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SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, says free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk  —  The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday …
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Trump says he will “be making the decision” about TikTok and confirms he had a conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the app  —  The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a controversial ban on TikTok may take effect this weekend, rejecting an appeal from the popular app's owners …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount execs held internal talks about settling a Trump lawsuit over a CBS interview with Kamala Harris, to avoid Paramount/Skydance merger hurdles  —  Paramount, owner of CBS, its namesake studio and several cable channels, has a major piece of business in front of the new administration …
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A Florida jury finds that CNN defamed a US Navy veteran in a 2021 report portraying him as illegally exploiting Afghans, awards the veteran $5M  —  Zachary Young alleged CNN defamed him in a report by chief security correspondent Alex Marquardt that said he operated in a “black market.”
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Coldplay's biggest-ever Indian concert on January 26 will be streamed exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar, as the platform makes a move into live music content  —  The Jan. 26 Republic Day performance from Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium will be available to viewers across India …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple disables notification summaries for News & Entertainment apps in iOS 18.3 beta and makes other changes to summaries, including using italicized text  —  Apple released the iOS 18.3 beta 3 to developers this afternoon.  The update includes a handful of changes to the notification summaries feature of Apple Intelligence.
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Prime Video says Beast Games, MrBeast's competition series, has attracted 50M viewers globally in its first 25 days; about half the viewing is outside the US  —  The competition hosted and devised by Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson is one of Prime Video's biggest releases of 2024, the streamer says.
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
A group of 18 former European heads of state call on the EC to break up Google's advertising tech business, claiming it erodes Europe's media landscape  —  18 former European heads of state are claiming Google's highly lucrative advertising-technology business erodes Europe's media landscape
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The co-founder and publisher of SCOTUSblog, Tom Goldstein, faces tax evasion charges after an indictment filed in Maryland, citing events between 2016 and 2022
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Trump plans to nominate Olivia Trusty, policy director for a US Senate committee, as the third Republican member of the FCC's five-person commission
Reuters:
Two journalists critical of US support for Israel, Sam Husseini and Max Blumenthal, were ejected from a press briefing after berating Secretary of State Blinken
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Justin Baldoni sues Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, accusing them of civil extortion, defamation and invasion of privacy; he had earlier also sued the NYT
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: an exec overseeing Siri told staff the delays were ugly, made worse by Apple publicly promoting the new features, and it's unclear when they will ship

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Klarna files for a US IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE under KLAR, seeking to raise at least $1B and reportedly targeting a valuation of more than $15B

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says Gemini will replace Google Assistant on Android phones in 2025, except on phones with Android 9 or earlier and that don't have at least 2GB of RAM
 
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