Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone
Vice-president JD Vance pushed for right-wing media star's inclusion in a deal for video app — Alex Rogers in Washington … Bluesky: @evelyndouek , @justinhendrix , @paleofuture ,...
Sources: Trump plans to extend TikTok's June 19 sale deadline; ByteDance told the White House that China wouldn't approve a deal until trade negotiations began
again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back Isaiah Richard / Tech Times : TikTok Ban Extension Reportedly Coming Again: POTUS Trump to Give It More Time After June 19 Jame...
Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
A researcher finds messaging app JusTalk, which has ~20M users, exposed a database with millions of conversations and call logs in plaintext since January 2022
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Source: at a Meta-wide meeting, Mark Zuckerberg told staff to focus on growing short-video products, citing an “unprecedented level of competition” from TikTok
Mark Zuckerberg quipped that if he started to cry, it wasn't because of the day's news.
A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6%
Tatenda Musapatike is as familiar as anyone with the way Facebook's political ad system works. During the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms … Tweets: @carnage4life , @somospostp...
A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6%
Tatenda Musapatike is as familiar as anyone with the way Facebook's political ad system works. During the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms … Tweets: @carnage4life , @somospostp...
Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse
The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Econ...
Police rely heavily on car sensor and infotainment system data, including GPS and call records, to challenge alibis, thanks to looser privacy standards for cars
On June 26, 2017, the lifeless body of Ronald French, a bearded auto mechanic with once-twinkling eyes, was mysteriously found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Review of Amazon's $100 Halo Band, a health tracking bracelet: excessively invasive without offering much in return for the data
and makes the absolute least use of it.” Comes with bonus sexism: “an automated system that essentially says, 'Hey, sweetie, why don't you smile more?'” https://www.washingtonpost....
In a letter to Sen. Wyden, ODNI says FBI used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect website visitor logs without a warrant, but not keywords from searches
before being caught by DOJ. https://twitter.com/... Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer : It's been obvious from the outset that Section 215 would be used in precisely this way. Congress...
Study: smart speakers accidentally activate to random words between 1.5 and 19 times per day on average, with HomePod and Cortana devices activating the most
WHEN SPEAKERS ARE ALL EARS — Understanding when smart speakers mistakenly record conversations