Intern allegedly messed with ByteDance's LLM training cluster
No losses caused – except the intern's job – says TikTok parent
AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 18
ByteDance
India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more
Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 3
TikTok's Asian e-commerce haul quadrupled in a single year
Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations
Off-Prem17 Jul 2024 | 1
TikTok said to be working on US-specific version of its content algorithm for months
Owner ByteDance may be hedging its bets on overturning sale-or-ban bill
Personal Tech31 May 2024 | 10
Two weeks ago, Alibaba Cloud bragged its AI was soaring. Now it's slashing prices
ByteDance added a cheap service and the market followed it down
AI + ML22 May 2024 | 1
DoJ, ByteDance ask court: Hurry up and rule on TikTok ban already
Forced selloff case will likely be appealed again ... see you in (Supreme) court
Security20 May 2024 | 8
NARROWER TOPICS
ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off
As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts
Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 85
US House goes bang, bang on TikTok sale-or-ban plan
Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks
Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 61
US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban
The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms
Personal Tech07 Mar 2024 | 18
ByteDance slides around Indonesian social commerce ban with $1.5 billion buy
Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community
Legal12 Dec 2023 |
Game over for ByteDance's big video game studio dream?
TikTok parent reportedly gives hundreds the tintack
Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 1
What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting off Europe's stiff antitrust rules
Gatekeeper status under DMA? Don't you know who I am?
Personal Tech17 Nov 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
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
US schools sue Meta, Google and friends over 'youth mental health crisis'
Updated Social media as public nuisance? Seattle may be on to something
Personal Tech10 Jan 2023 | 50
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
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
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
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 |
China's clouds slow server buying – US clouds and Facebook may, too
Hyperscalers have ordered more than they need, and the ripples are nasty
Systems29 Jun 2022 |
China: Our big tech companies are hiring, not shrinking
Please dismiss any thoughts you had that increasing regulation might have hurt the economy
Software11 Apr 2022 | 4
China tells big tech to reveal some customers' income
Livestreamed infomercials are huge, but some creators aren't paying tax
Legal31 Mar 2022 | 13
Three Chinese web giants create streaming video 'standard'
Updated ByteDance, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud team on improvement to WebRTC's startup times
Software11 Mar 2022 | 13
TikTok under investigation in US over harms to children
Probe builds on one already in process for Instagram
Security04 Mar 2022 | 15
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
Tick, tick, tick … TikTok China just limited kids to 40 minutes' use each day
And added a bug bounty program to detect any holes in its 'youth mode'
Security20 Sep 2021 | 25
Biden takes another step to discard Trump-era Chinese social media app ban
Seeks end to TikTok ban appeal, but this by no means ends US/China worries about citizen data
Legal13 Jul 2021 | 8
China hauls in 13 web giants for ‘supervision interviews’
Tencent, ByteDance, pals invited to meeting without coffee over ‘disorderly expansion of capital’
Off-Prem30 Apr 2021 | 17
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
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
Judge strikes down another attempt by President Trump to force a TikTok US sale
Donald-appointed jurist says Uncle Sam 'likely overstepped' authority, 'acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner'
Personal Tech08 Dec 2020 | 25
'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'
That’s China’s view of the Oracle/Walmart TikTok takeover. Now to see if that translates into a ban on the sale
Legal25 Sep 2020 | 34
ByteDance rebuffs Microsoft's TikTok purchase proposal
Updated Redmond wishes good luck to whoever gets to fix TikTok's security and fake news problems - which may be Oracle as a host not an operator
Software14 Sep 2020 | 33
Biting the hand that feeds IT
