Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, February 10th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Maybe the whole Tik-Tok Kabuki Theater is reaching an endpoint.

Salesforce thinks the whole concept of the 9-5 workday is at an endpoint.

More smoke around the apple goggles fire. Why you need to get hip to the concept of

non-fungible tokens and why cops have gotten hip to playing sublime songs to

prevent you from filming them. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Well, I'm sure glad we wasted all of our time,

worrying about this a few months ago.

Sources are saying that the Trump administration

plan to force the sale of Tik-Tok

to a group, including Oracle and Walmart,

has been shelved indefinitely, quoting the Well Street Journal.

Discussions have continued between representatives of Bight Dance and U.S. national security officials, the people said.

Those discussions have centered on data security and ways to prevent the information

Tik-Tok collects on American users from being accessed by the Chinese government, they said.

But no imminent decision on how to resolve the issues surrounding Tik-Tok is expected as the

Biden administration determines its own response to the potential security risk posed by

Chinese tech companies collection of data.

Quote, we plan to develop a comprehensive approach to securing US data that addresses the

full range of threats we face.

National Security Council Spokeswoman Emily Horn said, this includes the risk posed by Chinese apps and other software

that operate in the US. In the coming months we expect to review specific cases

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