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Tumblr is walking back a major change to how reblog notes work, less than two days after pushing it live. The company shared its statement on X, saying the reaction had been strong and that it would not pretend otherwise. As we reported yesterday, the update immediately got most users up in arms and demanding a revert. Instead of funneling likes, reblogs, and replies back to the original post, each reblog in a chain now got its own separate set of notes. Tumblr called it a way to give contributors the recognition they deserve. Users were not buying it. Over 100,000 complaints were submitted through Tumblr’s feedback system. The official staff response post pulled more than 28,000 comments, most of them negative. One X user even shared a screenshot of a Tumblr post showing the before-and-after of the update. Their post had 152,372 notes in the old view. After the update, it showed 2 comments, 1,107 reblogs, and 1,673 likes. Not even two percent of the actual interaction. For a lot of creators, the problem was not just how it looked but that they had no way of knowing how far their work had actually traveled once it left their

Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Tumblr has overhauled its reblogging feature to add new options for interacting with chained posts, and it hasn’t gone down well with many of the platform’s users. The update announced by Tumblr on Monday enables users to like, reblog, and reply to any post nestled within a reblog chain, with subsequent reblogs having their own note counts instead of a single aggregated figure for every version of the post. Visually speaking, the changes break up Tumblr’s iconic collapsed reblog chain UI — something long considered to be a part of the platform’s core user experience — into separate posts. In its announcement for the update, Tumblr even acknowledges that “the reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else.” The new experience looks closer at how reblogs behave on X, Bluesky, and Threads. And the similarities haven’t gone unnoticed by many Tumblr users who are now pushing back against the platform becoming “another Twitter look-alike,” and say the updated reblog chains are harder to follow. Users have also flagged that the

Photo of Darryl Ahner courtesy of Kennesaw State University Kennesaw State University has named accomplished academic leader and researcher Darryl Ahner as dean of the College of Computing and Software Engineering (CCSE), effective July 1. Ahner currently serves as dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University, where he has led initiatives that strengthened student success, grew enrollment, and advanced research innovation. In his three years as dean, student retention increased through targeted academic support programs, a new engineering technology pathway was implemented to help students progress toward degrees, and industry partnerships were expanded through the Work Forward Internships Program. “Dr. Darryl Ahner’s exceptional record of scholarship, innovation, and service makes him an outstanding choice to guide the College of Computing and Software Engineering to greater heights on KSU’s path to national prominence,” KSU President Kathy S. Schwaig said. “His leadership will help position Kennesaw State at the forefront of emerging technologies and prepare students for careers in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.” Ahner will continue to grow KSU’s highly regarded College of Computing and Software Engineering, which consistently ranks among the best in

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tumblr experienced a possible outage Monday, according to Downdetector.com. More than 3,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 10:45 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users who reported an issue to Downdetector said that they had issues with the mobile application. — Connect with  Anthony W. Haddad  on social media. Got a tip? Send an  email . 

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FCC chair Brendan Carr said broadcasters could lose their licenses if they do not “operate in the public interest,” reiterating President Donald Trump‘s criticism of media coverage of the Iran war. “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions — also known as the fake news — have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr wrote on X Saturday as he reshared a post Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.” He continued, “And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.” In Trump’s original post, he slammed “an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further

Posted By: Larry Felton Johnson March 14, 2026 The Cobb County Courier has a quiz we run from Monday to Thursday in our email newsletter. Here on the main website, it will be a weekend quiz, published Saturdays and Sundays. On Saturday the quiz will highlight news stories from the county over the past week. This quiz is for the week ending Friday, March 13, 2026. The purpose is to create a fun educational experience that engages readers. Looking up the answers on the web or in other sources is not cheating. The quiz aims to encourage readers to learn about the operation and history of the county in which they live. It’s great if you already know the answers, but if you don’t, you should learn them! The answers for this quiz can be found by visiting the links listed below the quiz. If you want a daily dose of the quiz, subscribe to the Courier’s newsletter by following this link. It’s free, and you get a list of our latest headlines, plus the daily version of this quiz. Have fun! Answer key links Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5

Executive Summary On 7 March 2026, the Taliban Defence Minister, during a Pashto-language engagement with ToloNews, identified theDurand Lineas a primary friction point in Afghan-Pakistani relations. The Minister acknowledged a formal Pakistani proposal for the definitive recognition of the Line as an international border. Given the protracted territorial dispute and escalating frontier skirmishes, this report evaluates whether a diplomatic resolution would mitigate regional volatility or inadvertently catalyse local insurgencies by further fragmenting the Pashtun ethnic core. Key Points The Durand Line remains one of South Asia’s most enduring territorial disputes; its legal ambiguity serves as a significant strategic lever for Kabul against Islamabad. The creation of an official border between Pakistan and Afghanistan may successfully represent a milestone in a de-escalation policy for both countries. Pashtun populations risk another fragmentation of their tribal customs and the end of their ‘Pashtunistan’ nationalist project. Background Information On 7 March 2026,Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob, the Minister of Defence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, accentuated how the Durand Line still represents a major element of tension between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He further emphasised Pakistan’s worries about this matter and admitted that Islamabad had proposed to officially recognise the Durand Line as the international boundary

The ivy-covered walls of elite schools and universities have long been a subject of intrigue, evoking curiosity about what happens within these institutions. The insular nature of academia has left many wondering: What do the students know that I don’t? This mystique, fueled by popular media from the juggernaut that is Harry Potter to the 1989 cult classic Dead Poets Society, feeds into the “dark academia” and “light academia” styles that have come to permeate the internet in recent years. On TikTok, you might find men sporting wool trousers, dark overcoats, and toting around leather-bound books, looking as if they were running to a lecture. While most microtrends tend to come and go in the TikTok era (a time of hyper-niche “cores” and “aesthetics”), academia has served as a constant source of style inspiration for millennials and Gen Z since the Tumblr heyday of the 2010s. Now, on just TikTok alone, there are over 700,000 videos under the #darkacademia tag, and over 80,000 under #lightacademia. Both dark and light academia deliver autumnal ensembles that look and feel like the first day of a new semester. Each aesthetic favors a layered outfit involving garments such as tweed jackets, chunky cable-knit sweaters