Midjourney ends free trials, citing “extraordinary demand” and “abuse”, after fake images of Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis wearing a coat went viral
Alibaba plans its biggest restructuring ever, reorganizing its businesses into six independent entities and moving all operational decisions to each unit's CEO
announced a day after co-founder Jack Ma returned to mainland China after almost a year overseas. @hwclarence @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/... Paul Page / @paulpage : Alibaba...
Decentralized social network app Damus debuts on the App Store with E2EE for DMs; Damus uses the Nostr protocol, to which Jack Dorsey donated ~14 BTC in 2022
and what can be heard—#nostr is an open protocol. If a platform is a silo, a protocol is a river: no one owns it, and everyone is free to swim. https://t.co/NOW06ouJIw @onelikeapp ...
Sources: US senators raise concerns as hundreds of China-made DJI recreational drones have violated restricted airspace over Washington, DC in recent months
White House, Pentagon, Capitol— in recent months, a trend nat-sec agencies fear could become a new means for foreign espionage.” @BryanDBender @AndrewDesiderio https://www.politico...
Sources: as soon as this week, the US is likely to limit access of several Chinese AI and supercomputing companies and labs to US tech, machinery, and software
New York Times :
The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children
on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security p...
A document from TikTok's engineering team in Beijing details the product's addictive algorithm, which optimizes for “retention” and “time spent”
It's the most successful video app in the world. Our columnist has obtained an internal company document that offers … Tweets: @zeyiyang , @akcronin , @jerrydunleavy , @mims , @gw...
Behind the scramble to revamp the White House's plans for the Alliance for the Future of the Internet, meant to rally countries behind a vision for an open web
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol :
How the rhetoric surrounding techno-globalism has shifted, from countries advocating for a free, open internet to imposing limits to protect national interests
Two key words were missing from the statements that followed the inaugural in-person summit in September of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue … Tweets: @sariarhohavren , @chadbow...
How the rhetoric surrounding techno-globalism has shifted, from countries advocating for a free, open internet to imposing limits to protect national interests
Two key words were missing from the statements that followed the inaugural in-person summit in September of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue … Tweets: @gwbstr , @carnage4life , ...
When trying to address problems that social media may cause for young people, lawmakers focus on Facebook and largely ignore TikTok, which most teens use
YouTube is the undisputed master of this strategy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : Of, for that matter, the rest of the media where we have a very lon...
Chinese police are using a state-backed anti-fraud app, installed on 200M+ devices, to identify and question people who have viewed overseas financial news
Police identify and question people on back of software meant to prevent online scams — Chinese police are using … Tweets: @byron_wan , @colgo , @paulmozur , @byron_wan , @jcheng...
Sources: weeks before Didi's US IPO, the Chinese regulator that eventually ordered Didi's app banned had suggested to the company that it delay the listing
Ride-hailing giant, under pressure to reward shareholders, pushed ahead with NYSE listing despite concerns of China's cybersecurity watchdog
Biden issues an order banning US investment in 59 Chinese tech companies that aid surveillance, substantially expanding on an earlier order issued by Trump
The new order includes firms engaged in making and deploying the surveillance technology used against Muslim minorities and dissidents around the globe.
Draft executive order from Biden admin orders development of a US supply chain strategy less reliant on China, focused on chips, batteries, rare-earth metals
Nikkei Asia :
US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday
one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Stree...
Trump says he has approved Oracle's bid for the US operations of TikTok “in concept”
ByteDance asserts it will maintain majority ownership and control over TikTok Global and will not transfer source code or technology to Oracle and Walmart
Chinese company contradicts assertions of Donald Trump, Oracle and Walmart — ByteDance said on Monday that it would maintain majority ownership …
Sources: ByteDance plans to place TikTok's global business in a standalone US-based company, likely with Oracle, Walmart, and others as minority shareholders
so what's the point? PYMNTS.com : Decision Expected Soon On TikTok-Oracle Deal Daily Mail : Microsoft may have unintentionally sabotaged its TikTok deal by upsetting Chinese owner ...
Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's US operations, expecting it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft
Microsoft still seen as front-runner in bidding for video-sharing app's U.S. operations — Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.46% …