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🔴 Amazon Bids for TikTok as Ban Deadline Nears

🔸 Amazon makes surprise offer days before April 5 U.S. ban deadline.
🔸 White House seeks Chinese ownership under 20%; ByteDance pressured to divest.
🔸 Other bidders include Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, and Blackstone.
🔸 Critics say Amazon’s bid isn’t being taken seriously in current talks.

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Stefan Bohacek

Oh wow, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) annual challenge for writers that started as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999 is shutting down.

"NaNoWriMo lost significant community support when it took a stand in favor of the use of artificial intelligence in creative writing. [...] Around the same time, the nonprofit was also lambasted for inconsistent moderation on its all-ages forums, which created an unsafe environment for teenage writers, community members claimed."

techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nano

TechCrunch · NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals | TechCrunchNaNoWriMo, a twenty-five-year-old online writing community-turned-nonprofit, announced on Monday evening that it is shutting down. NaNoWriMo -- an
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