Triller is hiring TikTok's former head of product to run its video app, as its other CEO hire falls through Triller hired former TikTok product head Sean Kim to run its namesake app. It is no longer bringing on former T-Mobile exec Kevin McGurn as CEO. 11/21/2024 - 5:10 am | View Link
TikTok Parent ByteDance Valuation Hits A Whopping $300 Billion TikTok parent company ByteDance is valuing its business at $300 billion, despite the looming ban for TikTok in the United States. The valuation results from a recent buyback offer by ByteDance, ... 11/18/2024 - 5:42 am | View Link
The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called ... 10/25/2024 - 6:47 am | View Link
Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."