Brainrot videos are specifically designed to confuse us. They can also be a financial bonanza for their creators.

Some news: The Vergecast is now a daily podcast! Starting today, we'll be posting every weekday, with even more gadgets and rankings and conversations and feelings and podcasts-within-podcasts. We're excited for all the ways this new schedule lets us tell new kinds of stories, experiment with new tech and new formats, and involve you even more in the show.

(The other immediate change to know about: We'll be publishing the show in the afternoons going forward, so we can include the day's biggest news in our 90 Seconds on The Verge segment. The goal is to always be live before 4PM ET. Often well before.)

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Musk did not admit wrongdoing.

Musk did not admit wrongdoing.

The company is encouraging accounts that frequently post Gen AI content to use the feature, but isn't requiring it.

The company is encouraging accounts that frequently post Gen AI content to use the feature, but isn't requiring it.

Malaysia's under-16 social media ban has taken effect.

Malaysia's under-16 social media ban has taken effect.

Malaysia's under-16 social media ban has taken effect.

The Kentucky school district that filed a social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and other companies is getting $27 million in settlement.

Kickstarter is going back to its previous rules around mature content after creators criticized the new policy it introduced last week.

Sen. Ed Markey is pressing TikTok’s new U.S. joint venture and Oracle to explain how they are protecting user data and limiting ByteDance’s influence.

Bereaved relatives say they were ignored by authorities as they searched for answers over suicide forums and kits

• Canadian man admits sending ‘suicide packets’ to hundreds of people around world

Monday would have been Aimee Walton’s 25th birthday. But in 2022, the lover of music and art from Southampton took her own life after being groomed by another user on an online forum that glorified and enabled suicide. On Friday, 3,500 miles away, the man who sold her a toxic substance pleaded guilty in a Canadian courtroom to his part in 14 other fatal poisonings.

Kenneth Law, 60, is linked to at least 131 deaths worldwide, after using a collection of digital storefronts to target vulnerable youth. Investigators in the province of Ontario say Law shipped more than 1,200 packages – many containing a toxic substance – from his local post office to people in more than 40 countries; the vast majority went to the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Social media isn't all that neutral when it comes to politics.

A criminal could be masquerading as a celebrity, web store or family member asking for your money. Detecting scams requires a new approach.

In this competitive market, gen Z has started to turn to untraditional ways to land a job – including dating apps

Sibusisiwe Khupe, 26, entered the job market once again in September after a wave of unexpected layoffs at London marketing agency Wieden+Kennedy.

She knew landing her next full-time role was not going to be easy. Young workers have been hit hard by the weakening UK job market as vacancies fall and unemployment climbs to a five-year high.

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A Mad Hatter and a giant rabbit sit around a table discussing an A.I. start-up. This is normal behavior around the Bay Area these days.