You can now edit your Instagram comments
Instagram users can now edit comments, which is a long-awaited fix for anyone who’s ever had to delete and re-post a comment just to fix a typo.
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Instagram expands its movie-inspired content restrictions for teens internationally | TechCrunch
Instagram debuted its movie-rating-inspired content settings in limited countries in 2025.
Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what? | TechCrunch
Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.
Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs
The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.
Meta is cutting several hundred jobs | TechCrunch
Meta is laying off several hundred employees across multiple teams, including sales, recruiting, and the Reality Labs division. The cuts will impact employees in the U.S. and other international markets.
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games, with ambitions beyond gaming | TechCrunch
Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 uses generative AI and structured graphics data to make video games more realistic. CEO Jensen Huang says the approach could eventually spread to other industries.
Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools | TechCrunch
Digg laid off a significant number of staff and shut down its app, but says it's not giving up on the startup.
Atlassian follows Block’s footsteps and cuts staff in the name of AI | TechCrunch
Atlassian laid off 10% of its workforce, around 1,600 people, as the company looks to funnel more funds to AI.
Google Play is adding new paid and PC games, game trials, community posts, and more | TechCrunch
The updates indicate that Google is focused on transforming Google Play into an enhanced gaming hub.
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2025 is: Glīd | TechCrunch
Glīd, which is trying to streamline cargo container logistics, has beaten out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home $100,000.
Meta’s AI translation tool can dub your Instagram videos
You can even have Meta AI match the movement of your lips to the translated audio.
LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally | TechCrunch
LocalStack shifts app development and testing off the cloud and onto developers' local machines, starting with a focus on AWS.
GMI Cloud secures $82M in Series A for its GPU cloud infrastructure | TechCrunch
The AI boom has spurred massive demand for graphics processing units (GPUs). As many enterprises seek to integrate AI technology into their systems,
Confluent acquires streaming data startup WarpStream | TechCrunch
Confluent plans to use WarpStream's cloud-native solution to fill out its portfolio by offering a new service (Confluent WarpStream) that can sit in between its fully-managed Confluent Cloud and self-managed Confluent Platform.
CIOs' concerns over generative AI echo those of the early days of cloud computing | TechCrunch
CIOs trying to govern generative AI have the same concerns they had about cloud computing 15 years ago, but they've learned some things along the way.
Dive goes cloud-native for its computational fluid dynamics simulation service | TechCrunch
Spun out of Bosch, Dive wants to change how manufacturers use computer simulations by both using modern mathematical approaches and cloud computing.