Threads is testing a new way for users to manipulate their own recommendation algorithm. The feature, aptly called "Dear algo," allows users to post a message to the algorithm with the note "dear algo ...

The Pentagon’s research and engineering enterprise is entering one of its most decisive restructuring periods in more than a decade. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil ...

Lizzy Lawrence leads STAT’s coverage of the Food and Drug Administration. She was previously a medical devices reporter. You can reach Lizzy on Signal at lizzylaw.53. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug ...

Meta today announced that the Threads social network is gaining support for disappearing posts. "Ghost posts" are Threads posts that will be automatically archived after a 24-hour period. Replies to ...

If you use Threads, you’ve probably seen topic tags, which users can add to posts when they want to reach more people interested in that same subject. Today, Meta is combining topic tags with its ...

President Donald Trump displays an executive order on artificial intelligence he signed at the "Winning the AI Race" AI Summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2025.

Michael Duffy, acting federal chief information security, spoke during a fireside chat at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington Sept. 9, 2025. He outlined his priorities for the CISO ...

Update, Sep 4: The feature is now live. Find the new details below. While Threads already allows up to 500 characters per post (which is more than enough for casual users used to the microblogging ...

Meta’s Threads is on a roll. The social networking app is now home to more than 400 million monthly active users, Meta shared with Fast Company on Tuesday. That’s 50 million more than just a few ...

STREAMING ON PEACOCK: (Left to right) Councilors Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Candace Avalos, Mitch Green, Jamie Dunphy and Sameer Kanal. (Jake Nelson) Seven months into the city’s new form ...

The FDA has begun accepting applications for a priority pathway designed to slash review times to between one and two months, giving developers of medicines that align with U.S. national health ...

Meta-owned social network Threads was today updated with support for direct messages, a feature that Meta has been testing during June. This is the first time the two-year-old social network has ...