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Source: TikTok will sue the Trump administration over the executive order banning the service, as soon as Tuesday — TikTok is planning to sue the Trump administration, challenging the president's executive order banning the service from the United States.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok — Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
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| New York Times: |
Intelligence agencies don't see TikTok as a major security issue, see the claimed risks as largely theoretical, and view companies like Huawei as larger threats — Even as the White House moves against the Chinese social media app, the intelligence agencies do not see it as a major issue along the lines of Huawei.
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| Washington Post: |
Inside the efforts to sell TikTok as Trump keeps sending contradictory signals, amid shouting matches between Mnuchin and Navarro in the Oval Office — Trump advisers Mnuchin and Navarro fought over TikTok as Silicon Valley dealmakers tried to get closer to Trump
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week's antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the “poison chalice” of the TikTok deal — The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An inside look at Hawkfish, a Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his 2020 campaign, which is still working behind the scenes to help elect Joe Biden — With expensive data and tech heavy hitters, Hawkfish is backing the former mayor's promise to take on Donald Trump.
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Internal docs: Facebook removed “strikes” so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies — Facebook has allowed conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing …
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A presentation that's been circulating around DC shows Qualcomm is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to sell its chips for Huawei's 5G phones — Smartphone chip maker warns of potentially losing billions of dollars in sales because of export limits
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| Elamin Abdelmahmoud / BuzzFeed News: |
Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture — Last week, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan asked a question at a Congressional hearing that seemed to come out of nowhere.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Facebook formally open-sourced Pysa, a static analyzer tool for Python code, which detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side code in H1 2020 — In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code.
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
John Giannandrea and Bob Borchers talk about why Apple is best positioned to “lead the industry” in building machine intelligence-driven features and products — Apple AI chief and ex-Googler John Giannandrea dives into the details with Ars. — Machine learning (ML) … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Reddit says it is investigating after hackers deface more than a dozen subreddits, including some with millions of subscribers, to post pro-Trump messages — Hackers took control and defaced several large subreddits to post pro-Trump content. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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