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| NBC News: |
Trump says he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve after he takes office on Monday “because it's appropriate” — Trump spoke to NBC News' Kristen Welker in an exclusive phone interview Saturday, discussing his plans on what to do about the popular social media app.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Source: Perplexity AI made a TikTok US bid to ByteDance, proposing a merger that brings video to Perplexity, with ByteDance investors retaining their stakes — Perplexity AI officially made a play for TikTok on Saturday, submitting a bid to its parent company, ByteDance …
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X: @levie, @maxwinebach, and @haydenfield
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| Ana Faguy / BBC: |
The White House says TikTok's threat to shut down is a “stunt” as there is “no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions” before Trump takes office — The White House has said a threat by TikTok to shut down in the US on Sunday unless tech firms get assurances …
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
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| CNN: |
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
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| Financial Times: |
A profile of Charlwin Mao, founder of Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, who claims the name references the color of his university Stanford and ex-employer Bain — A sudden surge of US users on Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, could threaten China's Great Firewall
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| Politico: |
Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of Chinese-owned apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban — The Chinese apps RedNote and Lemon8 have exploded in popularity as TikTok faces an imminent ban and the Supreme Court upheld the law forcing its sale.
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Donald Trump is promoting a Solana memecoin called TRUMP from his social media accounts, with 200M $TRUMP available now and growing to 1B “over three years” — Talk about a Friday night surprise. President-elect Donald Trump's social media accounts shared what appears …
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| Axios: |
CoinGecko: $TRUMP rose more than 600% overnight and was trading at just over $32 as of 11AM ET, giving it a fully diluted market capitalization of $32B+ — - It also speaks to the nature of the crypto industry that someone could have $25 billion worth of something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very few Americans seem concerned that one of the nation's most popular social media apps will disappear — So this may be the way TikTok ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper. — Over the past few weeks, as the Jan. 19 deadline loomed … | Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
TikTok bans in countries around the world have played out quite differently; Instagram Reels largely replaced TikTok in India, following TikTok's ban in 2020 — India's 2020 crackdown helped give rise to Instagram Reels, which has largely replaced it there. But TikTok has proved more resilient elsewhere.
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: |
A close look at some privacy implications of AI interfacing with messaging apps and other E2EE systems, Apple's approach to “Private Cloud Compute”, and more — Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.”
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Forums: Hacker News and r/privacy
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin outlines “large changes” to Ethereum Foundation leadership structure, after fellow Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin called for new EF leadership — - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, in a post on X, said “large changes” to the leadership structure of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) are underway.
More: Crypto Briefing, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Cointelegraph
X: @vitalikbuterin, @owocki, and @vitalikbuterin
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A whistleblower complaint claims Amazon paid $380M for licensing robot maker Covariant's tech and hiring its staff, and the deal merits antitrust scrutiny — Filing details $400 million license for smart robot system and claims retail giant's “reverse acquihire” contract limits competition and merits antitrust scrutiny.
Bluesky: @kostyack and @ceodonovan
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Instagram now lets users upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit, as TikTok is set to go dark on Sunday — Instagram will now let you upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit the platform had in place before, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri announced today.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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