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TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes to block the ban, according to two people familiar with TikTok’s plans. Abruptly switching off the app, rather than allowing people who have already downloaded it to continue using it, will bring home the impact of the ban to all TikTok’s users.
Under the plan, people attempting to open the TikTok app will instead see a pop-up message directing them to a website with inform
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Russia's central bank hiked rates to 21% late last year in a bid to cool soaring inflation. Read more ›
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Users are exploring RedNote and Lemon8 as TikTok ban looms. RedNote, with over 300 million users, has emerged as a leading choice. In just a couple of days, the United States will decide whether to officially ban TikTok. As the clock counts down, TikTok users are finding creative ways to resist the impending ban, and... Read more » Read more ›
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Did it really just take a proper IP rating? Probably not, but it's still a major upgrade. Read more ›
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Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen nearly 50 years ago. Here's a history of the company's leadership, products, layoffs, and more. Read more ›
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The actor's legal team is demanding all records related to the creation of 'Nicepool' in Deadpool & Wolverine, believing the character to be a slight against Baldoni. Read more ›
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We already knew Baldur's Gate 3 players loved mods, thanks to developer Larian previous announcements on the matter, but it turns out Baldur's Gate 3 players really love mods - with the studio now revealing over 100m mods have been downloaded for the acclaimed RPG. And what better way to celebrate that impressive milestone, you might be asking yourself, than by giving PC, Mac, and console players an officially curated... Read more ›
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg starts another year by focusing even more on efficiency. This time, he's targeting low-performing employees. Read more ›
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Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to lead DoD, said troops will get back what "they lost because they were forced out due to an experimental vaccine." Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg wants more masculine energy at the social companies run by Meta. But his products are used by more women than men. Why is that? Read more ›
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A high school student has created a Doom port that runs inside a PDF file. DoomPDF was inspired by the recent release of Pdftris – Tetris in a PDF. Read more ›
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Photo by Anna Barclay/Getty Images For over a decade, you couldn’t easily fly a DJI drone over restricted areas in the United States. DJI’s software would automatically stop you from flying over runways, power plants, public emergencies like wildfires, and the White House. But confusingly, amidst the greatest US outpouring of drone distrust in years, and an incident of a DJI drone operator hindering LA wildfire fighting efforts, DJI is... Read more ›
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Meta's annual performance-based job cuts strategy aims to boost employee standards, increase non-regrettable attrition, and remove lowest performers. Read more ›
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Laura Normand / The Verge Chinese officials are reportedly exploring a backup plan for TikTok after the Supreme Court appeared unlikely to save it from a US ban. With TikTok’s legal options nearly exhausted, multiple news outlets are reporting that China is considering an option it previously said it wouldn’t: letting ByteDance sell the app. The kicker? China is reportedly mulling having President-elect Donald Trump’s favorite tech billionaire, Elon Musk,... Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg said Meta plans to make more extensive performance-based cuts." Staff have questioned how they will work in practice. Read more ›
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The SEC has sued Elon Musk for allegedly failing to disclose his purchase of Twitter stocks within the legally required timeframe. Read more ›
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Trump said his new "external revenue service" will go into effect on January 20 to help the US collect more revenue from foreign countries. Read more ›
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Following the launch of last year's well-received Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars remaster, developer Revolution Software has teased a similar "reforged" treatment for the beloved point-and-click adventure's 1997 sequel, Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror. Read more Read more ›
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Sonos is continuing to clean house as the company recovers from the hits it took following a disastrous mobile app redesign last year. Just a day after CEO Patrick Spence departed the company, chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving. He will act as an advisor to interim CEO Tom Conrad during the leadership transition before fully exiting Sonos. Conrad informed Sonos employees about the latest leadership change in... Read more ›
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Diamond Comics Publishers, which once held a near-monopoly on the distribution of comics in America, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Read more ›
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Today Peter Sarlin, co-founder and CEO of Silo.ai, Europe’s leading private AI lab, announced a substantial donation to strengthen AI research in Finland, funding 13 professorships across Finnish univ... Read more ›
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Fast-growing human resources and payroll startup Deel has been dragged into a dispute involving a Florida Ponzi scheme, in the latest legal action connecting the firm to fraudulent or illegal movement of money. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida last week, Deel was accused of transferring money for a Ponzi operation the Securities and Exchange Commission says ripped off elderly church members. The complaint, filed by the... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ announcement last week that it had relaxed its content moderation stance immediately raised the question of whether others, such as OpenAI, would follow suit.When I asked Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, about that during an interview on Friday, he pointed me to a new broad-ranging policy proposal from the startup—released publicly on Monday morning. Lehane highlighted a section on users being able to personalize AI tools.... Read more ›
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The business world is watching to see whether the Supreme Court—or possibly Donald Trump—saves TikTok. But another man may be more important to the app’s fate: Zhang Yiming, the elusive founder of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. Zhang holds supervoting shares that give him effective control over ByteDance and its businesses, according to investors and former executives, even though he doesn’t sit on the board of the company. That means he... Read more ›
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The Information is pleased to announce that Ken Brown is joining The Information as senior finance editor. Ken’s name is synonymous with in-depth financial reporting about the biggest business stories of our time. As an editor at the Wall Street Journal, he has overseen investigative teams devoted to breaking news on financial scams, corporate bad behavior, private equity and cryptocurrency. As Money & Investing editor, he oversaw the Journal’s coverage... Read more ›
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Well that didn’t take long! We’re barely a week into the new year and already we’ve reported that Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new funding at a $60 billion post-investment valuation. Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that’s also backed rival AI developers including Mistral, Stability AI and Cartesia, is set to lead the deal.That valuation is not cheap, even by AI standards. Anthropic recently... Read more ›
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Some of Nvidia’s biggest customers are facing new delays in getting its most advanced artificial intelligence chips up and running in data centers. The first shipments of racks equipped with Nvidia’s newest chips, Blackwell, have been plagued by overheating as well as glitches involving the way the chips connect to one another, according to three people working at suppliers and two customers that have dealt with the issues. These kinds... Read more ›
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Employees of Meta Platforms and European regulators criticized changes to the company’s content policies announced Tuesday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta would end its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S., take less action on content that might violate its policies and recommend more ... Read more ›
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Bluesky, an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, is in talks to raise money at a $700 million valuation in a round led by Bain Capital Ventures, Business Insider reported. The new funding, if completed, would follow a jump in users after Musk successfully campaigned for Donald Trump in last year’s ... Read more ›
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Amazon is ending a service that allowed Prime members to order clothing, try it on and decide whether or not they want to keep it before being charged for the goods. The service, Prime Try Before You Buy, will end on Jan. 31, according to notices Amazon has sent U.S. users. Amazon, which ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A casual sex website with an underage sex problem• Power and Influence: DOGE goes headhunting • The Top 5: Where to travel after Davos • Plus: When a corporate marvel may be a communist spy ring; piecing together “Severance”; and an uncomfortable masterpieceA couple years ago, Donald Trump was banned from Facebook, and just a few months ago, he was threatening to... Read more ›
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