This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, December 19th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know,

give you the important context and help each other understand. Today, Justin Robert Young talks with Tom

about the agreement to sell TikTok's U.S. operations and Jason has a first look at the Ray Neo

X3 Pro XR smart glasses.

I'm looking at them right now.

I'm Jason Howell.

I'm going to do it now.

Let's start with what you need to know with a big story.

And boy, what a big story it is.

The news broke just last night, Thursday evening, that TikTok's CEO sent a memo to employees with details

on a newly signed agreement to create a joint venture to handle part of TikTok's U.S.

operations and avoid a prohibition on distribution there.

Now, Tom Merritt sat down with Justin Robert Young from the Politics, Politics, Politics Podcast

to go over the details and some of the political implications.

It's a little long, but it's very detailed.

So let's dive right in.

Justin Robert Young, thanks for joining the show.

Always a pleasure, Tom.

Oh my gosh.

And what a pleasure it is to finally have this story, maybe not put to bed, you know, but it's, it's been a long, like three year journey when you go all the way back more than that.

No, I mean, all the way back would be the first time that it was fritted with banning it, which was closer to 2020. So yeah, we are,

we are at a half a decade of discussing what to do with this meddlesome TikTok.

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