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TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-exec-a…

'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers
Generative AI is a powerful new tool for fraudsters trying to sell fake products, TikTok Shop's governance leader Nicolas Waldmann said.

DSA-Verfahren: Tiktok einigt sich bei Werbung mit EU-Kommission
Die EU-Kommission akzeptiert von Tiktok vorgeschlagene Verbesserungen bei der Transparenz der Werbung. Andere Untersuchungen laufen jedoch weiter.

TikTok öffnet die KI-Spielwiese: Bild- und Textgenerierung, “Smart Split” und Avatare drängen in den Mainstream. Innovation? Oder nur mehr digitaler Datenmüll im Feed? Der Autor bleibt skeptisch: “Die Gefahr ist, dass Leute KI-Inhalte zunehmend abschalten.” #TikTokAI #Kreativität

An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more (Washington Post)

Spending hours on TikTok? Here’s how the app keeps you swiping.
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

Merch-Shop ist da. Ich habe bestellt, also erzähl ich es euch nun 😜
#39c3

39th Chaos Communication Congress Merch
Dec. 27 – 28, 2025

🧧 Chinese criminals made more than $1 billion from those annoying texts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chinese-criminals-made-more-than-1-billion-from-those-annoying-texts/ar-AA1OtOzx

The UK has spun up a new government cyber unit – led by BAE veteran Bella Powell as “government CISO” – to lead on cross-department cybersecurity, under a £210 million Government Cyber Action Plan
https://www.thestack.technology/government-cyber-unit-210m-investment/

UK spins up cross-government cyber unit, led by CISO Bella Powell
HMG touts £210 million plan, highlights tech debt

Reading thoughts about a new Chinese openweights AI model, Kimi K2 Thinking.
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-thinking-what-it-means

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.

TikTok: Erstes Rechenzentrum in Lateinamerika
In Brasilien entsteht das erste Rechenzentrum von TikTok in Lateinamerika. Es wird ausschließlich mit erneuerbarer Energie betrieben. Aber es gibt Misstöne.
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Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googl…

Google’s $2.7 Billion AI Hire Tests Company’s Speech Limits With Inflammatory Posts
This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company’s internal discussion forums, in response to a post about how Google employees could support their transgender and nonbinary colleagues on International Transgender Day of Visibility. “I do not believe that humans ...