TikTok Drama, Meta Fine & Threads Boom
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MAIN CHARACTERTikTok's CEO is schmoozing with Trump to avoid a ban. Talk about strange bedfellows! Shou Zi Chew is set to meet the former prez at Mar-a-Lago as TikTok faces a looming ban-or-divest deadline. Trump, who initially led the charge against TikTok, has done a 180 and even joined the platform. Is this the weirdest political alliance of 2024 or what?
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Meta just got slapped with a €251M fine for a Facebook breach affecting millions. Zuck's probably checking his couch cushions for spare change right about now. The real question: will this actually change anything, or is it just the cost of doing business for tech giants?
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Threads hit 100M daily active users. Zuck's Twitter-killer is alive and kicking! But let's be real - how many of those are just your aunt posting blurry food pics?
- Framework's new laptop expansion bay lets you cram in FOUR SSDs. Storage hoarders, rejoice! Read more
- AWS now renting monster 7,680-vCPU, 128TB RAM servers. For when you absolutely, positively need to run ALL the Chrome tabs. Read more
- Blackmagic's new Apple Vision Pro camera costs a cool $29,995. Because apparently, the future of VR is priced like a luxury car. Read more
If AI can write code, will future developers just be really good at writing prompts? "Hey AI, build me a Twitter clone, but make it run on blockchain and smell like cheese."
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