TikTok has a reputation for its aggressive data collection. The platform has implemented various methods to make it difficult for reverse-engineers to understand exactly what data is being collected and how it is being used.
TikTok is China's next big weapon in the battle for Americans' personal data
Its parent company views it as an artificial intelligence platform.
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
How TikTok ate the internet
You don’t tell TikTok what you want to see. It tells you. And the internet can’t get enough.
nullpt.rs • Devirtualizing Nike.com's Bot Protection (Part 1)
In this blog post, we'll examine the virtualization obfuscation used by Nike
This TikTok account pumped out fake war footage with AI — until CBC News investigated | CBC News
A TikTok account sharing AI-generated videos of explosions and burning cities has disappeared from the platform. But the type of content it hosted — what experts call “AI slop” — is still going strong.
TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm—It’s Your Phone
Escaping the platform's addictive grasp means first overhauling our relationship to our devices.
What Comes After TikTok
Last month, the U.S. gave TikTok a choice—either its owner, Chinese artificial intelligence company ByteDance, has to sell it, or it will face a federal ban. As we wait to see how ByteDance responds, more than 25 U.S. states have gone ahead and banned the app from state employees’ devices. And ...
Inside TikTok’s Unhinged Home Remodeling Videos
We kept seeing more and more utterly absurd, hugely viral, AI-fever-dream home remodeling videos on TikTok. So we tracked down where they actually come from.
Despite international hires, TikTok is Chinese at its core
Rest of World spoke to more than a dozen employees who said that TikTok remains answerable to ByteDance rather than its international leadership.
Cheerfulness and censorship
Never before has a platform grown as fast as TikTok. We have gained exclusive insight into its content moderation and are publishing excerpts from its moderation rules: TikTok operates a sophisticated system to identify, control, suppress and direct content. The platform can throttle videos of protests and demonstrations according to its rules.
TikTok is pulling back on an AI feature that went haywire
TikTok is pulling back on an AI feature that added wildly inaccurate text summaries to videos from users like Charli D'Amelio and Shakira.
Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
Automated attack surface analysis and reduction can meaningfully improve the security of deployed software in the near term. In this post, we preview data we’ve collected from applying attack surface reduction techniques to large open-source codebases using Claude.
DecryptAds — From Hidden Flows to Public Insight
DecryptAds maps programmatic ad-tech supply chains from public files — ads.txt, sellers.json, and related signals — so you can trace hidden flows and surface invalid supply.
Triton: A dynamic binary analysis library
Triton: A dynamic binary analysis library