The New York Times

Threads, Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Finds Its People

The social platform that Meta once positioned as a rival to Elon Musk’s X now has 500 million monthly users. It increasingly resembles Reddit. Meta’s office in San Francisco. Threads aims to reach one ...
Forbes

Threads, Meta’s X Competitor, Hits 500 Million Monthly Users

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. Forbes previously reported in September that Threads had surpassed X in its number of daily active users. (Photo Illustration by Justin ...
Reuters

Meta's Threads reaches 500 million monthly users, rolls out new features

June 16 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday its Threads app had reached 500 million monthly active users, nearly three years ‌after the social network platform was ...
The Verge

Threads is finally getting direct messages on the desktop.

A new “Messages” tab appears in this preview of its redesigned web layout that head of Threads, Connor Hayes, posted on Thursday, as Engadget reports. Threads got DMs in 2025, but only on Android and ...
Hacker

Building a Thread Pool from Scratch in Java: Understanding Concurrency by Rebuilding the Core of JVM

Your browser does not support the audio element. Image Description : Think of a thread pool like a busy restaurant kitchen. Incoming orders (tasks) are placed on the ...
InfoWorld

JDK 26: The new features in Java 26

JDK 26 has moved to general production availability. This short-term feature release is backed by six months of Premier-level support. Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, the latest standard Java release ...
TechSpot

Minecraft Java Edition is finally moving from OpenGL to multi-threaded Vulkan

Looking ahead: The first official visual upgrade in Minecraft's 16-year history was released last June for Bedrock Edition players. However, the original Java version has a long road ahead of it ...
InfoQ

Are You Missing a Data Frame? The Power of Data Frames in Java

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Andy Brinkmeyer shares how engineering ...
Android Police

Threads is finally beating X, but it's not for the reason you think

Jon Gilbert is a Features Writer for Android Police. I've covered Android since 2021, focusing on writing features and guides about Android apps and features that directly affect users. I've attended ...
CNBC

Meta to begin rolling out Threads ads globally

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta on Wednesday said it will begin to show advertising on its Threads microblogging service to all users globally starting next week. Threads has surpassed more ...
Engadget

Threads has more global daily users than X on mobile for the first time

Meta's Threads is pulling further ahead of Elon Musk's X on mobile, based on recent estimates from analytics firm Similarweb, Forbes reports. In the first stretch of January, Threads averaged roughly ...