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Developer Maurice Kleine shipped the web app on Thursday. This has been shipped depending on how you view it either by the mememaking bounty or the troubles of your existence. Mockly can generate trusted images of fake conversations with apps like Imessage, Discord, Instagram, X, Tinder, WhatsApp and more. Tools like Mockly have been around since the dawn of instant messaging, but are generally not the most user-friendly apps. If you google “fake Imessage generator” you will need to guess what it is a website with three download buttons and an ad that may contain malware. Mockly makes yourself stand…

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YouTube has removed trend pages and removed trend Now lists in favor of category-specific charts, the company announced Thursday. With this change, YouTube now displays the most popular content in a specific category on the YouTube chart from a single comprehensive list of trending content. According to the platform, the update is better tailored to the way today's trending content was discovered, noting that when the trending page was launched in 2015, it was much easier to capture viral videos that everyone was talking about on a singular list. The new category-specific charts include trend music videos, weekly top podcast…

The departure of X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced on Wednesday, and the company that text-first social networking defined the company faced new competition. New data provided by App Intelligence Firm Sensor Tower shows that, compared to the previous year, Elon Musk-owned social networks have seen their daily active user base fall by around 10% as of the second quarter of 2025. X's user base is 65% larger than the threads in Meta and 10 times larger than its next biggest rival, Bluesky, but X's lasting victory in this space is not guaranteed. On mobile devices, it shows that threads are…

French authorities have arrested a professional Russian basketball player who has been accused of being a member of a ransomware gang, according to a newswire from the French Press. Daniil Kasatkin plays for MBA Moscow, part of the VTB United League, which is primarily made up of Russian clubs and one team from Belarus and Kazakhstan. Casatkin played temporarily for Pennsylvania during the 2018-2019 season. AFP reported that US authorities believe Casatokin Moonlight as a ransomware hacker. Casatkin was arrested at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on June 21st. Kasatkin's lawyer Frederic Belot told AFP that his client was…

Google said Thursday it was adding image-to-video generation capabilities to its VEO 3 AI video generator via the Gemini app. The company had already deployed the feature in an AI-powered video tool called Flow, which was launched at Google's I/O Developer Conference in May. After starting video generation with VEO 3 in May, Google made the feature available in over 150 countries last week. At the moment, only Google AI Ultra and Google AI Pro Plan users can generate videos with a limit of 3 creations per day without carrying over. Image to video generation using VEO 3 looks like…

UK officials confirmed Thursday that they arrested four individuals who allegedly committed a series of hacks earlier this year, targeting the UK retail sector, including Marks & Spencer, Harrods and the cooperative. The National Crime Bureau said that 20-year-old men, 19-year-old, two 19-year-old men, and a 17-year-old young man, have been arrested at locations across the UK due to suspected of hacking, horrifying mail, money laundering and participating in organized crime groups. The suspect was not named, but was taken into custody in connection with the hacking, the NCA said. Starting in April, hackers broke into the cooperatives, began stealing…

Around this time last year, cameo scored a significant low point. Its valuation fell by at least 90%, and the company's disastrous financial situation meant it was unable to pay a $600,000 fine from the FTC. Now, the company behind celebrity greeting apps is exploring new and new things for growth, although somewhat boring. On Thursday, Cameo announced the launch of Candl, a birthday planning app designed for unforgettable users who want to celebrate their friends' birthdays without being late for the party. Image credits: Baron App, Inc. Free downloadable in the App Store, Candl lets you sync birthdays from…

On Sunday, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey launched an open source chat app called Bitchat, pledged to provide “safe” and “private” messaging without a centralized infrastructure. Unlike traditional messaging apps that rely on the internet, this app relies on Bluetooth and end-to-end encryption. By being decentralized, Bitchat could become a secure app in a high-risk environment where the Internet is incapable of being monitored or accessed. According to Dorsey's white paper detailing app protocols and privacy mechanisms, Bitchat's system design “prioritizes” security. However, given that the app and its code have not been reviewed or tested for security…

Earlier this month, Adrian Holovaty, founder of Soundlice, a music teaching platform, solved the mystery that had been worrisome for several weeks. The strange images, which were obviously ChatGpt sessions, continued to be uploaded to the site. Once he solved it, he realized that ChatGpt had become one of his company's biggest hype men, but it was lying to people about what his app could do. Holovaty is best known as one of the creators of the open source Django project, a popular Python web development framework (although he retired from managing the project in 2014). In 2012 he launched…