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It's finally Friday, friends. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I'm pretty tired of the gloomy weather here in San Diego. It's the rainiest start to a year around here for decades. And it's an alarming welcome back to the state.

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A family advocacy group called Parents Together published an open letter Thursday demanding a meeting with the heads of Meta and ByteDance, arguing that the companies knowingly expose children to a variety of dire threats, including the risk of

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Meta could stand to benefit from a TikTok ban.
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TikTok launched "Project Clover" to convince lawmakers data will be safe.
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The fight between the U.S. and China over TikTok reached an inflection point on Wednesday when the Biden administration demanded that ByteDance, the social media app’s Chinese owners, sell off its stakes in the app or get ready for a possible ban.

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A Kia Sportage is shown with three phones blocking it. Inside the phone screens, the car has disappeared, and its outline is shown by a dotted line.
Car thefts are booming thanks to a viral TikTok that exposed a vulnerability in certain Kia and Hyundai models.

How a viral video sparked the theft of hundreds of thousands of cars

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TikTok has become a convenient scapegoat in the US-China tech war.
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The Biden administration is calling on TikTok's owners to sell their stake in the company, the WSJ said.