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Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web — A report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta's Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk's X on mobile devices.
RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched in 2022 that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched in 2022 that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate — Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh tell TechCrunch.
Demon Slayer's head writer reveals how cornerstone of Japanese cinema inspired Infinity Castle
How Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai shaped Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, inspiring Hikaru Kondo’s intense, high-stakes anime epic.
Why the False Hydra is D&D’s best homebrew monster — and why you can only run it once
The False Hydra turns player forgetfulness into horror, making it one of the smartest and most memorable homebrew monsters in D&D.
Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 stopped some computers from shutting down
Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to release an emergency out-of-band update to fix some pretty serious bugs, the first one introduced. The security patch was stopping some systems from shutting down or hibernating properly, and also preventing some users […]