This project fromFlorida-based artist Gwak needs to make that horrid beep/buzzing noise when the phone rings for authenticity, but the yellowing and half-peeled sticker is -chef’s kiss-.

One night in the audience of Netflix’s most ambitious live show yet.

A newSensor Tower report suggests the USDS takeover managed to retain most of its users despite abumpy start andconcerns with the new owners:

The average number of TikTok’s daily active users in the US remains around 95% of its usership compared to the week of Jan. 19-25.

Kamala Harris’ campaign account, @KamalaHQ, has rebranded as a digital rapid response operation.

The platformisn’tthefirstservice to try them.

Redfin is doing ageoguessing-themed game of skill to give away a million-dollar house in its app, based on cluesfound in its Super Bowl ad, and Rainbolt ispart of the promo — but he’s not allowed to help, based on therules here.

Meanwhile, Salesforce’s Mr. Beast ad promisesa million-dollar giveaway based on the clues in its30-second ad.

Why you can’t label your way into consensus reality amid the AI deepfake apocalypse.

We can confirm that basic features in the US do seem to work reliably now on the newTrump-friendly entity’s servers, even if the algorithm still seems a little wonky at times. PerTikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC:

We have successfully restored TikTok back to normal after a significant outage caused by winter weather took down a primary US data center site operated by Oracle. The winter storm led to a power outage which caused network and storage issues at the site and impacted tens of thousands of servers that help keep TikTok running in the US.

Great, but how many of ya’ll have abandoned the platform?

Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms.

Without explaining why itscloud status page doesn’t list any outages, TikTok USDS part-owner Oracle outed itself as the previously unnamed “US data center partner” that experienced a power outage over the weekend,blocking videos from publishing and unraveling its all-important algorithmfor a few days.

Michael Egbert, Oracle Spokesperson:

Over the weekend, an Oracle data center experienced a temporary weather-related power outage which impacted TikTok. The challenges U.S. TikTok users may be experiencing are the result of technical issues that followed the power outage, which Oracle and TikTok are working to quickly resolve.

Itfollows Snap in reaching an agreement to resolve the first of several cases slated to go to trial this year about social media’s alleged harm to users, an attorney for the 19-year-old plaintiff confirmed. That leaves Meta and YouTube as defendants in the case going to jury selection today.

TikTok’s US servicecrashed early Sunday morning, and as of late Monday night, it still hasn’t fully recovered.

After finally announcing the problem startedwith a power outage at an unnamed partner’s data center, TikTok USDSfollowed up with an updated statement saying, “While the network has been recovered, the outage caused a cascading systems failure that we’ve been working to resolve together with our data center partner,” and listing some of the bugs users are experiencing. There’s still no ETA for a full fix.

Despite claims floating around social media, the truth is a bit more complicated, not least by the fact that TikTok in the US isstill largely down, about a day and a half after itsdata center power outage problems started.

While tweets fromrandom users, the governor of California, andPopBase claimed TikTok US DMs now censor “Epstein,” testing it from our end showed that its messaging feature bans many innocuous single-word messages, like “test.” Using the convicted sex offender’s name in a sentence, however, goes through unbanned.

Oracle and a group of investors now control TikTok in the US, and promise to retrain the app’s algorithm on US user data. Though TikTok blamessome of the issues users experienced over the weekendon a power outage, many are still concerned abouthow their feed could change.

Whether this is just a regular outage or a result ofthis week’s changes in management, reports tracked onDowndetector andReddit confirm many people are having trouble loadingTikTok right now.

If the mobile app loads, it’s not consistently showing comments or other features, and the algorithm managing the For You page doesn’t feel like it’s working correctly.

Update, January 26th:TikTok isstill having problems in the US, which it says are connected to a data center power outage.

A pair of bipartisan lawmakers introduced the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act in the House, letting copyright holders see if AI models were trained on their work. It’s already been introduced in the Senate, and counts the Recording Industry Association of America and SAG-AFTRA among its endorsers.

[Congresswoman Madeleine Dean]