the U.S. since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998.
As it currently stands, KOSA would be able to hold social media platforms legally accountable if it’s proven that these companies aren’t doing enough to protect minors from harm. The bill includes a long list of possible harms, such as eating disorders, sexual exploitation, substance abuse, and suicide. Though it overwhelmingly passed through the Senate last year, the bill was stifled in the House.
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“Apple is pleased to offer our support for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). Everyone has a part to play in keeping kids safe online, and we believe [this] legislation will have a meaningful impact on children’s online safety,” Timothy Powderly, Apple’s senior director of Government Affairs, said in a statement.
The App Store Accountability Act is based on model legislation written by the Digital Childhood Alliance. The lobbying group also publishes marketing pieces, including one (PDF) that calls Apple’s age verification frameworks “ineffective”. Specifically, it points to the lack of parental consent required “for kids to enter into complex contracts”, with “no way to verify that parental consent has been obtained”.
Since the arrival of so-called ‘social media’ the central tenet of never giving out your personal information which was front and center during the 1990s and 2000s got quite literally flipped around. Suddenly we had massive corporations practically begging you to give every last scrap of your personal information, every intimate detail of your daily life and with it every last second of your attention span.
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The upshot of this reversal is that instead of a mostly comfortable anonymous experience, suddenly every second that you’re awake has been turned into the equivalent of a schoolyard during recess, the watercooler banter at the office and similar social interactions.
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This raises many questions, such as whether ‘social media’ and the FOMO it introduces is a legitimate addiction, and whether we shouldn’t make being online more anonymous rather than enforce a rather dystopian ‘real name’ policy onto the populace.
Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package includes a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, combined with a collection of other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Instead of debating any of these proposals on their merits, lawmakers are attempting to move them all at once under an ultra-expedited process.
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Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the ability of people of all ages to use the internet without revealing sensitive data.
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Several provisions of the bill create new rules around direct messages, disappearing or “ephemeral” messages, and AI chat services.
The bill includes language stating that certain KOSA requirements should not be construed to override strong encryption. But the protection is incomplete. The carve-out applies to certain features and messaging controls, but doesn’t apply to KOSA’s separate requirement that platforms “address” a list of harms to minors.
The British government will introduce a ban on social media access for all users under 16 years of age, set to take effect in 2027.
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The plan goes further than a similar ban introduced in Australia. It will cover major platforms Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. An exhaustive list has not yet been released, but Starmer said the rules will apply to services “whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material.”
Messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal are not covered by the ban, and most social media platforms already require children to be over 13 to create an account and use their services.
So-called AI ‘romantic companion’ chatbots – designed to simulate sexual relationships or roleplay with users – will have to enforce a minimum age of 18 and the government will also be looking in more detail at overnight curfews and breaks in infinite scrolling for under-18s, with more detail coming in July.
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The government said it will “learn the lessons” from Australia’s experience by introducing more highly effective age assurance measures to support compliance, making it far harder for children to bypass safeguards.
In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they’re over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan, the same checks that adult sites serving UK visitors have implemented since July 2025 under the Online Safety Act.
Long-standing accounts are largely exempt, but signing up fresh now triggers verification, effectively ending anonymous account creation in the UK.
New VPN rules are set to be issued by the Labour Party government as part of the under-16 social media ban. The government has not revealed any plans to regulate them, but ministers have said details about action alongside the social media ban, including regarding VPN use, will come in July.
Young people will not simply be protected from being contacted by adults or endlessly scrolling—they’ll also lose access to educational videos on YouTube, local events on Facebook, and potentially cut off from distant friends and family.
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The provision also requires internet service providers to limit the time kids spend online, and has rules about who can contact them online. These extreme rules will take decisions about using technology away from families and put them in the hands of government regulators.
The problem is, there’s no such thing as “age verification” for the internet. What we call “age verification” is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry’s commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia[…]
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Any attempt to save kids from online harms should start with saving kids from online surveillance, but that’s the opposite of what we’re doing today. After decades of failing to pass and enforce privacy controls for the internet, those same governments are breaking all land-speed records to pass “age verification” laws that make privacy illegal[…]
Lots of US states, European countries, and Australia have introduced “age verification” regulations. They present it as the classic “save the children” talking point, but it’s really just a precursor to attribution of speech, particularly attributing your words to your real identity.
Azdoufal is the security researcher who used Claude Code to help discover that every DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaner and a million baby monitors and security cameras were embarrassingly easy to hack. This time, he says he discovered over 985,000 photo IDs sitting on the public internet for any half-decent hacker to steal.
