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Rising TikTok star Nahsiyah Turner –best known as Siyah — has died in a shooting outside a Southern California mall. She was 17. The content creator, who boasted more than 310,000 followers on TikTok, died of a gunshot wound to the chest on Jan. 18, People reported. Rising TikTok star…

Australian cybersecurity executives and the federal opposition have sounded a warning about Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek, which has rocketed to the top of app stores globally and roiled sharemarkets with its threat to America’s AI dominance. DeepSeek’s rapid ascent this week took investors and analysts by surprise – as…

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Jeff and Fernando talk Even Realities G1 Smart Glasses, iOS 18.3 release, the TikTok situation, Samsung S25 hands-on, and iPhone 17 Air possibilities. 9to5Mac Overtime  is a weekly video-first podcast exploring fun and interesting observations in the Apple ecosystem, featuring 9to5Mac’s Fernando Silva & Jeff Benjamin. Subscribe to Overtime via Apple…

By Adeola Adeosun is the Newsweek Weekend Night Editor based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her focus is reporting on U.S. national news, politics and trends. Adeola joined Newsweek in 2024 and has previously worked for CNN, Bossip, and The Messenger. You can get in touch with Adeola by emailing a.adeosun@newsweek.com. Languages:…

Time for a quick check in on the U.S. TikTok sweepstakes, with another player looking to refine its offer to acquire the U.S. operations of the short-form video powerhouse. Yesterday, Perplexity AI revised its takeover offer for TikTok U.S., with a new proposal that could hold more appeal to the…

TikTok has launched its 2025 marketing calendar, which is designed to help marketing teams ensure that they maximize their seasonal opportunities. Even better, TikTok’s also launched fifteen regional variations of the listing, so you can choose the calendar that best relates to your target audience, showcasing the key dates in…

MADRID — At Madrid's new restaurant Pecados, the main attraction is not so much its fusion food as the young Ukrainian-born chef running it — a "Gen Z" social media star who shot to fame teaching recipes during the Covid pandemic. Elias Dosunmu, 27, boasts 9.6 million followers on TikTok, nearly…

A heart-wrenching story of betrayal and its devastating consequences has gone viral after a Nigerian woman and her son got HIV infection from her cheating husband. The woman anonymously shared her ordeal with a relationship adviser on TikTok @_yoursafespace_e, stating how her marriage and life collapsed. She revealed how her…

So what’s the latest on TikTok, and its future in the U.S.? Well, that depends on who you ask. To clarify, as of right now, TikTok is operating illegally in the U.S., due to the “ Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act ”, which was approved by the…