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TikTok refugees are rushing to Rednote to live under Chinese censorship laws
It’s 2025, the TikTok ban is looming, and American users – who say they love their freedom of speech so much – are flocking to join Rednote, a Chinese app promoting communist values and censoring sensitive topics.
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Cyberstorm rising: China’s aggressive hacking on Taiwan’s infrastructure doubled in 2024
China ramped up its cyberwarfare in 2024, targeting Taiwan with 2.4 million attacks per day – twice as many as last year.
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TikTok getting ready to shut down in US on Sunday, report says
TikTok is preparing to completely shut off its app for US users on Sunday, which is when a federal ban on the platform could come into effect, The Information reports. Unless, of course, the Supreme Court blocks it.
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Musk, Bezos, and Zuck will attend Trump inauguration
New tech buddies Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg will be at the White House on January 20th to witness US President-elect Donald Trump sworn in as the 47th President of the US.
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Cybertrucks donated to help LA fires: heroic act or poor marketing ploy?
Tesla Cybertruck deliveries have stalled in California as the electric vehicles are helping first responders and civilians during the LA wildfires. Some owners commend Musk’s heroic act, while others are calling it a marketing ploy.
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TikTok’s last dance: the ‘spy’ you can’t quit
As TikTok nears its US ban, users are saying goodbye to their “Chinese spy” with a viral farewell. But with new apps on the rise, the party’s far from over.
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Snapchat CEO’s LA childhood home burned to the ground, firm’s employees displaced
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, a native Angeleno, has revealed the impact of the Los Angeles wildfires on his childhood home and what his company is doing to help.
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China might try to sell TikTok to Musk to avoid ban in US
It’s still not clear whether TikTok will be banned in the United States. But China, where the app’s parent company ByteDance is based, has an idea: to sell TikTok to Elon Musk.
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Academics abandoning X en masse, as it’s “incompatible” with fundamental values
While X becomes increasingly more political and radical, academia is cutting ties with Elon Musk’s polarizing algorithms.
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Right-wing collective operating on Telegram designated as global terrorist group
The US Department of State on Monday handed down a global terror designation to an online group of violent white supremacists operating on Telegram, otherwise known as ‘The Terrorgram Collective.’
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Microsoft MFA issue resolved, cause of outage unknown
Microsoft has resolved an outage after users were unable to log into certain Microsoft 365 apps due to issues affecting multi-factor authentication (MFA).
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Britain’s big bet on AI: can it rival OpenAI?
The UK is planning to build a challenger to OpenAI with the aim of becoming a major global player in AI and revolutionizing computer infrastructure.
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Musk-Bannon war elevates to Defcon 1: is it really possible to take down Elon?
Steve Bannon has escalated his fight against Elon Musk once again, calling him “racist” and “truly evil.” But is it even possible for him to dethrone a tech billionaire who’s now extremely close to US President-elect Donald Trump?
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Emergency shutdown as top tech university grapples with cyberattack
The cyberattack has knocked Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) back to the pre-internet era, forcing the university to cancel classes for thousands of students.
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Meta’s fact-checking out, X’s parody labels in
Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) just revealed its plans to add labels to parody accounts to increase transparency and ensure that “users aren’t deceived.”
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AI agents: the new personal assistants or just digital interns on day one?
Imagine a world where your AI assistant plans your vacation, handles your emails, and even learns your quirks — all without a single back-and-forth. Is this future already here? I tested the latest AI agents to find out.
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Breaking down Meta’s community notes: innovation or a digital wild west?
Community notes on Meta: a game-changer for free speech, or just a hot mess in the making?
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Meta used piracy site to train AI models, court documents allege
Meta has allegedly been training its artificial intelligence (AI) models using datasets from an illegal shadow library website.
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EU court fines EU for breaching its own data protection laws
The European General Court has ruled that the European Commission must pay €400 ($412) to a German citizen for illegally transferring his data to the United States.
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Lemon8 steps in as TikTok substitute, but it won’t be as easy to gain followers
Bytedances Lemon8 platform might just be the answer to the potential TikTok ban, but will the switch be sweet, or sour?
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