TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”
The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a $9B+ market cap, is still in the top 25 most valuable cryptocurrencies; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”
Trump's memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night. Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.
Melania Trump launches her own Solana coin, MELANIA, offered by MKT World, a company associated with Melania Trump; TRUMP fell ~36% on the news
Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership
Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension. — No, that's not a legally available option. — The 270 days lapsed. An extension is no longer available (even if TikTok met 3 ...
In a rare move, Apple publishes a statement and a support document listing all ByteDance apps inaccessible in the US alongside TikTok, including Lemon8 and Lark
So even though we banned TikTok, ostensibly for security reasons, we end up creating an even bigger security problem when millions of people install some app that can read and modify all traffic. Dare...
Source: DOGE co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy will leave the task force, as he plans a campaign for Ohio governor; sources: Musk associates undercut Ramaswamy for weeks
Vivek Ramaswamy, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
Google Play and Apple's App Store still aren't offering TikTok in the US; Senator Tom Cotton warns of “ruinous liability”, as Trump says there's “no liability”
Plus Latest Statements from Trump, TikTok, and Congress Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : TikTok Partially Resumes US Service After Trump Intervention, But App Store Ban Persists Kipp Jones / Mediait...
Bitcoin passed $108K hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, after topping $100K for the first time in December 2024 before falling to ~$90K
The price of bitcoin surged to over $109,000 early Monday, just hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration …
TikTok's service providers are risking billions in fines for keeping the app online, as Trump's assurances that it's safe to support TikTok are legally flimsy
but the ban hasn't gone away Benedict Collins / TechRadar : Providers hosting TikTok could still face penalties despite extension, experts warn Jamaica Gleaner : US bans TikTok - Five essential reads ...
Meta unveils Edits, a video editing app coming in February on iOS and later on Android, after US app stores removed CapCut as part of the divest-or-ban law
Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance's video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple's App Store …
China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying that it would block any forced sale of TikTok
Founder of app's parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year — SINGAPORE—China suggested it was willing …
Bluesky launches video custom feeds for TikTok-style vertical videos in its mobile app, saying “we had to get in on the video action, too”
It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok's services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in the App Store and the Play Store.
X rolls out a dedicated video tab in the US in the app's bottom bar, letting users vertically scroll through short videos, after launching a TV app in 2024
Social network X is trying to capitalize on the removal of ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 from U.S. app stores by launching a dedicated vertical video feed.
The European Commission says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others agreed to an updated code of conduct, first set up in May 2016, over hate speech under the DSA
Meta's (META.O) Facebook, Elon Musk's X, Google's (GOOGL.O) YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online …
US and European officials: evidence suggests recent damage to Baltic Sea subsea internet cables was likely caused by maritime accidents, not Russian sabotage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Shashank Joshi / @shashj : This is why it's always important to be cautious. “Ruptures of undersea cables ... in recent months were likely the result of maritime...
A look at the CIA's AI use, including a chatbot that lets analysts talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers to predict their behaviors
The spy agency is trying to give its teams better tools and make it easier for the private sector to develop technology for their secretive work. Forums: r/artificial Forums: r/artificial : C.I.A.'s C...
An interview with Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, which was acquired by Prosus for $1.8B in 2021, on his plans to donate half his net worth and more
Plenty of wealthy people plan to donate most of their fortunes to philanthropic causes. Jeff Atwood says he'll actually do it within the next five years.
Meta says it will continue to use its fact checkers outside of the US “for now”, and plans to see how its Community Notes system works in the US before deciding
Meta, which said it will replace third-party fact checkers in the US with a community notes system …
Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... @traplife : www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... We wanted to know why democracy is the worst form of government. So in this week's ‘The Interview’, we sat down with a fas...
US drone makers are wary of working with Taiwanese companies, fearing China's retaliation and being caught in a crossfire if US-China tensions rise under Trump
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A look at UK hedge fund Man Group's ArcticDB, an open-source tool developed internally and used by clients like Bloomberg to analyze stock trading data and more
A tool for crunching billions of rows and millions of columns of data is the stuff of nightmares for some. … James Munro : I'm not sure I'd call it Excel on steroids but perhaps I'm too close. For or...
Democratic Republic of Congo lawyers say Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the DRC
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US Commerce Department official Alan Estevez says export rules have “definitely impeded” China's AI chips, and defends the recent three-tier chip access rules
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times :
Researchers say the recent surge in SMS phishing spam, warning US recipients about unpaid tolls, coincides with new features in a popular Chinese phishing kit
Good morning. We have brought our world to an awe-inspiring threshold of the future. Stu Sjouwerman / KnowBe4 Security Awareness … : Phishing Campaign Attempts to Bypass iOS Protections
A 2024 study of 205 randomly chosen Community Notes on X about COVID-19 vaccines found that 97% of the notes were accurate and ~50% cited high-quality sources
Adam Kucharski / Bloomberg :
A profile of Spotify's Head of Editorial Sulinna Ong, whose team curates thousands of playlists and discovers new artists to complement Spotify's algorithms
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal :
An interview with Broadcom CEO Hock Tan on the backlash from some VMware customers, VMware as a “sovereign” alternative to Big Tech's cloud services, and more
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
Analysis: Chinese AI researchers produced ~46K collaborative papers with their US counterparts over the past decade, followed by ~19K with researchers in the UK
Khadija Alam / Rest of World :
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