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TechCrunch What's in the rug? How TikTok got swept into a real-time true crime story This week's biggest drama on TikTok tells the story of a woman from Ohio who was building a fence in her yard, only to uncover a mysterious rug buried on her property. Viewers speculated that her home could be a potential murder scene, and suddenly, local content creator Katie Santry was at the center of her own real-life true crime story, unfolding video by video on TikTok. Before finding the rug, Santry had roughly 6,000 followers on TikTok, where she mostly shared content about her life as a mom, discussing challenging topics like pregnancy, miscarriages, and divorce.

Facebook launches a Gen Z-focused redesign Facebook wants to woo more younger users to join its social network, instead of spending all their time on TikTok, Instagram, and other social apps. To do so, parent company Meta on Friday announced a series of changes to the older social network which will put greater emphasis on local community information, videos, and Facebook Groups, among other things. Other Facebook products, like Meta AI, Facebook Dating, and Messenger are receiving updates as well.

Rivian deliveries fall as component shortage slows production Rivian said on Friday it will build fewer vehicles this year than it did in 2023 due to a supply chain problem that popped up in the third quarter and has now "become more acute in recent weeks." Only 10,018 Rivian vehicles made it into customers' hands in Q3, down from 13,970 in Q2. Rivian's chief financial officer, Claire McDonough, warned on a conference call in August that deliveries would dip because it had sold a lot of inventory in the second quarter.

Hey, UK! Here's how to 'opt out' of Meta using your Facebook and Instagram data to train its AI After Meta recently reignited controversial plans to use the public posts of U.K. Facebook and Instagram users' as AI training fodder, the social networking giant has taken the next step and begun to notify local users it will soon start helping itself to their information again. The bad news is the process Meta has devised for opting out of this data-for-AI grab is almost as onerous as it was first time around. The company began sending out notifications about the impending data grab last week and, much like last time, the message Meta displays informing users of its planned use of their information is posted alongside other user alerts, such as friend requests and group updates, making it easy to miss.

In war-torn Sudan, a displaced startup incubator returns to fuel innovation Unfortunately for anyone in Sudan, stability has been hard to come by for the past year and a half as the country quakes amidst a raging civil war. More than 20,000 people have been killed, and about 7.7 million people have been displaced just within the country; millions have had to flee across international borders as refugees. "On the Saturday when the war broke out, we had staff members in the office, and after three days, the RSF militia knocked on the door and said, 'You guys got to leave, and if you don't leave, there will be some bullets in the air,'" Yousif Yahya, the founder of Savannah Innovation Labs, told TechCrunch.