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| NBC News: |
Trump says he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve after he takes office on Monday “because it's appropriate” — Trump spoke to NBC News' Kristen Welker in an exclusive phone interview Saturday, discussing his plans on what to do about the popular social media app.
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X: @pkafka, @brianstelter, @souljaboy, @mgsiegler, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @willguyatt, @kylewilsontharp, @dtrinh, @adamkovac, @willguyatt, and @pkafka
Forums: r/politics, r/centrist, and r/technology
| NBC News: |
ByteDance's TikTok and CapCut suspend service in the US, telling users “Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok” — Users reported being unable to access TikTok Saturday after a pop-up message from the company came up on their screens saying “a law banning TikTok has been enacted.”
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Bluesky: @bobbyallyn, @karaswisher, @shellen.com, @kattenbarge, @rusty.todayintabs.com, @devawo, @joshtpm, and @kevinrothrock.me
X: @jason, @yashar, @tomzohar, @noahpinion, @mikeisaac, @turnernovak, @courtneyknorris, and @chrisfralic
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
TikTok is not available for download in the App Store and Play Store in the US, as the app halts service in the country to comply with the divest-or-ban law — Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China's ByteDance to divest … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Source: Perplexity AI made a TikTok US bid to ByteDance, proposing a merger that brings video to Perplexity, with ByteDance investors retaining their stakes — Perplexity AI officially made a play for TikTok on Saturday, submitting a bid to its parent company, ByteDance …
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X: @maxwinebach, @levie, and @haydenfield
LinkedIn: Marty Swant and Pramod Gosavi
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/news, r/technology, r/StockMarket, and r/perplexity_ai
| Ana Faguy / BBC: |
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
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Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, and @Dhmspector@mastodon.social. Threads: @chancehmiller
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LinkedIn: Jake Farbman, Emil Protalinski, Jon Adams, and Mark Lemley
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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Bluesky: @mikealves, @undersized5, and @kwirl
Forums: r/technology and r/TikTok
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
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Threads: @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @tomgara, @mike_isaac, @wongmjane, @tomgara, @mwi.invest, and @ronaldfilipkowski
| Financial Times: |
A profile of Charlwin Mao, founder of Xiaohongshu or “Little Red Book”, who claims the name references the color of his university Stanford and ex-employer Bain — A sudden surge of US users on Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, could threaten China's Great Firewall
More: Livemint, The Guardian, Carolina Journal, PCMag, The Verge, and Reuters
| Politico: |
Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of Chinese-owned apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban — The Chinese apps RedNote and Lemon8 have exploded in popularity as TikTok faces an imminent ban and the Supreme Court upheld the law forcing its sale.
More: Macau Business and Louisville Public Media
Bluesky: @drdoofenschmirtz, @ricyrick87, @masterplan15, @drdoofenschmirtz, @romitmehta.com, @pharmesq, and @mikemillennial
| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: |
A close look at some privacy implications of AI interfacing with messaging apps and other E2EE systems, Apple's approach to “Private Cloud Compute”, and more — Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.”
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Forums: Hacker News and r/privacy
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
TikTok bans in countries around the world have played out quite differently; Instagram Reels largely replaced TikTok in India, following TikTok's ban in 2020 — India's 2020 crackdown helped give rise to Instagram Reels, which has largely replaced it there. But TikTok has proved more resilient elsewhere.
More: Android Headlines, AfroTech, Time, User Mag, TechCrunch, and 9to5Mac
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very few Americans seem concerned that one of the nation's most popular social media apps will disappear — So this may be the way TikTok ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper. — Over the past few weeks, as the Jan. 19 deadline loomed …
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| Axios: |
CoinGecko: $TRUMP rose more than 600% overnight and was trading at just over $32 as of 11AM ET, giving it a fully diluted market capitalization of $32B+ — - It also speaks to the nature of the crypto industry that someone could have $25 billion worth of something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.
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Bluesky: @wkamaubell, @celiene-ohara, @davelevitan, @ianbassin, @melomys, @pharmesq, @pharmesq, and @drdoofenschmirtz. Mastodon: @Dhmspector@mastodon.social
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
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Bluesky: @muralive, @carnage4life, @paleofuture, and @mmasnick
X: @realdonaldtrump, @scaramucci, @kobeissiletter, @solanafloor, @0xcygaar, @0xcygaar, @jconorgrogan, @coffeebreak_yt, @solanalegend, @chooserich, @pitdesi, @erictrump, @patio11, @arrington, @naiivememe, @tszzl, @silvermanjacob, @turnernovak, @luke_metro, @rampcapitalllc, @gestaltu, @0xmert_, @teroterotero, @jstein_wapo, @frankluntz, @bennpeifert, @timodc, @teroterotero, @frankdegods, @sherlock_hodles, @0xsmac, @teroterotero, @intern, @krishnanrohit, @teroterotero, @biancoresearch, @ashleymayer, @teroterotero, @kobeissiletter, @krassenstein, @sawcruhteez, @gametheorizing, @autismcapital, @zerohedge, @damidefi, and @geiger_capital
Forums: r/conspiracy, r/Economics, r/economicCollapse, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/Buttcoin, and r/Destiny
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A whistleblower complaint claims Amazon paid $380M for licensing robot maker Covariant's tech and hiring its staff, and the deal merits antitrust scrutiny — Filing details $400 million license for smart robot system and claims retail giant's “reverse acquihire” contract limits competition and merits antitrust scrutiny.
Bluesky: @ceodonovan and @kostyack
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin outlines “large changes” to Ethereum Foundation leadership structure, after fellow Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin called for new EF leadership — - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, in a post on X, said “large changes” to the leadership structure of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) are underway.
More: Cryptopolitan, Coinpedia Fintech News, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, and The Crypto Times
X: @vitalikbuterin, @owocki, and @vitalikbuterin
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Instagram now lets users upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit, as TikTok is set to go dark on Sunday — Instagram will now let you upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit the platform had in place before, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri announced today.
More: NewsBytes, Social Media Today, Engadget, and The Verge
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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