Fri. 08/07 – The Executive Order To Ban TikTok and WeChat

The President officially signs an order to block ByteDance AND Tencent. Apple confirms the reasons why xCloud and Stadia aren’t coming to iOS any time soon. Uber is now, officially, more burrito delivery company than taxi company. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Trump will prohibit transactions with ByteDance beginning September 20th in apparent TikTok ban (The Verge)
• Mark Zuckerberg Says A Ban On TikTok Would Set “A Really Bad Long-Term Precedent” (BuzzFeed.news)
• Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines (The Verge)
• I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base (TroyHunt.com)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Pinduoduo: Vertically Integrated Social Commerce (Turner Novak's Substack)
• The New Network (The Bulwark)
• The Vigilante Hunting Down Cheaters in Video Games (Motherboard)
• The Next 'Mafia'? Mapping The Alumni Of Square (Protocol)
• Dan Rose Kindle Tweet Thread
• How TikTok’s Owner Tried, and Failed, to Cross the U.S.-China Divide (NYTimes)

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