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Traditionally, you’d need to provide a photo ID every time you wanted to get into a club. But with the verification system, the receptionist can pull up your stored identity documents and check if your face matches. There’s also an optional app called PuffPal that lets clubs scan a QR code for faster entry.
But when Azdoufal decompiled that PuffPal app, he explains in his report, he discovered that Nefos had no meaningful level of security.
I find it incredible that the UK government is about to create a cliff edge where teens will simultaneously be able to access social media and vote, having had no experience of the latter and with scant understanding of how algorithms work.
There are almost no truly public spaces on the internet. Everywhere we congregate is privately owned, even if it operates as a public space. But we seem somehow content to accept them as fiefdoms in their own right, beyond the reach of government. Instead of demanding that they function as safe and pleasant public spaces for all of us, we are asking our governments just to ban teenagers from them.
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It is one thing to ban our children from one park when there are others nearby. It is quite another to ban them from every public space when there are no others on offer.
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I am skeptical as to whether social media is as dangerous as some of its critics say. I am even more skeptical as to whether it is particularly dangerous to teens and young people. […] The central facet of my argument in this post is that wherever you land on the matters of the harms of social media, a ban for teenagers is the wrong response. If the harms are overstated, the policy is unnecessary. If they are not, it is an abdication.
Om Malik (@Om), the journalist, GigaOm founder, photographer and True Ventures partner whose work tracked the commercial internet from dial-up optimism to AI saturation, died on June 24 at Stanford Hospital after what his family described as a long health journey with his heart, according to a post on On my Om. He was 59.
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That exchange was small. It was also the whole system in miniature. A founder could reach the editor directly. The editor was awake. The story was not filtered through a communications department, a conference stage or a banked embargo calendar. Malik helped build that operating system for Silicon Valley media: fast, conversational, porous, technically literate and dangerously close to the companies it covered.
Malik was not just one of the people who covered Silicon Valley. He became one of the people Silicon Valley used to understand itself. That was the gift and the complication of his career. He was a reporter, then a founder, then a venture investor, and he never entirely gave up any of those identities. He could spot a network shift early because he had spent decades watching pipes, protocols, business models and human ego interact at close range. He could also be too close to the machine he covered, a tension that defined the blog era he helped build.
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On my Om, became less about scoops and more about judgment. He wrote about technology, photography, business cycles, health, memory and the human cost of living inside the network. He preferred the long arc to the launch post.
We were mutual readers for many years, and I respected him as a thoughtful writer, but I didn’t know him well. He always seemed like a kind soul, and reading the many comments about his passing that really comes across. When he announced the break recently, I hoped he was off to take some more wonderfulphotos.
Through it all, Om Malik was just a kind, warm, funny (af), true, and honest friend who helped me get to the good times and ride out the bad. He’d been through a lot and wasn’t afraid to tell you all about it. He was a rare breed indeed in many ways, but having the confidence to show kindness and vulnerability in the world of venture capital is something that should be studied.
Given that I have been writing three decades, including eighteen-plus years a blogger, I am hardly surprised that I am repeatedly asked: how should I write? And my answer is always the same — write like a human.
Bringing Swift Package Index to Apple allows us to build on its strong foundations while preserving its vision and expertise. Together, we’re building a comprehensive package registry to serve the Swift community’s evolving needs.
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Swift Package Index will continue to operate as it does today. You can continue to rely on it to discover packages, check compatibility, and explore documentation. As we embark on this new phase, our goal is to accelerate development and introduce new features that make discovering and evaluating packages even better.
Grande parte dos vídeos que consumimos hoje vai muito além do entretenimento. Tutoriais técnicos, palestras públicas, demonstrações de produtos, treinamentos corporativos, webinars, apresentações de eventos e materiais educativos fazem parte da rotina de estudantes, profissionais e empreendedores.
Em muitos momentos, ter acesso a esse conteúdo mesmo sem conexão com a internet pode fazer toda a diferença. Mas surge uma dúvida comum: vale mais a pena utilizar uma ferramenta que funciona diretamente no navegador ou um aplicativo dedicado?
A resposta depende principalmente da forma como cada pessoa utiliza seus dispositivos e organiza seu fluxo de trabalho.
Quando uma ferramenta baseada no navegador faz mais sentido
As soluções que funcionam diretamente no navegador conquistaram muitos usuários por eliminarem uma etapa importante: a instalação.
Em poucos segundos, é possível abrir a ferramenta, utilizar seus recursos e continuar trabalhando, independentemente do computador ou do dispositivo utilizado.
Essa praticidade costuma ser especialmente útil para quem precisa acessar conteúdos em diferentes dispositivos sem depender da instalação de programas.
