Published on: 2025-06-03 07:44:56
is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. TikTok is back online after a brief outage last night. Many people started reporting problems with the platform just after 11PM ET, noting that while TikTok wasn’t completely offline, it was definitely dealing with some kind of technical issues that impacted users trying to access the service and view video comments. Based on reports from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 08:44:22
is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Just after 11PM ET, many people started reporting problems with TikTok, which isn’t completely offline, but definitely has been dealing with some kind of outage. Downdetector listed 44,000 reports at our last check, and the issue isn’t fixed yet. Based on reports from Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky, and looking at our own devices, at the moment
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 10:50:34
Cybercriminals are using TikTok videos to trick users into infecting themselves with Vidar and StealC information-stealing malware in ClickFix attacks. As Trend Micro recently discovered, the threat actors behind this TikTok social engineering campaign are using videos likely generated using AI that ask viewers to run commands claiming to activate Windows and Microsoft Office, as well as premium features in various legitimate software like CapCut and Spotify. "This attack uses videos (possibly
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is platforms and communities reporter with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. TikTok users will now be able to save tracks they discover straight to their SoundCloud app. On Wednesday, the two companies announced they’re partnering to expand an existing TikTok feature that was previously available to users of music streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify. The “add to music app” button appears when a TikTok user cli
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 21:16:50
TikTok TikTok has launched a new feature aimed at helping teens curb late-night scrolling, but it might benefit everyone. In an announcement this week, TikTok says it's launching several "well-being features" to help younger users build healthy digital habits. Among them is a new in-app meditation feature to help teens wind down if they use TikTok after 10 p.m. Also: You can make a photo come alive with TikTok's new AI tool - here's how Here's how it works. A new feature called "Meditation
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Plagued with lawsuits and allegations of harming users' mental health, especially that of children, social media sensation TikTok is turning to meditation to promote wellness and deter late-night doomscrolling. TikTok said Thursday that it was launching in-app guided meditation exercises and other well-being features aimed at young users. The company, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, said it began testing the new meditation exercises with select teens earlier this year and will now make
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 16:35:00
Popular social media app TikTok has been charged by the European Commission with breaching EU online content rules, which marks the second formal proceeding from the commission since November of 2024. According to the commission's statement, TikTok hasn't complied with the Digital Service Act's requirement that the app must publish a list of advertisements on the app. The repository lets users spot scam advertisements. Aside from the details around the content of ads, the European Commission al
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. TikTok will interrupt teens’ feeds with guided meditation after 10PM. The platform has been testing the feature with a “wind down” prompt, but now it’ll show the notification with guided meditation by default to all users under 18. TikTok’s wind-down prompt initially only played calming music to remind teens to take a break from the app at nighttim
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 05:17:06
TikTok may have run afoul of European regulators over advertising transparency, in the latest bout between EU regulators and big tech companies. The European Commission has formally warned TikTok that its advertising transparency tools don’t go far enough, falling short of EU rules requiring online platforms to maintain a publicly available repository of all paid ads being shown to users. Regulators are taking issue with the data, or lack thereof, being provided in the repository that TikTok ha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 09:30:00
TikTok is launching in-app guided meditation exercises, the social network announced on Thursday. The company began testing the meditation exercises with select teens earlier this year and is now making the feature available to all users on its app. The idea behind the feature is to help users improve their sleep quality and encourage them to put the app down during those late-night endless scrolling sessions. For teen under the age of 18, meditation will be turned on by default. If a teen is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 01:50:03
Joe Maring / Android Authority In May 2025, AI has (for better or worse) become a regular part of daily life. AI features are crammed into almost every new Android phone. Artificial intelligence is transforming how we search for things online, and it’s quickly being added to every app you look at. Most recently, TikTok jumped aboard the AI bandwagon with a new feature called “AI Alive.” As the name suggests, AI Alive uses AI to make your pictures come alive as short videos. You pick a photo on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 04:12:00
AI is encroaching on a new area of social media. TikTok on Tuesday announced the new feature AI Alive, which lets creators animate photos for TikTok stories into short video clips using generative AI. The feature is rolling out in the US this week. My experience using AI Alive has been a mixed bag. The first time I tried it, it took nearly 5 minutes to generate a video, and for 2 of those minutes, it kept saying there were only 10 seconds left. The results ranged from acceptable, at best, to do
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 13:29:38
Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET That photo you'd like to share on TikTok seems a bit blah. If only there were some way you could make it more exciting, dynamic, and visual. You can, thanks to a new AI-powered image-to-video feature known as AI Alive. Unveiled on Tuesday, AI Alive creates a brief video clip out of any still photo. Available within TikTok's Story Camera, the AI tool taps into AI to automatically add the right prompt and transform your photo. After the video is gener
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 01:00:04
TikTok is adding a batch of new accessibility features to make content more inclusive for people with visual and cognitive disabilities, the company said Wednesday. The updates aim to make alternative text easier to add and access, and to improve general text legibility. First, TikTok is testing a feature that uses AI to generate alternative text. Alt text is an image descriptor that can help blind or low-vision people who use a screen reader to better understand what's being shown in a photo.
