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TikTok, Lemon8, and CapCut went dark in January 2025 before a joint venture rewrote the letterhead. The shutdown screen was the law, not a glitch.

The Supreme Court upheld TikTok's sale-or-ban law. ByteDance later kept 19.9 percent and licensed the algorithm to a U.S. joint venture.

Meta opened Community Notes signups in 16 Latin American countries while the Oversight Board says it still has not received the risk criteria.

Treasury told Congress a stolen BeyondTrust remote-support key reached Departmental Offices machines. OFAC later sanctioned Yin Kecheng. Salt Typhoon was a separate campaign.

A Newark indictment unsealed December 23, 2024, charges Junior Barros De Oliveira of Curitiba with threatening to leak about 300,000 customer records unless he was paid about $3.2 million in…

Axon says its report-writing tools have helped produce more than 600,000 police reports. California requires agencies to keep the first machine draft. Axon's retention switch still starts off.

A 2020 complaint by French Uber drivers led the Dutch privacy regulator to fine Uber 10 million, then 290 million, then 824.99 million euros. Uber is appealing the two largest…

French prosecutors still have Pavel Durov under investigation after lifting his travel ban. Russia issued a terrorism warrant in July 2026, and Australia sued Telegram in federal court.

Tomorrow.Bio is commissioning a warmer whole-body storage tank in Switzerland. Alcor and the Cryonics Institute still hold hundreds of patients in liquid nitrogen. No human has been revived.

Engineers in Iraq and Australia matched tongue color to a charted illness in 58 of 60 hospital photos. The result is a light-box flag, not a phone diagnosis.