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Sep 23, 2025 · Big Data

How TikTok’s U.S. Takeover Highlights Massive Data Waste in Short‑Video Streaming

President Donald Trump announced a consortium led by Dell and Oracle aiming to acquire TikTok’s U.S. business, with Oracle’s cloud set to host all American traffic and data, while a recent SIGCOMM study reveals that current short‑video prefetching wastes over 40% of bandwidth, prompting a new QoE‑focused optimization framework.