Acompanhar palestras e conferências online;
Consultar tutoriais técnicos durante o trabalho;
Revisar treinamentos profissionais;
Utilizar computadores compartilhados;
Alternar frequentemente entre computador, tablet e smartphone.
Nesses casos, um baixador de vídeos do YouTube baseado no navegador permite abrir a ferramenta rapidamente e acessar conteúdos públicos de forma simples, independentemente do sistema operacional utilizado.
Outro benefício importante é a compatibilidade. Como o acesso acontece pelo navegador, a experiência permanece semelhante em diferentes sistemas operacionais, facilitando o uso em qualquer dispositivo.
Quando um aplicativo pode ser a melhor escolha
Embora as ferramentas baseadas no navegador sejam extremamente práticas, existem situações em que um aplicativo dedicado oferece uma experiência diferente.
Usuários que acessam frequentemente os mesmos materiais, organizam conteúdos por categorias ou preferem manter tudo disponível em um único ambiente costumam valorizar recursos adicionais de organização e gerenciamento.
Nesse contexto, soluções como a Muka representam uma alternativa interessante para quem prefere utilizar um aplicativo em vez do navegador. Dependendo da rotina de cada pessoa, esse tipo de abordagem pode tornar o acesso aos conteúdos mais conveniente.
Além disso, aplicativos costumam facilitar a organização de arquivos locais e oferecer acesso rápido aos materiais utilizados com maior frequência.
Não existe uma solução única
Na prática, o navegador e o aplicativo resolvem necessidades diferentes.
Imagine alguns exemplos:
Um estudante universitário utiliza o computador da biblioteca para revisar uma palestra antes de uma prova.
Um empresário salva uma apresentação sobre marketing digital para consultar durante uma viagem.
Um técnico acompanha demonstrações de equipamentos enquanto trabalha em locais onde a conexão nem sempre é estável.
Outro profissional prefere manter seus materiais organizados em um aplicativo para encontrá-los rapidamente sempre que necessário.
Todos possuem objetivos semelhantes, mas desenvolvem hábitos diferentes para acessar seus conteúdos de referência.
O fator mais importante é a praticidade
Ao escolher uma solução, muitas pessoas concentram a atenção apenas nas funcionalidades. Entretanto, a facilidade de acesso costuma ser igualmente importante.
Se o objetivo é consultar rapidamente um material de referência, quanto menos etapas existirem entre o usuário e o conteúdo, melhor será a experiência.
Por isso, ferramentas baseadas no navegador continuam sendo uma excelente opção para quem valoriza simplicidade e acesso imediato, enquanto aplicativos podem oferecer uma experiência mais organizada para quem consulta os mesmos conteúdos com frequência.
Conclusão
O crescimento dos conteúdos digitais mudou a forma como aprendemos, trabalhamos e compartilhamos conhecimento. Palestras, treinamentos, demonstrações técnicas, apresentações profissionais e outros materiais de referência tornaram-se recursos importantes para milhões de pessoas.
Escolher entre uma ferramenta baseada no navegador ou um aplicativo dedicado não significa decidir qual tecnologia é superior, mas identificar qual delas se adapta melhor ao seu dia a dia.
Quando a solução acompanha a maneira como utilizamos nossos dispositivos, acessar conteúdos importantes offline torna-se um processo mais simples, eficiente e conveniente.
Jio Platforms, which owns India’s largest telco, is looking to lease broadband capacity from satellite constellations to jumpstart its own sovereign LEO network in the country.
À l’occasion de VivaTech 2026, OVHcloud lève le voile sur sa Quantum Platform, une offre de quantum-as-a-service pour appréhender le quantique avant sa montée en puissance. À travers un écosystème de start-up européennes, le groupe entend structurer une filière souveraine. Fanny Bouton,...
I launched Firefox this morning to find some new blocks on my home page. The widgets that are currently rolling out add sports scores, time zones, a focus timer, and a checklist, which are already some of my favorite new Firefox features in years. I usually have Focus Friend open on my phone when I need a focus timer, and I use Google Tasks for my checklists. Now I can check in with similar tools every time I open a new Firefox tab instead.
My phone's homescreen is full of useful widgets, so it's a nice addition to have the timer and checklist pop up on my browser - they add some extra functionality and blend in tools I was already using el …
Um estudo destaca que, na era da inteligência artificial, nunca foi tão fácil criar uma aplicação. O problema está em conseguir destacar-se perante a saturação da oferta.
Le Premier ministre britannique Keir Starmer veut interdire l'accès aux réseaux sociaux aux moins de 16 ans et renforcer le contrôle des plateformes de jeux vidéo et de diffusion en direct. Présentée comme l'une des régulations les plus ambitieuses au monde, la mesure pourrait entrer en vigueur au printemps 2027.
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