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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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| 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 …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Card game Marvel Snap, published by ByteDance-owned Nuverse, cuts off access for US gamers, as the TikTok divest-or-ban law impacts other ByteDance-linked apps — The divest-or-ban law aimed at TikTok is also taking down other ByteDance-linked apps, including the popular card game Marvel Snap.| 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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| Nitish Pahwa / Slate: |
The messy TikTok saga in the US over the past five years has shown that lawmakers are as spineless and skittish as everyone suspects them to be — Well, that escalated slowly over the course of four years. — It is 2020. The United States government threatens to forbid access … | 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 … | 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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| Ana Faguy / BBC: |
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase and Binance plan to list the TRUMP token, with Binance opening trading on Jan. 19; CoinGecko: $TRUMP is trading on Bitget, Kraken, and other exchanges — The ‘official’ memecoin of the second Donald Trump administration will be listed on major cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase …
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
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| 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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| 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.
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