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As TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, Xiaohonghshu, better known as RedNote in English, is trying to capitalize on its newfound popularity by partnering with US influencers who can help promote the company and bring more Americans onto its platform. The Chinese lifestyle and travel app, which has over 300 million mostly monthly active users, surged to the top of US app store charts last week as the TikTok ban approached.

In a campaign brief obtained by WIRED, Solare Global, a New York City-based marketing agency, pitched creators on making sponsored posts for RedNote, featuring videos of themselves telling their followers about the Chinese app’s sudden rise in the US. The brief asked creators to describe “how fun and engaging the app is” and “emphasize its user-friendly design and international appeal.” It also instructed them to share their own RedNote accounts and encourage their followers to join them on the platform.

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The brief viewed by WIRED required creators to turn their videos around on a 24-hour timeline to ensure they went up by January 17, the same day the Supreme Court was going to decide whether the TikTok ban would go into effect two days later. It also stipulated that influencers must leave their videos up for a minimum of six months.

Xiaohongshu was founded in 2013 and has long mostly focused on courting domestic audiences in China, particularly young women who live in major cities. Like TikTok, it revolves around a central algorithm that recommends users an endless stream of posts based on their interests and behavior. But instead of showing people one video at a time, Xiaohongshu presents photo slideshows, text posts, and videos in a grid format.

But perhaps the biggest difference between the two apps is how they handle content moderation. Because it's accessible in China, Xiaohongshu is required to adhere to strict censorship rules dictated by Beijing. (WIRED previously reported that Xiaohongshu was scrambling to hire English-speaking moderators to help manage the flood of content being posted by Americans.) TikTok, on the other hand, isn’t available in China. Its parent company, ByteDance, operates a separate video app there called Douyin.

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Recent research published in NeuroImage has shed light on how compulsive use of short video platforms, such as TikTok, might affect the brain. The study found that individuals with higher levels of short video addiction displayed increased brain activity in regions linked to emotional regulation and reward processing. Moreover, these users showed structural differences in areas such as the orbitofrontal cortex and cerebellum.

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Short video addiction is characterized by the compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of brief, personalized video content. This behavioral pattern has been linked to negative physical, psychological, and social outcomes, including disrupted sleep patterns, emotional dysregulation, and impairments in attention and memory. The fast-paced, highly stimulating nature of short videos may contribute to a reduced attention span and hinder the brain’s ability to focus on more demanding or meaningful tasks, intensifying concerns about their long-term effects on users’ cognitive and emotional health

While the behavioral consequences of short video addiction are increasingly recognized, the underlying neural and biological mechanisms remain poorly understood. To address this gap, researchers from Tianjin Normal University in China conducted a pioneering study. Their goal was to investigate how short video addiction might reshape the brain and to identify specific genes that could influence susceptibility to this behavioral pattern.

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The researchers observed structural and functional differences in the brains of individuals with higher levels of short video addiction. Structurally, these individuals exhibited increased gray matter volume in the orbitofrontal cortex and cerebellum. a region involved in reward processing, decision-making, and emotional regulation. The increased volume in this area suggests heightened sensitivity to the rewards provided by personalized short video content, potentially reinforcing compulsive viewing behavior. Similarly, changes in the cerebellum, traditionally associated with motor control but increasingly recognized for its role in cognitive and emotional processing, were linked to the sensory-rich, dynamic nature of short videos.

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At least 85 to 95 percent of products from Shein, AliExpress and Temu do not comply with European legislation. This is according to an inspection by European market surveillance authorities. Dutch regulators want a joint approach to protect consumers.

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Dangerous products

Along with this huge increase in parcels, there is also an increasing flow of imports of prohibited goods. Of the inspected products (from Shein, AliExpress and Temu), 85 to 95 percent do not comply with European product legislation.

According to Dutch regulators, these products are often ineffective, risky for consumers or do not work properly. These include toys with loose parts, which are choking hazards for young children. Or electronics that catch fire due to overheating, or cause malfunctions. Banned substances, such as lead, are also often found in these products.

Dutch market surveillance authorities and Dutch Customs are calling for a joint approach in checking the parcels coming from Chinese platforms. According to them, all parties in the chain (production, trade and transport) of ecommerce products from outside the European Union, government and buyers must take responsibility.

