Barely more than 12 hours after TikTok went dark in the United States, the video-sharing app is coming back online. βIn agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,β the company said in a statement. βWe thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers [β¦]
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TikTok went dark for users in the US on Saturday night, but it may not be gone for long. President-elect Donald Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday morning that he will issue an executive order Monday that will βextend the period of time before the lawβs prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a [β¦]
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TikTok went dark in the U.S. on Saturday night as a result of a federal law that bans the popular short-form video app for millions of Americans. However, the company began restoring service by midday Sunday. TikTok users began receiving a message about the ban around 10:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday evening, and the app [β¦]
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With a TikTok ban looming in the United States, Perplexity AI is the latest bidder hoping to give the video app a new corporate home. CNBC first reported on Perplexityβs interest. A source with knowledge of the offer confirmed to TechCrunch that Perplexity (whose CEO Aravind Srinivas is pictured above) has submitted a bid to [β¦]
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The Federal Trade Commission said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between big tech companies and generative AI developers β specifically, Microsoftβs backing of OpenAI and Amazon and Alphabet/Googleβs partnerships with Anthropic. βThe FTCβs report sheds light on how partnerships by big tech firms can create lock-in, [β¦]
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It remains unclear whether TikTok will still be available in the United States on Sunday, with the company claiming that President Joe Bidenβs outgoing administration needs to offer βdefinitiveβ assurances that it wonβt enforce a ban. On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the US if the appβs [β¦]
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Fire-tracking app Watch Duty has become a crucial source of information for Los Angeles residents threatened by the ongoing wildfires.Β As TechCrunchβs Maxwell Zeff explained, the app relies on a network of active and retired firefighters, first responders, official government reports, and volunteer reporters who monitor radio scanners to offer real-time updates on active wildfires. [β¦]
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Appleβs next major iPhone upgrade will include a new model called the iPhone 17 Air, according to Bloombergβs Mark Gurman. This seems like an obvious way to expand the lineup, given Appleβs success with the Air moniker for thinner MacBooks and iPads (Iβm currently typing these words on my MacBook Air), and could be more [β¦]
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Appleβs board of directors has come out in opposition to a proposal seeking to end the companyβs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.Β In a proxy filing, the company said the National Center for Public Policy Research (a conservative think tank) is submitting a proposal for Apple to βconsider abolishing its Inclusion & Diversity program, [β¦]
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Why does it cost some companies hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a popular video game? A couple weeks ago, The New York Times blamed the never-ending quest to deliver more photo-realistic graphicsβ and it suggested the industry is beginning to see diminishing returns, leading to layoffs and studio closures. However, Bloombergβs Jason Schreier [β¦]
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A new lawsuit alleges that the PayPal-owned browser extension Honey is cheating creators out of money. Honey, which PayPal acquired for $4 billion in 2019, works by automatically presenting users with relevant coupon codes as they shop. However, in a video posted last month, YouTuber MegaLag described Honey as a βscamβ thatβs βstealing money from [β¦]
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After days of speculation that X owner Elon Musk was secretly posting under an account named Adrian Dittman, new evidence suggests Dittman is, in fact, a real person living in Fiji. Attempts to connect Dittman and Musk go back at least to 2023; Dittman frequently makes fawning posts about Musk, and his voice (as heard [β¦]
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Longtime entrepreneur and cybersecurity executive Amit Yoran passed away Friday after a battle with cancer. Cybersecurity company Tenable, where Yoran was CEO and chairman, announced his death in a press release. Before becoming Tenableβs CEO in 2016, he held a number of roles including president of RSA, founding CEO of NetWitness, and CEO of In-Q-Tel. [β¦]
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New York Cityβs congestion pricing is scheduled to take effect Sunday β but for the first month, Lyft said it will be crediting riders who pay the fee. New Yorkβs program, which is supposed to reduce traffic in lower Manhattan while also raising funding for mass transit, was paused by Governor Kathy Hochul in June, [β¦]
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Ah, 2024: the year we debated how to pronounce βhawk tuah,β pondered the health benefits of eating rocks, and held space for a Broadway showstopper. It was a year when the discourse could feel shockingly pure and joyful β at least for a few minutes, before we all came tumbling back down to reality. Online [β¦]
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The proliferation of data centers aiming to meet the computational needs of AI could be bad news for the U.S. power grid, according to a new report in Bloomberg. Using the 1 million residential sensors tracked by Whisker Labs, along with market intelligence data from DC Byte, Bloomberg found that more than half of the [β¦]
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Three crypto industry groups β the DeFi Education Fund, the Blockchain Association, and the Texas Blockchain Council β are suing the Internal Revenue Service to block new regulations that require decentralized finance (DeFi) entities to report customer information. The IRS has been finalizing crypto tax regulations as part of the Biden administrationβs Infrastructure Investment and [β¦]
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told Google employees that 2025 will be a βcriticalβ year for the company. CNBC reports that it obtained audio from a December 18 strategy meeting where Pichai and other executives put on ugly holiday sweaters and laid out their priorities for the coming year. βI think 2025 will be critical,β [β¦]
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Attorneys representing President-elect Donald Trump have asked the Supreme Court to pause a law that would force TikTok-owner ByteDance to sell the short-form video app or see it banned from the United States. If the app isnβt sold, the ban is set to take effect in just a few weeks, on January 19. ByteDance is [β¦]
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Two big defense tech players, Palantir and Anduril, are talking to tech companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic, and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts, according to a report in the Financial Times. The goal, the FT says, is to challenge the dominance of βprimeβ defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, [β¦]
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