TikTok Is Already Back Online
Less than 24 hours after going dark, TikTok says it has come back online after President-elect Donald Trump gave the company's service providers—presumably Apple,...
It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too
TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based...
Waymo Finds a Way Around US Restrictions Targeting Chinese Cars
This week, President Joe Biden's outgoing administration finalized rules effectively banning all Chinese- and Russian-connected vehicle tech from American roads—a landmark crackdown with far-reaching...
The Download: how to save social media, and “leftover” embryos
—Eli Pariser & Deepti Doshi Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be ending third-party fact-checking, it was a shocking pivot, but not...
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
At the core of Bluesky’s philosophy is the idea that instead of being centralized in the hands of one person or institution, social media...
Deciding the fate of “leftover” embryos
No one knows for sure how many embryos are frozen in storage tanks, but the figure is thought to be somewhere between 1 million...
RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of...
The Download: what’s next for Neuralink, and Meta’s language translation AI
In November, a young man named Noland Arbaugh announced he’d be livestreaming from his home for three days straight. His broadcast was in some...
The FTC Suing John Deere Is a Tipping Point for Right-to-Repair
Today, the US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against farming equipment manufacturer Deere & Company—makers of the iconic green John Deere tractors, harvesters,...
Meta’s new AI model can translate speech from more than 100 languages
“Meta has done a great job having a breadth of different things they support, like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, even automatic speech recognition,” says Chetan Jaiswal,...