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The Chinese system is superior to democracy and climate change is not man-made: disinformation and conspiracy narratives are widespread among the German population - especially among young people and TikTok users, a new survey by the Gemran Allensbach Institute on behalf of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung shows.

Ahead of Germany federal elections in Feb. 23, there is growing concern about foreign disinformation in the country. The German government is concerned that foreign states will deliberately influence public debate. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns against false reports and manipulation.

The representative survey by Allensbach Institute now shows that young people and TikTok users are particularly vulnerable.

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Although a small majority of respondents say that misinformation in the media is a big problem, only 44 percent of them say it is easy to recognize them.

Thus, 30 percent of the respondents do not recognize that Russia is deliberately spreading disinformation, and around 40 percent do not identify China as an actor that deliberately circulates false information.

The results show that young people are much less suspicious than older ones. For example, 42% of people under 29 doubt that Russia is deliberately spreading false information; in the case of China, more than half do.

TikTok users doubt the prevalence of misinformation at 50 percent in Russia and 59 percent in China. TikTok users are therefore significantly less suspicious than consumers of other media.

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The survey of certain disinformation narratives confirms this picture.

Only around 78 percent of those surveyed fully or rather "agree that Russia is conducting an internationally unlawful war of aggression against Ukraine. In the group of under 29-year-olds, this approval is still significantly lower at 69.7 percent. Among TikTok users, only 66 percent.

It is also a matter of concern that more than one third of all TikTok users believe that Russia has a greater interest in peace in Ukraine than the West. In the general population, only 18 percent believe this, while among young people it is 23 percent.

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The susceptibility to disinformation narratives is equally clear when it comes to whether China is a dictatorship. While around 81 percent of Germans agree with this statement, the figure is only 67 percent in the group of under 29-year-olds. Around a third of TikTok users even believe that China is not a dictatorship.

Almost 30 percent of Germans also believe that the autocratic Chinese government system is "more efficient and successful" than Western democracies. Among TikTok users, the figure is significantly higher at 42 percent.

Doubts about vaccines, climate change and pandemic

The view of fundamental scientific knowledge by young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening.

Only 71 percent of people under 29 agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTokNutzers, the approval rate is even lower at 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, that is one in five, and around a quarter of all TikTok users even openly doubt this knowledge, which has been established for decades.

On climate change alone, young people and the general population seem to be shockingly unanimous: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it’s just over half.

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In 2018, Russian businessman Mikhail Shelkov acquired the American mobile app App in the Air, which had access to flight data for users across the U.S. and Europe. As a new investigation by iStories shows, Shelkov is a close associate of Sergey Chemezov, the head of the Russian state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec. Six years after the purchase, Shelkov sold the app for just $2,000, despite having paid millions for it. Since then, Shelkov has partnered with the app’s creator, Bayram Annakov, and the son of a senior FSB official to launch a similar service in Russia.

App in the Air was created by business consultant and mobile developer Bayram Annakov in 2012. Previously, he had launched a geolocation-based chat app called Squeek with his students at Moscow State University and Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. “What might four geek developers come up with? A tool to avoid talking directly to a girl but still get to know her,” he once joked about the project in a podcast interview. Squeek’s popularity at universities and airports inspired him to target a more affluent audience, an idea that eventually became App in the Air.

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In fall 2024, App in the Air abruptly announced its shutdown without explanation.

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Despite acquiring App in the Air for millions in 2018, Shelkov’s Cyprus-based company Norbase sold the app for just $2,000 in 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The buyer, a Spanish citizen managing numerous local firms, was not named publicly. Two years later, App in the Air notified its users that its “final flight” was “landing” — the app was shutting down.

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Meanwhile [...] Annakov and Shelkov are working together on a similar project called Onboard Systems. According to the platform’s website, it is used by Russian airlines such as Smartavia, Azimuth, Ural Airlines, Nordstar, and Utair.

In 2021, Boris Korolev, the 25-year-old son of FSB First Deputy Director Sergey Korolev, became a partner in Onboard Systems alongside Annakov and Shelkov, according to iStories. In 2019, Boris Korolev was mentioned in an investigation by former Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov that explored connections between FSB personnel and Moscow’s funeral services market. Korolev is also the founder of the startup Bastion, which received funding from Citadel, a holding company that works with Russian intelligence agencies.

