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      I live in an uninhabitable ‘boy room’ – can a comedian save me from myself?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 10:00

    Rachel Coster’s TikTok show, which documents the extremely messy dwelling spaces of New York’s young men, has clearly struck a nerve

    Snowboarding boots on the kitchen table. A steering wheel in the bedroom. And clothes absolutely everywhere, with no system to determine which, if any, are clean.

    These are just a few of the sights that indicate you’re in a boy room. It’s a bedroom with no form and little function, inhabited by an adult male who doesn’t think much about either concept. The decor, if you can call it that, generally consists of arbitrary trinkets – a favorite old skateboard on the wall, a handful of childhood action figures on the windowsill. The floor is often difficult to see thanks to the density of piled-up sneakers or trash. The best you can say for the furniture is that there might be some; otherwise the resident sleeps on a bare mattress set directly on the floor, with a single pillow and a coverless duvet insert.

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      Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 07:47


    Officials say unidentified man killed influencer who had previously been imprisoned over dancing videos

    A man on a motorbike has shot dead a social media influencer known as Om Fahad outside her Baghdad home, Iraqi security officials said.

    The unidentified attacker shot Om Fahad in her car in the Zayouna district on Friday, a security official said, requesting anonymity because he was not cleared to speak to the media.

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      ByteDance would shut down TikTok in US rather than sell it, sources say

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 23:32

    App’s ‘secret source’ algorithm reportedly core to operations of parent company, which sources say make a sale highly unlikely

    ByteDance would prefer to shut down TikTok rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the US, four sources said.

    The algorithms TikTok relies on for its operations are deemed core to ByteDance’s overall operations, which would make a sale of the app with algorithms highly unlikely, said the sources close to the parent.

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      Panique chez TikTok, Joe Biden signe une loi pour interdire l’application

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 7 days ago - 16:10

    Tiktok App Smartphone

    Le président américain Joe Biden a signé ce jeudi un texte qui pourrait conduire à une interdiction de TikTok. L'avenir du réseau social aux États-Unis est plus menacé que jamais.
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      TikTok ne vous payera plus dans TikTok Lite

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 7 days ago - 15:30

    Sous pression de l'Union européenne, TikTok renonce au système de récompenses de TikTok Lite, jugé trop addictif et dangereux pour la santé mentale des enfants. La fonction va disparaître en France et en Espagne.

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      Qui pourrait racheter TikTok, menacé d’interdiction aux États-Unis ?

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 22 April - 14:54

    La disparition de TikTok aux USA approche-t-elle ? Après des années de menaces et plusieurs tentatives infructueuses, la chambre des représentants a finalement voté une loi obligeant TikTok à se vendre, sous peine d'être interdite. Des prétendants au rachat se sont manifestés, mais beaucoup d'inconnus persistent.

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      L’Union européenne pourrait interdire TikTok Lite cette semaine

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 22 April - 14:31

    L'application TikTok Lite, qui rémunère les utilisateurs en échange du temps qu'ils passent dans l'application, pourrait être bloquée dès le jeudi 25 avril. L'Union européenne veut que ByteDance supprime son système de récompenses rémunérées.

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      TikTok ready to “move to the courts” to prevent ban in US

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 22 April - 13:38

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    TikTok is gearing up for a long legal battle to fight legislation in the US that threatens to ban the app in its largest market if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, refuses to sell the viral video platform.

    The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed a package of national security bills that included legislation that would result in TikTok being banned in the country if Chinese parent company ByteDance does not divest the app.

    Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s public policy head in the US, told staff in response that if the bill became law, the company would “move to the courts for a legal challenge.”

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