TikTok Ban Sparks Rise of RedNote in the US
As TikTok faces a critical Supreme Court hearing this Sunday (over an immediate nationwide ban), The app’s uncertain future has ignited debates about national security and could reshape the US social media landscape if a shutdown is enforced.
Amid this turmoil, China’s RedNote (Xiaohongshu) app is rapidly gaining popularity and users, termed as "Tiktok refugees" are shifting to RedNote en masse.
With innovative features and an expanding user base, RedNote is positioning itself as a strong alternative to TikTok. Although some believe the migration to RedNote is just a short fad, its growth is undeniable and could change everything considering this is the first time Americans and Chinese are on one platform which is behind the great Chinese firewall.
Personally I think xiaohongshu is great(yes it works in India, and the Chinese on the app are obsessed with cats)
🔗 [Business Standard: TikTok Ban Hearing]
🔗 [CNN: RedNote Popularity Rises]
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As TikTok faces a critical Supreme Court hearing this Sunday (over an immediate nationwide ban), The app’s uncertain future has ignited debates about national security and could reshape the US social media landscape if a shutdown is enforced.
Amid this turmoil, China’s RedNote (Xiaohongshu) app is rapidly gaining popularity and users, termed as "Tiktok refugees" are shifting to RedNote en masse.
With innovative features and an expanding user base, RedNote is positioning itself as a strong alternative to TikTok. Although some believe the migration to RedNote is just a short fad, its growth is undeniable and could change everything considering this is the first time Americans and Chinese are on one platform which is behind the great Chinese firewall.
Personally I think xiaohongshu is great(yes it works in India, and the Chinese on the app are obsessed with cats)
🔗 [Business Standard: TikTok Ban Hearing]
🔗 [CNN: RedNote Popularity Rises]
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Apple's new feature: Made In Arizona
TSMC starts operations in their shiny new factory in Arizona for manufacturing 4nm chips.
In April, Commerce said TSMC expects to begin high-volume production in its first U.S. fab by the first half of 2025, finalizing a $6.6 billion grant in November to TSMC's U.S. unit for semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona.
Raimondo wants the United States to make 20% of world's leading-edge logic chips by 2030 -- up from the 0% before TSMC began production in Arizona.
🔗 Reuters
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TSMC starts operations in their shiny new factory in Arizona for manufacturing 4nm chips.
In April, Commerce said TSMC expects to begin high-volume production in its first U.S. fab by the first half of 2025, finalizing a $6.6 billion grant in November to TSMC's U.S. unit for semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona.
Raimondo wants the United States to make 20% of world's leading-edge logic chips by 2030 -- up from the 0% before TSMC began production in Arizona.
🔗 Reuters
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Over 10 Million Google SSO Accounts under threat, and Google doesn't care
Security Researcher Dylan Ayrey of Truffle Security Co. has demonstrated in his write-up about how Google SSO can be simply broken, and has reported the issue to Google in September, but Google denied his claims and reopened the issue again in December with no updates.
Read the write-up here:
🔗 Truffle Security Co.
👨💻 @agamtechtricks
Security Researcher Dylan Ayrey of Truffle Security Co. has demonstrated in his write-up about how Google SSO can be simply broken, and has reported the issue to Google in September, but Google denied his claims and reopened the issue again in December with no updates.
Read the write-up here:
🔗 Truffle Security Co.
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Microsoft plans to end support for Office on October 14th, 2025
As the push for Windows 11 continues, Microsoft is continuing to cut off support for the predecessor, Windows 10.
“Microsoft 365 apps will no longer be supported after October 14, 2025, on Windows 10 devices,” the company announced today. While it does mean the apps will still continue working (even if there are no guarantees), they will not receive any more updates, so, customers will have to adapt to either using the web version of Office, or, turn to FOSS alternatives such as LibreOffice. The recent standalone Microsoft Office 2024 package is available for Windows 10, though, and will be supported for at least a few years (Microsoft doesn't have an exact end-of-life date right now).
What is their motive to cut the updates? Well, they claim that "it is to improve performance and introduce new fixes, features and patches" and "anyone who doesn't update to Windows 11 puts their computer at risk".
🔗 How To Geek
🧑💻 @agamtecktricks
As the push for Windows 11 continues, Microsoft is continuing to cut off support for the predecessor, Windows 10.
“Microsoft 365 apps will no longer be supported after October 14, 2025, on Windows 10 devices,” the company announced today. While it does mean the apps will still continue working (even if there are no guarantees), they will not receive any more updates, so, customers will have to adapt to either using the web version of Office, or, turn to FOSS alternatives such as LibreOffice. The recent standalone Microsoft Office 2024 package is available for Windows 10, though, and will be supported for at least a few years (Microsoft doesn't have an exact end-of-life date right now).
What is their motive to cut the updates? Well, they claim that "it is to improve performance and introduce new fixes, features and patches" and "anyone who doesn't update to Windows 11 puts their computer at risk".
