Teenager Fatally Shot During ‘Ding Dong Ditch’ TikTok Prank
A Virginia man has been charged with second-degree murder after fatally shooting a teenager who was filming a prank for TikTok known as “ding dong...
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What’s Behind Technology’s Disembodied Female Voices?
And yet, perhaps after simply being confronted with the possibility of Jessie’s demise, I’ve developed a new fondness for her. Jessie doesn’t pretend to be...
TikTok Fined $600 Million for Sending European User Data to China
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday for violating a European Union data privacy law after regulators found the company had improperly...
House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump
The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos and videos of others — including A.I.-generated images...
On TikTok, Chinese Manufacturers Open a New Line in the Trade War
Chinese manufacturers are flooding TikTok and other social media apps with direct appeals to American shoppers, urging people to buy luxury items straight from their...
Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week, with the tech world in chaos over President Trump’s...
How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse
The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao. In the United States,...
How Trump’s TikTok Negotiations Were Upended by China and Tariffs
Last Wednesday, the Trump administration believed it had a plan to save TikTok. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, along with some of its U.S. investors and...
Trump Extends TikTok Deal Deadline, Delaying a Potential Ban
President Trump on Friday granted TikTok another reprieve by announcing that he would extend the deadline for when the popular app had to make a...
How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul
For decades, Larry Ellison reveled in being the Silicon Valley executive who really knew how to have a good time. He spent as much as...