TNW 422: Oracle's TikTok Takeover Starts With Outage - US TikTok Suffer Issues and Outage
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jacob Ward joins the show this week! Big Tech is brewing up a battle for your kids. Scientists are using AI to identify dinosaur footprints. Looking into Apple's Creator Studio. And TikTok USDS blames Sunday's outages on a power outage.
- Jacob Ward talks about recently released documents in lawsuits against big tech that showcase how social media companies are aggressively recruiting teens to their platforms.
- Mikah Sargent gets very excited about scientists using AI in identifying dinosaur footprints.
- Dan Moren of SixColors stops by to talk about the Apple Creator Studio collection that makes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and other creative apps available for users for a single subscription.
- And Emma Roth of The Verge joins the show to talk about the outage the US side of TikTok suffered earlier this week following the finalization of the new TikTok USDS Joint Venture.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward
Guests: Dan Moren and Emma Roth
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jake Ward is here, |
| 0:03.0 | and Jake talks about how he has been studying |
| 0:05.0 | the way that Big Tech has its eyes set on your children. |
| 0:09.0 | After that, I talk about scientists using AI to identify dinosaur footprints. |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, a cool use of AI. |
| 0:16.0 | Dan Morin from Six Colors stops by to tell us about Apple Creator Studio, |
| 0:20.0 | and Emma Roth joins us to give us the latest on the TikTok US operation. |
| 0:25.3 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:30.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:31.7 | From people you trust. |
| 0:34.2 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:37.8 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 422, with Jake Ward and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, January |
| 0:45.9 | 29th, 26. |
| 0:48.4 | Oracle's TikTok takeover starts with outage. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello, and welcome to Tech News Weekly, |
| 0:55.3 | the show where every week we talk to |
| 0:56.5 | and about the people making and, well, breaking that tech news. |
| 0:59.9 | I am one of your hosts, Micah Sargent, |
| 1:01.7 | and today on this, the final Thursday of the month, |
| 1:04.6 | I am joined by the wonderful dulcet tones of Jake Ward. |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome, Jake. Hello, Micah. How are we doing? Oh, ASMR a little bit there. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, exactly. Who wants to hear me rub my beard here? |
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