🔗 How To Geek
🧑💻 @agamtecktricks
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Valve might be working on opening SteamOS for other devices
Valve Engineers have been already working on the open-source Nvidia drivers for Linux, and now with this news we can expect Valve to either release SteamOS for everyone or start licensing SteamOS to companies like ASUS for their own handheld devices.
🔗 Forbes
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Valve Engineers have been already working on the open-source Nvidia drivers for Linux, and now with this news we can expect Valve to either release SteamOS for everyone or start licensing SteamOS to companies like ASUS for their own handheld devices.
🔗 Forbes
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TikTok users are flocking to another popular short-form content app
As the ban on TikTok is set to happen on Jan 19th in the United States (a day before Trump's inauguration), TikTok users are flocking to a popular alternative called RedNote (id est, Xiaohongshu, which also translates to "little red book").
RedNote was initially a shopping app launched in 2013, but it soon became a social media platform for videos. It received 700k users in just two days - a fraction of TikTok's 150 million users.
The TikTok immigrants are, surprisingly, trying to communicate well with the Chinese speakers and they are even trying to learn their language and learn about their culture and lifestyle. Wholesome, no?
🔗 The Verge
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As the ban on TikTok is set to happen on Jan 19th in the United States (a day before Trump's inauguration), TikTok users are flocking to a popular alternative called RedNote (id est, Xiaohongshu, which also translates to "little red book").
RedNote was initially a shopping app launched in 2013, but it soon became a social media platform for videos. It received 700k users in just two days - a fraction of TikTok's 150 million users.
The TikTok immigrants are, surprisingly, trying to communicate well with the Chinese speakers and they are even trying to learn their language and learn about their culture and lifestyle. Wholesome, no?
🔗 The Verge
🧑💻 @agamtechtricks
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UEFI Secure Boot Vulnerability can bypass Secure Boot
CVE-2024-7344 resides in a UEFI application signed by Microsoft's "Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011" third-party UEFI certificate.
Successful exploitation of the flaw can lead to the execution of untrusted code during system boot, thereby enabling attackers to deploy malicious UEFI bootkits on machines that have Secure Boot on, irrespective of the operating system installed.
Secure Boot is a firmware security standard that prevents malware from loading when a computer starts up by ensuring that the device boots using only software that is trusted by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). The feature leverages digital signatures to validate the authenticity, source, and integrity of the code that is loaded.
🔗 The Hacker News
🧑💻 @agamtechtricks
CVE-2024-7344 resides in a UEFI application signed by Microsoft's "Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011" third-party UEFI certificate.
Successful exploitation of the flaw can lead to the execution of untrusted code during system boot, thereby enabling attackers to deploy malicious UEFI bootkits on machines that have Secure Boot on, irrespective of the operating system installed.
Secure Boot is a firmware security standard that prevents malware from loading when a computer starts up by ensuring that the device boots using only software that is trusted by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). The feature leverages digital signatures to validate the authenticity, source, and integrity of the code that is loaded.
🔗 The Hacker News
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An Inquiry into the "Evil" USB Ethernet Adapters
With the recent (or maybe the ever continuous) plague of "fake" USB Ethernet Adapters seeming containing malware ridden drivers, lcamtuf gets to investigating one, including how they are made. It's an interesting read nonetheless.
🔗 lcamtuf
🧑💻 @agamtechtricks
With the recent (or maybe the ever continuous) plague of "fake" USB Ethernet Adapters seeming containing malware ridden drivers, lcamtuf gets to investigating one, including how they are made. It's an interesting read nonetheless.
🔗 lcamtuf
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Sony patents technology to use AI to predict your next move, to improve input lag
This is kinda the same as DLSS but, if poorly implemented, its going to be horrible. I think there will be a specific user onboarding because everyone plays differently. Not a wise move, but we'll see how it goes.
🔗 EuroGamer
🧑💻 @agamtechtricks
This is kinda the same as DLSS but, if poorly implemented, its going to be horrible. I think there will be a specific user onboarding because everyone plays differently. Not a wise move, but we'll see how it goes.
🔗 EuroGamer
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Forwarded from Tadi Channel
Take this, Fairphone! This is what I call commitment to recycling!
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Not so Elite now, eh?
Qualcomm starts shipping X Elite chips with slower variant with missing performance cores.
A less powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite version has begun shipping to OEMs. While Qualcomm insists that the SM8750-3-AB benefits from the same performance improvements as the regular Snapdragon 8 Elite, it has fewer Performance CPU cores than the original model.
🔗 NotebookCheck
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Qualcomm starts shipping X Elite chips with slower variant with missing performance cores.
A less powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite version has begun shipping to OEMs. While Qualcomm insists that the SM8750-3-AB benefits from the same performance improvements as the regular Snapdragon 8 Elite, it has fewer Performance CPU cores than the original model.
🔗 NotebookCheck
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