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A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big data tools—from crime predictors in policing to risk predictors in finance—increasingly govern our lives in ways unaccountable and often unknown to the public. They replicate bias, entrench inequalities, and distort institutional aims. They devalue much of what makes us human: our capacities to exercise discretion, act spontaneously, and reason in ways that can’t be quantified. And far from being objective or neutral, technical decisions made in system design embed the values, aims, and interests of mostly white, mostly male technologists working in mostly profit-driven enterprises. Simply put, these tools are dangerous; in O’Neil’s words, they are “weapons of math destruction.”

These arguments offer an essential corrective to the algorithmic solutionism peddled by Big Tech—the breathless enthusiasm that promises, in the words of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, to “make everything we care about better.” But they have also helped to reinforce a profound skepticism of this technology as such. Are the political implications of algorithmic tools really so different from those of our decision-making systems of yore? If human systems already entrench inequality, replicate bias, and lack democratic legitimacy, might data-based algorithms offer some promise in addition to peril? If so, how should we approach the collective challenge of building better institutions, both human and machine?

TikTok starts restoring service in the U.S. after shutting down over divest-or-ban law

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s initial findings from its surveillance pricing market study revealed that details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target individual consumers with different prices for the same goods and services.

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[The investigation has found that] consumer behaviors ranging from mouse movements on a webpage to the type of products that consumers leave unpurchased in an online shopping cart can be tracked and used by retailers to tailor consumer pricing.

“Initial staff findings show that retailers frequently use people’s personal information to set targeted, tailored prices for goods and services—from a person's location and demographics, down to their mouse movements on a webpage,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. “The FTC should continue to investigate surveillance pricing practices because Americans deserve to know how their private data is being used to set the prices they pay and whether firms are charging different people different prices for the same good or service.”

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BREAKING - Tiktok has now SHUT DOWN SERVICES in the United States, noting "A law banning Tiktok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate Tiktok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!"

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Tiktok has officially shutdown services in the United States.

"A law banning Tiktok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate Tiktok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!"

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I've been dealing with this bizarre issue on my Garmin Oregon 450 GPS, and I need help diagnosing and fixing them. For some reason, I can't catch a break with these undocumented unsolved mysteries. Here's the situation:

(Original)Stuck in USB Mode:

When I turned on the GPS, it shows the USB icon as if it's plugged into a computer for file transfer, even though it isn't. If I plug in a USB, it works for file transfer. The issue disappears when I cover the pins from the back case (with the USB port) to the main board with electrical tape. When I do this, the device works perfectly fine, but I need a more permanent solution without relying on tape(outside, if I want to load maps I will need to disassemble my gps). This issue was sort of fixed by resoldering the CMOS battery(which garmin says is not needed - )

Power Button Problem:

After I desoldered and potentially re-soldered the CMOS battery, the GPS starts when I press the power button, but it doesn't boot fully. It powers on but does not complete the boot process. The thing with the CMOS battery is, I don't know if CMOS is the right term. The battery's voltage is lower than a standard cmos bat, at a shocking 0.24V. This causes me to think it's either completely cooked or it's a specialized battery. Either way, garmin's user manual(link) says it is not needed. See page 36, saying "Data Storage Life: Indefinite; no memory battery required"

Steps I've Taken:

I've desoldered and attempted to re-solder the CMOS battery (model 10N4). I've tried electrical tape on the USB pins, which temporarily solves the ghost USB issue completely even if I press the power button. I've put a little bit of isopropyl alcohol down the USB port(device was off, port was disconnected), it's still drying as I type. I have NOT disassembled any further than the secondary back plate with the battery slots. If someone thinks that will help, I will try to.

Can anyone contribute to this discussion? I have found radio silence online. Thank you very much.

Photos:

The main board of the GPS, with the pins covered up. Back view

The back plate - note the corrosion

The USB pins uncovered.

An overexposed mess showing my shoddy soldering job of the button cell.

Thank you for reading this, and for any ideas you may have.

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Where the fridge cases were previously lined with simple glass doors, there were door-size computer screens instead. These “smart doors” obscured shoppers’ view of the fridges’ actual contents, replacing them with virtual rows of the Gatorades, Bagel Bites and other goods it promised were inside. The digital displays had a distinct advantage over regular glass, at least for the retailer: ads.

