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After President Biden declined to reassure Apple, Google, and Oracle that they wouldn’t be fined for giving Americans access to TikTok, the app’s hopes now hang on President-elect Trump.
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TikTok has shut down its app for its US users, and Apple and Google have removed the app from app stores. Read more ›
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Apple tonight removed TikTok from the App Store in the U.S., meaning that the app can no longer be freshly installed on iPhones and iPads there. In other countries, the app remains available on the App Store and is fully functional. iPhone and iPad users in the U.S. who already installed TikTok can no longer use the app either as of tonight, as TikTok has made the app "temporarily unavailable."... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok and CapCut are going dark in the US now that the ban-or-divest law passed last year has taken effect. This is despite the Biden administration saying it had already passed enforcement responsibilities on to the Trump administration and calling TikTok’s threat to go offline a “stunt.” But TikTok insisted that without clearer assurances, it has to close up shop in the... Read more ›
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Apple tonight updated its beta testing app TestFlight, seemingly to block U.S. users from accessing the TikTok beta on the iPhone and other devices. The update adds this fine print to the app, according to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris:Apple may use the IP address of your internet connection to approximate your location in order to determine whether certain beta apps that are subject to legal restrictions in some regions can... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge With TikTok, CapCut, and Marvel Snap shut down in the US, Apple has taken the unusual step of articulating why it’s following the law banning ByteDance apps and removing them from the App Stores for the Mac, iPhone, and other devices. Before the ban went into effect, the Biden administration released a statement saying enforcement of the law “must fall to the next Administration.”... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok says it is officially going dark in the United States now that a federal ban of the app is going into effect. Around 6 PM Pacific time, the app began notifying people in the US, including Verge staffers, with a message that says the ban will “make our services temporarily unavailable.” The company warned on Friday that it would be forced... Read more ›
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Lemon8, CapCut, and Gauth are among the other victims of the US ban on ByteDance-owned apps. Read more ›
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Donald Trump earlier said he was likely to give Chinese-owned video app an extension to avoid ban Read more ›
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Marvel Snap is unavailable due to the ban on ByteDance apps. | Screenshot: Marvel Snap The divest-or-ban law aimed at TikTok is also taking down other ByteDance-linked apps, including the popular card game Marvel Snap. The app suddenly cut off access Saturday night, seemingly without warning, surprising gamers who weren’t aware of its connection to ByteDance. The card game battler set in the Marvel universe is developed by Second Dinner,... Read more ›
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The switch has flipped on the TikTok ban. TikTok's app stoped working and was removed from the App Store and Google Play on Saturday night just hours before the January 19, ban was set to take effect. People who have previously installed the app were instead greeted with a pop-up. "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now," it says. "A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that... Read more ›
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The last scroll for US users of TikTok is nearing, and everyone from content creators to major companies are posting their final goodbyes. Read more ›
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Had things gone differently, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew would've featured a new Jedi that played a pivotal role in Jod Nawood's development. Read more ›
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EA is ending support for the 32-bit Origin app just as Microsoft is ending support for the 32-bit Windows operating system. Read more ›
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Thandiwe Newton and Steve Zahn are among the actors joining Jack Black and Paul Rudd in Sony's Anaconda reboot. Read more ›
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A new UEFI flaw has been discovered that enables attackers to infect motherboard firmware, staying hidden from operating system security systems. Read more ›
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Before Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX hits TV later in 2025, Gkids is bringing the mecha anime's theatrical cut to North America in February. Read more ›
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TikTok is now unavailable in the United States—and getting around the ban isn't as simple as using a VPN. Here's what you need to know. Read more ›
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After years on Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four at Marvel, Dan Slott's now taking on Superman over at DC. Read more ›
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Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely. Read more ›
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White supremacists and MAGA livestreamers are using the wildfires to solicit donations, juice social media engagement, and recruit new followers. Read more ›
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A breach of AT&T that exposed “nearly all” of the company's customers may have included records related to confidential FBI sources, potentially explaining the Bureau's new embrace of end-to-end encryption. Read more ›
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Signals from the global navigation satellite system can be jammed and spoofed, so a Google spinout is working on an alternative positioning and navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field. Read more ›
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The Meta CEO is abandoning his commitment to the truth in favor of a Trump-style playbook. Read more ›
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As the US faces “the worst telecommunications hack in our nation’s history,” by China’s Salt Typhoon hackers, the outgoing FCC chair is determined to bolster network security if it’s the last thing she does. Read more ›
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How SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son convinced Steve Jobs to make the deal of the century. Read more ›
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The holders of the vast majority of the world’s wealth? Men. So many men—from Trump and Musk and Putin to every CEO, crypto schmo, and solar bro in between. Read more ›
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The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences. Read more ›
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It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms. Read more ›
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