Stevie Bonifield

News Writer

Stevie BonifieldApr 24

Norway could be the next nation to ban kids from social media.

As Reuters reports, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced plans for a bill barring teens from social media until “January 1st the year a child turns 16,” similar to Australia’s.

“I can now confirm that we are planning to submit a bill to the Parliament before the end of the year. We are introducing this legislation because we want a childhood where children get to be children. Play, friendships, and everyday life must not be taken over by algorithms and screens.”

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Stevie BonifieldApr 23

DirecTV is streaming TV directly into Meta Quest headsets.

DirecTV now supports mixed reality with its new app for the Quest 2, 3, 3S, and even Pro headsets. There’s live TV for subscribers, plus on-demand and ad-supported content anyone can watch, available in the app store or through the Horizon TV hub Meta launched last year.

A person watching The Pitt on DirecTV with a Meta Quest headset

Image: DirecTV

Stevie BonifieldApr 23

Meta’s new Account system manages your WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and other logins.

This hub holds certain settings that work across Meta’s apps and allows for using a single password for access across all accounts and managing passkeys.

Any accounts users currently have connected in Meta’s Account Center will automatically transfer to the new Meta Account that’s rolling out “over the next year.”

Screenshots of Meta’s new Meta Account hub

Screenshots of the security pages in Meta’s new Meta Account hub

A screenshot of cross-app settings in the Meta Account hub

A screenshot of the passkey login page on Instagram

1/4Image: Meta

Stevie BonifieldApr 23

SpaceX is making its own GPUs.

That’s listed among SpaceX’s “substantial capital expenditures” in the S-1 registration filed ahead of its IPO, reports Reuters.

The space / AI / social network company is working with Intel to build its “Terafab” chip plant that Musk said could rely on a new 14A chip manufacturing process.

Exclusive: SpaceX targets in-house GPUs as it warns investors of chip supply, costs

[Reuters]

Stevie BonifieldApr 22

Google says 75 percent of all its new code is AI-generated.

That’s “up from 50% last fall,” according to a blog post from Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google recently created a “strike team” to improve its AI models’ coding capabilities and catch up to Anthropic, which as of February writes 70 to 90 percent of its code with Claude Code.

Cloud Next ‘26: Momentum and innovation at Google scale

[Google]