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TikTok is introducing new accessibility features that make it easier for people with visual impairments to see text and use screen readers on the platform. After adding alt text support for still images in April, TikTok is now testing a feature that automatically adds an AI-generated alt text description to photographs when a creator hasn’t manually added it. Creators will still have the option to add their own alt text descriptions to images as they’re uploaded or after publishing, providing a
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TikTok announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its suite of accessibility tools by rolling out AI-generated ALT text for photos, a high-contrast mode, and support for device-level bold text preferences. TikTok introduced support for ALT text for photos a few weeks ago, allowing creators to provide descriptive text for photos to help users with screen readers understand the visual content through spoken descriptions. Now, the company is testing AI-generated ALT text to automatically describe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 01:19:42
Today, TikTok announced AI Alive, an AI filter that will allow users to animate static photos through prompts. ByteDance says that this new image-to-video feature undergoes multiple checks to avoid misuse, and its output will be labeled as AI-generated. Here’s how to use it. AI Alive is accessible through TikTok’s Story Camera. After the user selects a photo from the Story Album, they see a new “AI Alive” icon alongside the traditional editing tools. Once tapped, the interface displays a text
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 17:50:23
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. TikTok has a new AI-powered tool called “AI Alive” that will let you turn photos into video with a prompt to describe what you want the video to look like. It’s a little different from other You can access the tool from TikTok’s Story Camera, and it uses “intelligent editing tools that give anyone, regardless of editing experience, the ability to transform static images into
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 21:46:30
TikTok hasn't shoved generative AI features into every corner of its app the way Meta has with Instagram, but the company has still experimented with the tech in some interesting — if slightly unsettling — ways. Now, TikTok is introducing a new AI-powered feature that feels even more meme-worthy. It's called AI Alive and it allows users to create short, stylized video clips from a static image. Right now, the feature only exists for TikTok's Stories feature, so it's meant for more ephemeral sha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 01:56:34
TikTok is launching its first image-to-video AI feature, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature is called “TikTok AI Alive” and allows users to turn static photos into videos within TikTok Stories. The feature is only accessible via TikTok’s Story Camera and uses AI to create short-form videos with “movement, atmospheric and creative effects,” TikTok says. For instance, if your static photo features a sky, clouds, and the ocean, TikTok could turn the photo into a video where the sky
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 05:40:00
TikTok is full of entertaining cat videos, humorous dances, and yes, even challenges -- the famed ice-bucket challenge has returned and is promoting mental-health support. But now a dangerous TikTok challenge is spreading through the short-form video app and through schools across the US. The Chromebook Challenge, named for Google's line of laptops, encourages students to insert metal items into the USB port on their school-issued computers, intending to create sparks, smoke and possibly a fire
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 16:47:00
TikTok is full of entertaining cat videos, humorous dances, and yes, even challenges -- the famed ice-bucket challenge has returned and is promoting mental-health support. But now a dangerous TikTok challenge is spreading through the short-form video app and through schools across the US. The Chromebook Challenge, named for Google's line of laptops, encourages students to insert metal items into the USB port on their school-issued computers, intending to create sparks, smoke and possibly a fire
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 21:00:30
When Adam Mosseri took over Meta-owned Instagram as CEO in 2018, the app was experiencing what he’d later call “concerning” drops and plateaus in user engagement, thanks partly to fierce competition from a new app: TikTok. Instagram estimated in 2019 that 23 percent of the decline in time spent on Instagram in the US was due to TikTok. Bytedance’s video app kept expanding through the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. “We can’t explain it all, but what’s clear at this point is that we need to adapt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 16:24:11
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, and other Meta execs thought that TikTok was beating Meta at its own game. That’s according to a new filing in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, published on Monday. The document, dated February 2022, includes conversations among a number of Meta execs discussing Facebook and Instagram’s strategy and market position. In one message, Zuckerberg called Facebook a “challenger” that has “lost the mind
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 08:23:29
“Day 25 of starting over my whole entire life,” Raegan Lynch narrates over a short video. “Right now, I’m wandering around the city I just moved to, in a country I’d never seen, all by myself after my relationship ended, and I had to leave my old life behind.” It’s a pretty enticing hook, which is why Lynch starts every video this way. She pulls us along as she navigates British grocery aisles – which are evidently quite different from those in the States – and bravely compliments a stranger’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 13:23:29
“Day 25 of starting over my whole entire life,” Raegan Lynch narrates over a short video. “Right now, I’m wandering around the city I just moved to, in a country I’d never seen, all by myself after my relationship ended, and I had to leave my old life behind.” It’s a pretty enticing hook, which is why Lynch starts every video this way. She pulls us along as she navigates British grocery aisles – which are evidently quite different from those in the States – and bravely compliments a stranger’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 21:15:00
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Netflix is going to start testing a TikTok-like feed of vertical video in its mobile app to help you discover something new to watch. The test will begin in “the coming weeks,” according to a blog post. From the clips, you’ll be able to watch the show or movie right away, or you can add it to your list of saved things to watch or pass the clip along to a friend. The controls
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 07:55:00
President Donald Trump says TikTok isn't going anywhere anytime soon, even if the popular video app doesn't reach a deal to sell itself before its current June deadline. In a wide-ranging interview with NBC's Meet the Press that aired Sunday, Trump said he won't let a US ban of TikTok go into effect. He said that if needed, he would consider signing yet another executive order giving the company's China-based parent company, ByteDance, more time to divest the app. "I'd like to see it done," he
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 13:20:48
Meta is facing its biggest existential threat in its history. Years after the Federal Trade Commission first sued the social network in an attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that will shape its future is finally underway. FTC v. Meta began last month when CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand, and is expected to last for several weeks. The FTC is hoping to prove to US District judge James Boasberg that Meta’s acquisitions of its one-time rivals were anticompeti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 21:13:00
What just happened? Donald Trump has once again talked about having "a warm spot" in his heart for video-sharing platform TikTok. The president said the app will "be protected," adding that he was willing to give it another extension to allow more time for the sale of its US operations. At the start of last year, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act was passed, defining TikTok as being a threat to national security and controlled by a foreign adversary – C
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