Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual smartphone (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/android-is-fighting-phone-scams…
Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technology/meta-safety-features-teenage…
“…this is the first AI film to demonstrate that AI can now sustain character consistency, world coherence, and narrative arc across a complete feature,” is roughly equivalent to “we made a car that actually has wheels and can take you somewhere.”
And it wasn’t in the festival, it just screening in the same town.
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Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technology/meta-safety-features-teenage…
Plex adds new social features, including Discussions, a community forum with a hybrid AI and human moderation system, and a Match Score to suggest content (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/03/plex-launches-new-social-fea…
X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/x-caters-to-creators-with-new-react-…
X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/x-caters-to-creators-with-new-react-…