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TikTok goes dark for US users, company pins hope on Trump
By David Shepardson Reuters TikTok stopped working in the United States late on Saturday and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ...Brazil blocks Musk’s X after company refuses to name local representative amid feud with judge
By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and MAURICIO SAVARESE, Associated Press Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it ...Bangladesh blocks roads and internet, deploys army to curb protests
BY JULHAS ALAM and SHEIKH SAALIQ, Associated Press Police imposed a strict curfew with a “shoot-on-sight” order across Bangladesh as military forces ...Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits media, financial, telecoms
BY CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and ELAINE KURTENBACH AP A widespread Microsoft outage was disrupting flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world ...Meta takes aim at Twitter with Threads app, millions join
Meta Platforms (META.O) on Wednesday launched a direct challenge to Twitter with Threads, garnering millions of users in hours as it sought to take ...Google to delete inactive accounts starting December
Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday said it would delete accounts that had remained unused for two years starting December, in a bid to ...Google unveils ChatGPT rival Bard, AI search plans in battle with Microsoft
Google owner Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) on Monday said it will launch a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence for its search engine as well ...Missing radioactive capsule found in Western Australia
Australian authorities on Wednesday found a radioactive capsule that was lost in the vast Outback after nearly a week-long search along a ...Meta to restore Donald Trump’s Facebook, Instagram accounts
Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said on Wednesday it will restore former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following ...Twitter suspends several journalists, Musk cites ‘doxxing’ of his jet
Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of several prominent journalists who recently wrote about its new owner Elon Musk, with the billionaire ...