Threads, Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Finds Its People

The social platform that Meta once positioned as a rival to Elon Musk’s X now has 500 million monthly users. It increasingly ...
The Verge

Half a billion people are using Threads every month

Just shy of its third birthday, Meta is announcing a big milestone for Threads. Just shy of its third birthday, Meta is announcing a big milestone for Threads. is a senior reporter covering ...

Idaho will use firing squad as main execution method beginning July 2026

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Idaho is first to use firing squads as primary state execution method

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

How Meta Got 500 Million Threads Users Without Building An Audience

Threads hit 500M users by tapping Instagram’s built-in audience, showing Meta’s true asset is its distribution pipeline, not apps.

Luigi Mangione gets stuck in an elevator before judge delays his federal trial until January

U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said she was postponing the federal trial so Mangione's lawyers can focus on his state ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Apparently a lot of people — half a billion! — use Threads every month

“Meta says that daily active users on Threads continue to ‘increase strongly across the globe,’ with ‘all’ of it driven by communities, which allow users to see and make posts about different ...
InfoWorld

True multithreading in Python at last!

True multithreading in Python is here at last! Now, you just need to make it work in your programs. Life without Python’s ‘dead batteries’ Python 3.13 cleaned house, including removing a bunch of ...