Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

When the companies disabled HEVC support built into the CPUs of select PCs, it raised uncomfortable questions: Why remove a ...
Cleveland.com

Are teenage girls addicted to social media? Richard M. Perloff

The recent court decision that ruled against Meta and YouTube, on the grounds that they caused mental harm to a young woman’s perceptions of her body, suggests that social media has addictive ...
MediaPost

PQ: AI So Far Having Negligible Effect On Consumer Time Spent With Media

Consumer time spent with artificial intelligence (AI) so far has had a negligible impact on the overall time spent with media, according to the findings of PQ Media's just-released Global Consumer ...
CNN

Meta’s Zuckerberg testifies about social media’s effects on children in landmark trial

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled Wednesday about whether his company intentionally designed Instagram to be addictive, in front of the young woman accusing Meta and YouTube of hooking her as a ...
Reason

A 'Goldilocks' Effect for Online Teens? Moderate Social Media Users Fare Better Than Abstainers or Heavy Users

A giant new study of social media use by fourth through twelfth graders found that moderate use of online platforms was "associated with the best well-being outcomes"—better than those seen with kids ...
Courthouse News Service

'Engineered addiction': Landmark trial over social media's effect on kids boots up in downtown LA

Parents who say their children's deaths were caused by social media platforms outside Spring Street Courthouse, in February 2026, days ahead of the landmark social media addiction trial (Jordan ...
Business Wire

DHI Group Announces New $10 Million Stock Repurchase Program

CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) today announced that its Board of Directors authorized a new stock repurchase program that permits the repurchase of up to $10 million ...
The Atlantic

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...
WAVY-TV

New Virginia law limiting how long children can use social media takes effect

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – A new Virginia law that went into effect Jan. 1 requires social media companies to limit the usage of children who are under the age of 16. These new Virginia laws go into ...
AV Club

Sony shells out nearly half a billion for Peanuts

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang are the newest hot old property that a large corporation is ready to spend a ton of money on. Variety reports that Sony Pictures Entertainment ...
Medicine Buffalo

Researchers say funding is critical to understanding the effects of social media

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Understanding the effects of a constantly changing social media landscape has grown more challenging with potential federal policy changes that would limit the funding required to ...
USA Today

Australia becomes the first country to have a social media ban

SYDNEY - Australia at midnight became the first country in the world to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram ...