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TikTok plans to use proceeds from its IPO for the $5 billion grant, a person familiar with the matter said. ByteDance first heard about education fund payment from news reports.

FAA and Boeing should do more to prohibit faulty readings from the sensor implicated in both crashes and improve the plane’s warning systems.

The United States District Court in San Francisco said the plaintiffs, a group of WeChat users, had shown there are serious questions related to their First Amendment claim.

Cybercriminals hit a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany, with so-called ransomware, in which hackers encrypt data and hold it hostage until the victim pays a ransom.

US sent letters to companies Tencent has invested in, including Fortnite maker Epic Games and League of Legends developer Riot Games, asking about security protocols for American users' data

The deal, which must still gain formal U.S. approval, would create a new U.S.-based company, TikTok Global, in which Oracle, an American software maker, and Walmart would own 20 percent, placing more equity in the service into the hands of American companies and investors.

Amazon agreed to buy Zoox in June to bolster the e-commerce giant’s ambitions in automated package delivery and ride-hailing.

Pre-pandemic, Palantir had been spending lavishly to fly its forward-deployed engineers, who serve as low-pressure salespeople, to pitch clients.

Dimokratia published the headline on its front page on Friday, prompting the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon the Greek ambassador.

Last month Morgan Stanley said it expects Ferrari sales to double by 2030 to over 20,000, and double again by 2040 to 40,000.

Beating the smartphone as the first device with Apple’s new A14 ARM-based processor. Samuel Axon and Jim Salter report for Ars Technica.

A group of highly influential TikTokers from around the country, with followers in the millions, demonstrate that the platform is more than cringy video for and by teenagers.

Washington is worried that the personal data of the many millions of Americans using the app could be siphoned off to China and misused.

Iranian hackers, most likely employees or affiliates of the government, have been running a vast cyberespionage operation equipped with surveillance tools that can outsmart encrypted.

Facebook, according to the company’s own investigation, is home to thousands of QAnon groups and pages with millions of members and followers. Its recommendation algorithms push users to engage with QAnon content.

TikTok is a video-sharing app. Users can post up to a minute of video and have access to a huge database of songs and filters.

Trump has provided until November 12 for the national security concerns posed by TikTok to be resolved. If they are, the prohibitions in this order may be lifted.

U.S. Chamber of Congress, which has praised Chinese measures to protect intellectual property, including in online sales and drug patents.

TikTok proposed the Treasury Department would enable us to continue supporting our community of 100 million people in the U.S. who love TikTok for connection and entertainment.

Even if you still don’t care about what’s happening with TikTok, you should be worried about what could be next.