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These internet-connected fridge panels, developed by a Chicago startup called Cooler Screens Inc., frequently flickered, crashed or showed the wrong products. Every so often, they caught fire. But store managers were stuck with them. As part of a 10-year contract with Walgreens for a split of the ad revenue, Cooler Screens had installed 10,000 smart doors at hundreds of US locations like this one. It planned to install 35,000 more.

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On Dec. 14, Avakian’s team secretly cut the data feeds to more than 100 Walgreens stores in the Chicago area. The dozen or so smart doors affected in each of these stores either glazed over with white pixels or blacked out altogether. Customers could no longer see where the Coke and Red Bull and Hot Pockets and Heineken sat, and either assumed the fridges were out of order or found themselves rummaging through one by one. Some staffers pasted pieces of paper on the opaque screens that read, for example, “assorted sports drinks & coffee.”

Finally, Mark Zuckerberg can do whatever he wants, as opposed to the past 20 years, where it's hard to argue that he's faced an unrelenting series of punishments. Zuckerberg's net worth recently hit $213 billion, he's running a company with a market capitalization of over $1.5 trillion that he can never be fired from, he owns a 1400-acre compound in Hawaii, and while dealing with all this abject suffering, he was forced to half-heartedly apologize during a senate hearing where he was tortured (translation: made to feel slightly uncomfortable) after only having six years to recover from the last time when nothing happened to him in a senate hearing.

Sarcasm aside, few living people have had it easier than Mark Zuckerberg, a man who has been insulated from consequence, risk, and responsibility for nearly twenty years. The sudden (and warranted) hysteria around these monstrous changes has an air of surprise, framing Meta (and Zuckerberg's) moves as a "MAGA-tilt" to "please Donald Trump," which I believe is a comfortable way to frame a situation that is neither sudden nor surprising.

Mere months ago, the media was fawning over Mark Zuckerberg's new look, desperate to hear about why he's wearing gold chains, declaring that he had "the swagger of a Roman emperor" and that he had (and I quote the Washington Post) transformed himself from "a dorky, democracy-destroying CEO into a dripped-out, jacked AI accelerationist in the eyes of potential Meta recruits." Zuckerberg was, until this last week, being celebrated for the very thing people are upset about right now — flimsy, self-conscious and performative macho bullshit that only signifies strength to weak men and those credulous enough to accept it, which in this case means "almost every major media outlet." The only thing he did differently this time was come out and say it. After all, there was no punishment or judgment for his last macho media cycle, and if anything he proved that many will accept whatever he says in whatever way he does it.

Meta hasn't "made a right-wing turn." It’s been an active arm of the right wing media for nearly a decade, actively empowering noxious demagogues like Alex Jones, allowing him to evade bans and build massive private online groups on the platform to disseminate content. A report from November 2021 by Media Matters found that Facebook had tweaked its news algorithm in 2021, helping right-leaning news and politics pages to outperform other pages using "sensational and divisive content." Another Media Matters report from 2023 found that conservatives were continually earning more total interactions than left or non-aligned pages between January 1 2020 and December 31 2022, even as the company was actively deprioritizing political content.

A 2024 report from non-profit GLAAD found that Meta had continually allowed widespread anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, with the company either claiming that the content didn't violate its community standards or ignoring reports entirely. While we can — and should — actively decry Meta's disgusting new standards, it's ahistorical to pretend that this was a company that gave a shit about any of this stuff, or took it seriously, or sought to protect marginalized people.

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While the Supreme Court continues to consider the constitutionality of the TikTok ban, it is clear that TikTok presents serious and unique national security and human rights concerns. The platform’s parent company, ByteDance, is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has a record of coercing the private sector into conducting censorship and surveillance at home and abroad. The risks of TikTok being exploited by the CCP for malign purposes—for instance, to access personal data to track journalists or shape the information environment in the United States in the event of a national crisis—are very real and need to be taken seriously.

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A better approach to protecting rights and security would be to adopt legislation that strengthens data privacy, platform transparency, and cybersecurity. This would force TikTok to operate more responsibly and better protect Americans’ data, while shedding light on the influence that ByteDance and the CCP have over the platform. This approach would also help address challenges raised by other social media platforms, including those with similar ties to authoritarian states.

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bye bye

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