Jacob Kastrenakes

The LA Times caught up with Daniel Mac, TikTok’s legendary interviewer of people with extremely expensive cars. I’ve always wondered how staged the videos are, but it turns out, there’s just a lot of standing around and waiting.

Musk tweeted that he met with Tim Cook at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, and we are told Apple employees saw the pair walking around. No details on what they discussed, but Musk sounds a lot kinder toward Apple for now.

In a lengthy tweet thread this morning, Daniel Ek criticized Apple’s App Store policies as a “threat to the future of the internet” — and he welcome Elon Musk to the fight.

Elon Musk seems to think people will pay $20 per month to stay verified on Twitter. He’s directed engineers to finish building a paid verification system by next week — they’ll be fired if they don’t, per a new report from my colleague Alex Heath.

That’s the question posed by a new report from Forbes, which says that an internal security team at ByteDance — TikTok’s Beijing-based parent — ran investigations into a US-based security leader that may have contributed to his departure last month. This is the same team that Forbes reported on last week, saying they planned to monitor the location of specific American citizens.

Say you’d like to promote your brilliant tweet or painstakingly crafted Facebook meme, and you want to do it right from the main iPhone app. In the past, companies like Facebook have argued that Apple shouldn’t get a cut of these paid “boosts” on posts, since they’re a form of advertising. But today, Apple said “Nah, just give us 30 percent, it’s in our rules now.”

Barilla is being sued in the US for allegedly misleading consumers into thinking its pasta is made in Italy, rather than New York and Iowa. Why go to court over a miscommunication around noodles? The Washington Post writes: