Facebook takes on TikTok with a new, vertical-first video player; WhatsApp goes down in Meta’s second big outage this year; OnePlus went ahead and built its own version of Google Magic Eraser
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Facebook takes on TikTok with a vertical-first video player

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Layoffs hit Lucid and Foursquare

Plus: Spotify to shut off Car Thing for good and Canva launches a proper enterprise product
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Ticketmaster is at the heart of a US antitrust lawsuit against parent company Live Nation

Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers; FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed; Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet is out
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Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers

As a US ban looms, TikTok announces a $1M program for socially driven creators; Microsoft upgrades its AI app-building platforms; The 'vote Trump' spam that hit Bluesky in May came from decentralized rival Nostr
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As a US ban looms, TikTok announces a $1M program for socially driven creators

NYC-Dublin real-time video portal reopens with some fixes to prevent inappropriate behavior; ChatGPT's mobile app revenue saw its biggest spike yet following GPT-4o launch; Google is launching a new Android feature to drive users back into their installed apps
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Facebook takes on TikTok with a vertical-first video player

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