The next morning: is it time to quit Twitter?

There's never been a better time to stop tweeting.

Welcome, reader, to 2023! While some of us are still mulling over New Year's resolutions (we've got the tech to help you here), will 2023 be the year you finally break away from Twitter? There has never been a better time. All this Elon Musk-induced mayhem has breathed new life into the many Twitter alternatives. Of them all, Mastodon probably benefited the most. The open-source service gained notoriety in 2017 when some Twitter users were upset about the company's changes to the @-replies feature. (At the time, it was a big deal.) Mastodon isn't the only app to benefit from the Twitter turmoil, however. Other apps like CounterSocial, which has a Tweetdeck-like interface, and Tribel have also seen increased user numbers. There are also a few newcomers. Post News, a new service from former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, also attempted to capitalize on the current state of Twitter.

Meanwhile, Twitter hasn't paid the rent for its office in San Francisco. According to Bloomberg, Twitter was notified on December 16 that it would not honor its lease for the 30th floor of the Hartford building. So far, he hasn't paid $136,250 in rent.

– Mat Smith

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After completing its 1.4 million kilometer round trip to the Moon early last month, NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is back at Kennedy Space Center. The homecoming took place on December 30. Artemis 1's record-breaking journey began Nov. 16, launched atop the heavy rocket of NASA's Next-Generation Space Launch System. NASA will now conduct a "thorough analysis" of the component and determine precisely how it behaved during atmospheric re-entry. The agency will also remove Moonikin Campos, the test dummy sent by NASA aboard Orion to collect data on how trips to the Moon might affect humans.

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The app previously added age restrictions to some "mature" content.

TikTok is launching a new version of its "borderline suggestive model", which the company uses to automatically identify "sexually explicit, suggestive or borderline content". According to a TikTok spokesperson, the new model can better detect what's called "borderline content," videos that don't explicitly violate the app's rules but may not be suitable for younger users. Elsewhere, the app also allows creators to restrict their videos to adult viewers.

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The attorney general's office accused the company of using deceptive techniques.

Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine announced that his office had reached an agreement with Grubhub “to charge customers hidden fees and use deceptive marketing techniques.” The company was sued earlier this year, accused of charging hidden fees and misrepresenting the Grubhub+ subscription's "unlimited free shipping" offer because customers still have to pay a service fee. The DC attorney general's office also accused the company of listing 1,000...