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The most important thing to know about social media is this: Most people don’t post.

You know this. I know this. God knows this. I am going to limit my analysis to text-based sites because video sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram are not my ministry. This analysis may transfer in



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Apple is shipping jailbroken iPhones to third-party researchers who are part of its Security Research Device Program.
  • Images are circulating on social media of Apple's official jailbroken iPhones.
  • The Security Research Devices are shipped to professionals who try to find and report security bugs.
  • Third-party researchers who find new iOS vulnerabilities are eligible for



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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta announced its first-ever dividend in its earnings release Thursday.
  • Meta says it's going to start paying its first-ever dividend.
  • The company's earnings blew expectations out of the water on Thursday.
  • Mark Zuckerberg's social media giant also announced a $50 billion stock buyback.

With profits soaring and its shares hitting record highs, Meta has



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Defendant Jennifer Crumbley, left, speaks with her attorney during her jury trial at the Oakland County Courthouse in Michigan.
Jennifer Crumbley, left, speaks with her attorney during her jury trial at the Oakland County Courthouse in Michigan.
  • A judge will allow evidence of Jennifer Crumbley's affair into her trial.
  • Crumbley and her husband face involuntary manslaughter charges related to their son's shooting.
  • The Crumbley's son pleaded guilty to carrying out a school shooting in Oxford, Michigan in 2021.

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After four consecutive quarters of revenue decline, Apple broke the trend and reported its first period of revenue growth today. In its earnings report for the first quarter of the financial year of 2024, the company announced a quarterly revenue of $119.6 billion, which is an increase of 2 percent from the same period last year. 

In addition, Apple CEO Tim Cook said its "installed base of active



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Mark Zuckerberg is smiling: Meta's profit margins are much improved — and that's partly because of a shrinking head count.
  • Meta lost an astonishing $16 billion on the Metaverse last year.
  • But Wall Street loves Meta late Thursday: Its stock is up another 12%.
  • One big reason: Even with the Metaverse losses, Meta's margins are way, way better.

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Every time another Google app or feature bites the dust — even a small, relatively inconsequential one — I get annoyed. Really annoyed.

Here’s the thing: there are Google Assistant-equipped devices in three rooms of my relatively small house: living room, bedroom, and office. Which means, unfortunately, that when I say “Hey, Google” out loud to my



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Fighters of Wagner private mercenary group pull out of the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to base, in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023.
Wagner Group mercenaries in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023.
  • Russia's national guard is integrating former Wagner Group fighters into a volunteer formation.
  • Britain's defense ministry said Rosgvardia will likely deploy these fighters to Ukraine or Africa.
  • It's the latest effort by Moscow to clamp down on the ruthless mercenary organization.

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Tomorrow, Apple will launch its Vision Pro headset, marking the company’s most high-profile product launch since the original Apple Watch. And later this year, it will open up the iPhone’s App Store (at least in the EU) in new ways, offering developers more freedom — even if some of them are already displeased with the approach Apple is



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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  • An X user posted a video showing RFK Jr.'s TikTok had commented on OnlyFans model's TikTok account.
  • RFK Jr. acknowledged the comment Thursday, and said it was from a staffer's old account.
  • "Do people really think I was TikToking in 2022?," the longshot presidential candidate wrote on X.

On Wednesday, an X user by the name of


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