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Trump signs an EO that pauses the TikTok ban for 75 days to give ByteDance more time to reach a deal and provides a “liability shield” to TikTok's providers — President Trump signed an executive order on Monday seeking to hit pause on a law banning TikTok and to provide …
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Forums: r/law and r/MarvelSnap
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Card game Marvel Snap, published by ByteDance-owned Nuverse, is back online in the US and plans to “partner with a new publisher” to prevent future bans — Marvel Snap is back online in the US after access was cut off Saturday night due to the law that banned TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps.
More: Engadget, PC Gamer, and Dexerto
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying that it would block any forced sale of TikTok — Founder of app's parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year — SINGAPORE—China suggested it was willing … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Trump revokes a 2023 executive order signed by Biden that sought to reduce the risks that AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed model that does well with math, code, and reasoning tasks, alongside other open and distilled models — DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Politico: |
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look” — Trump's memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night. Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.
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| Alan Suderman / Associated Press: |
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| Axios: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Trump signs an EO renaming the US Digital Service to the US DOGE Service, directing agency heads to form “DOGE Teams” of at least four members within 30 days — The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory commission spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk recommending deep cuts …
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Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online and @TomSellers@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/politics, r/politics, and r/fednews
| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
During a speech following Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk delivered what many saw as two “Nazi salutes” — The billionaire Tesla CEO has a history of racist comments. … Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes at a rally held at Capitol One Arena on Monday …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, r/pics, r/MurderedByWords, r/politics, r/interestingasfuck, r/politics, r/interestingasfuck, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/millenials, r/ParlerWatch, r/politics, r/europe, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/RealTesla, r/gifs, r/centrist, r/CivPolitics, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Huawei plans to challenge Nvidia in China's AI chip market by positioning its latest Ascend AI processors as the hardware of choice for “inference” tasks — Tech giant pushes its artificial intelligence chips as hardware of choice for ‘inference’ tasks
More: Radio Free Mobile, Cryptopolitan, and Huawei Central
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Trump signs an EO to end “federal censorship” of online platforms, and directs the AG to probe if the Biden admin engaged in censorship of Americans' views — President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to stop “government censorship,” a sweeping action …
More: The White House, The Center Square, The Register, The Verge, and Raw Story
Bluesky: @alanrozenshtein.com, @rgoodlaw, @rcmacleod, and @rgoodlaw
X: @jackmjenkins, @shellenberger, @shellenberger, and @mattjcan
| The Information: |
Source: Meta is offering creators with large TikTok followings bonuses ranging from $10K to $50K/month to post videos on Instagram Reels before other platforms — Instagram isn't letting a good TikTok crisis go to waste. — Representatives for the Meta Platforms-owned app in the last week … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Jan. 17 filing: the US NHTSA said it “upgraded” its April 2024 probe into Ford's BlueCruise, a driver assistance system that was active during two fatal crashes — A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford's hands-free advanced driver assistance system known …
More: The US NHTSA, auto123.com, Ford Authority, and Carscoops
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