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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
TikTok says it's restoring its service in the US after reaching an “agreement with our service providers” and thanks Trump “for providing the necessary clarity” — The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …
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| Avery Lotz / Axios: |
Donald Trump says he will sign an EO on Monday to delay enforcing the TikTok ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership — President-elect Trump said he will sign an executive order Monday to delay enforcing the U.S. ban on TikTok, just hours after the popular app went dark,
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
In a rare move, Apple publishes a statement and a document listing all ByteDance apps inaccessible in the US alongside TikTok, including Lemon8 and Lark — Amid the TikTok shutdown, in a rare move, Apple published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
TikTok's service providers are risking billions in fines for keeping the app online, as Trump's assurances that it's safe to support TikTok are legally flimsy — Trump seems to want TikTok available for his inauguration on Monday, because “Americans deserve” to see the event.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google Play and Apple's App Store still aren't offering TikTok in the US; Sen. Cotton warns of “ruinous liability”, as Trump says there's “no liability” — TikTok announced on Sunday that it's “in the process of restoring service,” but the app is still unavailable in the App Store and Google Play.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/apple, and r/technology
| Axios: |
Melania Trump launches her own Solana coin, MELANIA, offered by MKT World, a company associated with Melania Trump; TRUMP fell ~36% on the news — It's not clear how many are on the market now. — According to the token's site, the team is only setting aside 35% for themselves …
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| Politico: |
Despite tanking, Trump's memecoin, with a $55B+ market cap, is the 21st most valuable cryptocurrency per CoinGecko; some in crypto call it a “horrible look” — Trump's memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night. Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
More: @realDonaldTrump …, Türkiye Today, Blockhead, Lawyers, Guns & Money, GetTrumpMemes, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Inside Bitcoins, crypto.news, The Capital, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, ZyCrypto, Axios, Decrypt, CoinDesk, and CNBC
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils Edits, a video editing app coming next month on iOS and soon on Android, after CapCut is removed from app stores as part of the divest-or-ban law — Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance's video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple's App Store …
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X: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, and @pitdesi
| Axios: |
Sources: a breakthrough in AI super-agents for complex human tasks may be announced soon; Sam Altman set up a closed-door briefing for US officials on Jan. 30 — - Build from scratch: Imagine telling your agent, “Build me new payment software.” … - Make sense of chaos …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, r/artificial, r/singularity, and r/technology
| David Marchese / New York Times: |
Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more — Philip Montgomery for The New York Times — For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer …
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X: @pmarca, @silvermanjacob, @toddmpitcher, @lldzne, @goldberg_dan, @jzellis, @glenweyl, and @atabarrok
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky launches a custom feed for TikTok-style vertical videos in its mobile app, saying “We had to get in on the video action too” — It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok's services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in the App Store and the Play Store.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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