Thu. 10/24 - Is TikTok A “National Security Risk?”

Is TikTok a national security risk? Inquiring Senators want to know. Earnings running the gamut from bad to surprisingly good from Twitter, Amazon and Tesla. And to paraphrase an old saw: if a voicemail system goes down how would anyone even notice?

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Links:

• TikTok raises national security concerns in Congress as Schumer, Cotton ask for federal review (The Washington Post)
• Music Video Upstart ‘Triller’ Says It’s Taking On TikTok Amid $28 Million Series B (TubeFilter)
• Twitter Q3 misses bi on revenues of $824M and EPS of $0.05 on the back of adtech glitches (TechCrunch)
• Twitter’s Growth Sags, But That Wasn’t the Worst Part (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Sales, Profit Top Estimates on Cloud; Azure Slows (Bloomberg)
• Tesla Shares Soar as Elon Musk Packs Profit Report With Positives (Bloomberg)
• AT&T claims a weeks-long voicemail outage will be fixed with a single device update (The Verge)
• Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices (9to5Mac)
• 40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not to Use Facial Recognition Technology (Vice)
• BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror (BBC News)
• Behold the massive social media explosion from Fortnite’s Season 10 finale (The Washington Post)
• Last week's Fortnite update helped Akamai set a new CDN traffic record (ZDNet)