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Stench about the TikTok/WeChat saga, and more tech news today
July 04, 2025
1. TikTok/WeChat saga continues (but worse)
Sorry but the TikTok and WeChat saga is continuing, amid new strangeness which is starting to give off a bit of a foul smell.
In short, the White House managed to get neither TikTok nor WeChat banned on China-owned apps on Sunday, but that’s partly because the White House made its own confusing call on TikTok.
Here’s where we’re at:
Reactions from the tech community?White-hot in their fury:
- Would you havetried a rebooted Xperia Play 2? This might be a first glimpse of the canceled slide-out gamepad (Android Authority).
3.Samsung Galaxy Note 20 review: Overpriced and underbaked — the vanilla Note 20 disappoints. (The Note 10 Plus might be better, and way cheaper now!) (Android Authority).
- It’s timeGoogle took streaming seriouslywith its new Chromecast (Android Authority).
5.The Android 11 interview: Googlers answer our burning questions: Android engineers Dave Burke and Iliyan Malchev return for the yearly Q&A (Ars Technica).
6.Google brings back humansto take over moderating YouTube content from AI (Digital Trends).
Twitter has had its AI decimated by viral tweets over the weekend, as clear evidence showed it favors white faces over any other race, especially notable for how it ignores Black faces:Twitter is investigating its image preview AI(The Verge).
Sony apologizesfor botched PlayStation 5 pre-orders, with more consoles available soon (Engadget).
On that note,it seems only a quarter or less of PS5 consoles made availableare the digital-edition, which Sony may not have expected (Ars Technica). And finishing that line,here’s a great thread with scale mockupsshowing how the PS5 and the new Xbox consoles look when on your entertainment console, based on their real sizes (Twitter).
- EV startupNikola founder Trevor Miltonhas stepped down after fraud allegations and regulator probes (FT).
10.Behind Facebook’s giant bet on hardware: beating Apple and Google to next-gen tech? (Axios)
11.Marvel’s old-timey new trailer for WandaVision on Disney+is now out, but no release date yet (YouTube).
- “What was thefirst video game you felt was a work of artand not just something to play for fun?” (r/askreddit).
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