Game over for ByteDance's big video game studio dream? TikTok parent reportedly gives hundreds the tintack Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 1
Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet Legal28 Sep 2023 | 4
As TikTok surveils staff's office hours, research indicates WFH is good for planet Not leaving home for work cuts an individual's carbon footprint by 54%, says research On-Prem20 Sep 2023 | 60
Irish watchdog fines TikTok €345M for mishandling kids' data Tok is Tiking for app to bring processing into compliance within 3 months Networks15 Sep 2023 | 6
If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea Updated You're just giving manufacturers carte blanche to profit off personal data Security07 Sep 2023 | 133
Microsoft DNS boo-boo breaks Hotmail for users around the globe Infosec in brief ALSO: NYC says kthxbye to TikTok, slain Microsoft exec's wife indicted, and some ASAP patch warnings Security21 Aug 2023 | 11
Tokkers can Tok like Tweeters can Tweet – for now Scavenging for disgruntled former Twitter users? Fellow vulture, we honor thee. Applications25 Jul 2023 | 14
Guess who's quietly bankrolling a legal fight against Montana's TikTok ban. Why yes, it's TikTok Psst, some American user data still stored in China, too Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 11
US govt now bans TikTok from contractors' work gear BYODALAINGTI (as long as it's not got TikTok installed) CSO06 Jun 2023 | 11
TikTok to let Oracle view source code, algorithm, and content moderation It's all in the name of national security as Trump-era collab continues in Project Texas Security23 May 2023 | 11
In a stand against authoritarianism, Montana bans TikTok downloads Updated Dare we say, Broke App Mountain ... and yes, we know that was Wyoming Personal Tech18 May 2023 | 41
Brits start 'em young with 20% of tots 'owning' a smartphone And what are they doing with them? YouTube, lots of YouTube Personal Tech17 Apr 2023 | 41
UK data watchdog fines TikTok £12.7M for failing to protect kids Some 1.4 million under-13s used the app in 2020 by the ICO's estimates Security04 Apr 2023 | 10
Australia takes its turn to kick TikTok off government kit Even a politician who visited China last week has binned the app Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 6
TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on? Register Kettle Our vultures who cover the news weigh in Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 45
SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 18
US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse' It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce Defense Tech Week29 Mar 2023 | 30
Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity 'Our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos' Energy Efficient Datacenters28 Mar 2023 | 41
France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 42
BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team Security20 Mar 2023 | 69
TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls Security19 Mar 2023 | 19
UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears Gov staff using it on personal mobes just fine... it's not like ministers use WhatsApp etc for business ... oh wait Security16 Mar 2023 | 45
Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts 'We're looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus' – which increasingly means staving off TikTok Software14 Mar 2023 | 14
Dems, Repubs eye up ban on chat apps they don't like Clock is ticking for TikTok and other foreign natter-ware Security09 Mar 2023 | 14
Once AI can create endless viral videos, good luck switching off social media Column Imagine humans … watching humans …watching TikTok … forever AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 57
US government sets a 30-day deadline for wiping TikTok from feds' phones Last chance to film yourself doing a ByteDance, in the US and abroad Security01 Mar 2023 | 14
European Commission bans TikTok from staff gadgets Cyber Europe cyber worried about cyber threats, doesn't cyber use the other C word (China) CSO24 Feb 2023 | 23
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics Cue the dawning realization for thousands of content creators Offbeat20 Feb 2023 | 190
Hyundai and Kia issue software upgrades to thwart killer TikTok car theft hack Gone in 60 seconds using a USB-A plug and brute force instead of a key Patches15 Feb 2023 | 55
University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work Security19 Jan 2023 | 27
Asia rules the mobile world: more users, more often, generating more cash Chinese developers are cashing in as the region buys in to TikTok and games Personal Tech16 Jan 2023 | 3
US House boots TikTok from government phones ByteDance ban for federal devices awaits Biden’s signature Security28 Dec 2022 | 13
TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation As if you needed another reason to delete the app right now Networks23 Dec 2022 | 32
TikTok could be banned from America, thanks to proposed bipartisan bill If you listen really closely, you can hear Mark Zuckerberg's excitement Security14 Dec 2022 | 27
States label TikTok 'a malicious and menacing threat' Texas bucks app off government devices as Indiana takes social media biz to court Security08 Dec 2022 | 23
Taiwan bans state-owned devices from running Chinese platform TikTok US FCC Commissioner praises Taiwan’s security decision as US state governments follow suit Security07 Dec 2022 | 15
Facebook approved 75% of ads threatening US election workers Not a good look for Meta's content moderation team Personal Tech02 Dec 2022 | 30
TikTok NSFW if you work for the South Dakota government Governor bans platform and website from all state-owned devices that can connect to the internet Security30 Nov 2022 | 23
Criminals use trending TikTok challenge to make data-stealing malware invisible PSA: Don't download unknown apps even if they promise naked people Security29 Nov 2022 | 7
TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 17
FYI: TikTok tracking pixels can be found all over the web – just like Meta, Google Updated Don't have a TT account? Doesn't matter! Personal Tech03 Oct 2022 | 24
TikTok faces $29m fine for 'failing to protect UK kids' privacy' We're pulling in billions, let me check down the back of the sofa Personal Tech26 Sep 2022 | 5
Afghanistan’s Taliban government bans TikTok First-person shooter PUBG also barred for corrupting the young Personal Tech21 Sep 2022 | 9
NATO investigates after criminals claim to be selling its stolen missile plans In brief Also, Microsoft’s one-click TikTok trick, a 14-year old Aussie cracks ASD encryption in an hour, and more Security05 Sep 2022 | 16
TikTok wants your trust around US midterm elections data Misinformation's a concern, but Chinese media giant's own data privacy practices also have people worried CSO17 Aug 2022 | 4
China's internet regulator details algorithms used by local Big Tech players Beijing lifts the lid on how Alibaba, Douyin, Tencent, Baidu do business – and censor content Software15 Aug 2022 | 5
UK Parliament bins its TikTok account over China surveillance fears Plan to educate the children turned out to be a 'won't someone think of the children?' moment Security04 Aug 2022 | 43
TikTok's chief security officer steps aside, thanks to Oracle move Takes up advisory role that might leave time to play with parent company's homebrew cloudy SmartNICs CSO18 Jul 2022 |
TikTok US traffic defaults to Oracle Cloud, Beijing can (allegedly) still have a look Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year Legal20 Jun 2022 | 9
TikTok under investigation in US over harms to children Probe builds on one already in process for Instagram Security04 Mar 2022 | 15
Siri: Who's first to offer voice search on Chinese TikTok? ByteDance's Douyin strikes up a conversation with Apple's digital assistant AI + ML09 Feb 2022 | 2
TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings Other Chinese properties also doing very well Off-Prem21 Dec 2021 | 8
China lists 100 topics citizens can't include in online vids No crypto, no sex, no clips from the telly. Enthusiastic and historically accurate socialism welcome Legal17 Dec 2021 | 29
ByteDance launches a raft of public cloud services Volcano Engine adds plenty of the IaaS and SaaS you'd expect from a hyperscaler Off-Prem03 Dec 2021 | 2
Punchy Biden-lookalike grandad goes viral for fighting boxing gadget 'If you don't get your timing right you get whacked round the back of the head' admits scrappy octogenarian Bootnotes17 Sep 2021 | 14
Pakistan bans TikTok, for the fourth time Previous bans were imposed for nasty content, then lifted after promises of proper moderation. And here we are again Legal21 Jul 2021 | 3
Chinese AI censors live-streamed Alpacas – beasts with a very NSFW and political back story Be alert, not a-llam-ed Offbeat14 May 2021 | 16
TikTok no worse than Facebook for privacy, says Citizen Lab (although Chinese TikTok is a horror) App has common code base for three versions: one global edition; one for south-east Asian; one for China Security23 Mar 2021 | 18
TikTok to cough up $92m to settle data privacy sueballs over harvesting too much data Or about five days of annual operating profit Personal Tech27 Feb 2021 | 6
Biden administration pauses pursuit of TikTok and WeChat Chinese New Year gift for Beijing, maybe for Oracle too Personal Tech12 Feb 2021 | 14
ByteDance sues Tencent over lack of link love on its messaging services Is there anywhere in the world TikTok isn’t in trouble? Personal Tech03 Feb 2021 | 4
India makes China app ban permanent, forces TikTok to hose out local office But China's Xiaomi again tops booming smartphone market which just hit record of 100m sales in six months Personal Tech28 Jan 2021 | 4