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Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free

A developer using the handle hashfunction published metadata for roughly 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on Hugging Face under the datasocial account, covering July 2014 through October 2026. The 460 GB Parquet dataset contains captions, hashtags, engagement counts and other metadata and is offered under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license while directing commercial users to datasocial.ai.

Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free

Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet

Vinod Khosla believes ex-DeepMind engineer’s Wajo will win agent market on trust

At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI

Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account

A Florida Woman Used Claude as a Diary. An Anthropic Employee Read It and Reported It to Police

AI glasses face their first major government crackdown

Progressives unveil legislation cracking down on Flock cameras

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

Sanders introduces bill to ban the federal government from using Flock

Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents

America at a crossroads: Commissioner Peirce’s parting challenge

Tether's USDT is 'coming home' to Bitcoin this month over a decade after debut there

Ethereum’s zkAPI brings privacy-preserving API payments to mainnet

Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User's Messages Without Consent

California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people

Apple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn’t record video

Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’

All the latest news on Meta’s cute, creepy Muse AI agent

With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox

Your car and its mobile app are probably handing over all kinds of data to tech companies

Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money

Ethereum users get another way to pay privately as zk.money returns after three years