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    How to protect yourself from scams: six easy ways to stay safe

    By Rupert Jones

    February 5, 2025

    Lots of scams start with a call, message or email to your mobile phone. Illustration: Jamie Wignall/The Guardian
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    ‘16 seconds’: Obscene truth about Google

    Despite a landmark decision after a potentially crippling court battle, one thing still remains clear about the world’s most powerful tech giant.

    By Alex Blair

    February 2, 2025

    The relatively rapid transition from a world run on ink and paper to having a CaPicture: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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    DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley

    By Editors Desk

    February 2, 2025

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    DeepSeek’s Rise Lays Bare Nvidia Weakness

    A new Chinese AI model threatens to diminish the need for Nvidia’s most-expensive chips, but some say the concerns are overblown

    By Editors Desk

    January 29, 2025

    Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at a trade show in Taiwan last year. PHOTO: RITCHIE B TONGO/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK
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    DeepSeek AI chatbot bursts onto the scene—is the US losing its tech edge to China?

    By Eric Revell

    January 28, 2025

    DeepSeek's AI chatbot blocked questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party, a FOX Business review found. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images / Getty Images)
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    Trump drops announcement on TikTok’s fate and America’s digital future

    By Editors Desk

    January 28, 2025

    President Trump announces formation of Stargate project
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    Instagram rolls out TikTok-like features amid uncertainty about rival’s future

    By Clare Duffy

    January 19, 2025

    Instagram has rolled out features similar to those on TikTok in an apparent bid to grab users during the rival app's shutdown. Silas Stein/dpa/picture-alliance/Sipa/File
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    TikTok is back online after Trump pledged to restore it

    The president-elect unveiled plans for a Day One executive order to save TikTok from a ban, which is immediately raising a host of legal questions.

    By Clare Duffy and David Goldman,

    January 19, 2025

    “I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark!” said President-elect Donald Trump. | Matt Rourke/AP
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    ‘Banned’: TikTok goes down for 170m users

    TikTok has been banned — for now. The popular app went dark for 170 million US users on Saturday, sparking outrage online.

    By Thomas Barrabi — NY Post

    January 19, 2025

    Incoming President Donald Trump has vowed to work on a solution. Picture: Chris Delmas/AFP
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    TikTok stops working for U.S. users, vanishes from Google and Apple app stores

    The app posted a notice to users trying to use it around 10:45 p.m. ET

    By Editors Desk

    January 19, 2025

    TikTok sent a message to its U.S. users on Saturday, saying they were "fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office." (Mike Blake/Reuters)
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    TikTok ban falls hard on Apple and Google

    By Editors Desk

    January 18, 2025

    The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law forcing TikTok to be sold from Beijing-based ByteDance or banned in the U.S. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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    TikTok creators post farewell videos to their fans ahead of expected U.S. ban P

    By Salvador Rodriguez

    January 18, 2025

    Dado Ruvic | Reuters
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    TikTok’s time is up. Can Donald Trump save it?

    The imperilled app hopes for help from an old foe

    By Editors Desk

    January 18, 2025

    Photograph: Imagn
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    TikTok Says It Will Go Dark Sunday In U.S. Without More Clarity From Biden Administration, DOJ

    By Editors Desk

    January 17, 2025

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    TikTok is set to be banned Sunday. Here’s what it means for you

    By Clare Duffy

    January 17, 2025

    Americans may lose access to TikTok starting on Sunday, when a sell-or-ban law is set to take effect. Brook Joyner/CNN
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    Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok in the U.S., leaving the matter to Trump

    By Maureen Groppe USA TODAY

    January 17, 2025

    U.S., Chinese flags, TikTok logo and gavel are seen in this illustration taken January 8, 2025. Dado Ruvic, REUTERS
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    As US TikTok users move to RedNote, some are encountering Chinese-style censorship for the first time

    TikTok users flocking to different Chinese app named after Mao's red book

    By Eric Cheung

    January 17, 2025

    One American user on RedNote, who identified themselves as 'non-binary,' was censored after publishing a post on Tuesday asking if the platform welcomed gay people. CNN
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    Americans and Chinese share jokes on 'alternative TikTok' as US ban looms

    By Editors Desk

    January 17, 2025

    Getty Images Thousands of TikTok users have migrated to popular Chinese social media app RedNote
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    TikTok Plans ‘Immediate’ Shutdown of App in U.S. on Jan. 19 if Supreme Court Doesn’t Block Ban: Reports

    By By Todd Spangler

    January 16, 2025

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    170 million abandoned as app ‘goes dark’

    More than 170 million TikTok users are likely to be met with an unexpected statement when they open the app this weekend.

    By Editors Desk

    January 16, 2025

    TikTok faces an imminent shutdown in the United States after Congress passed a law last year forcing its Chinese owner ByteDance to either sell the platform or close it by this January 19. (Photo by Antonin UTZ / AFP)
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