Inside the bill that bans TikTok: President Joe Biden signed a bill that will ban TikTok in the United States if parent company ByteDance doesn’t divest itself of the company within a year.Read More
New features for WhatsApp: WhatsApp introduces support for passkey verification on iOS, removing the need for users to deal with SMS one-time passcodes. Read More
Square for Bitcoin lovers: Block, which owns Square and Cash App, has a new program where merchants using Square can convert a percentage of their daily sales to bitcoin. Read More
Meet Nova AI: The startup’s founder says it is attempting to best its competitors with its end-to-end testing tools by breaking many of the Silicon Valley rules of how startups should operate. Read More
Reddit upgrades its mobile app: Users can access a new media player by clicking on an image or video so there is a more consistent conversation navigation across post types. Read More
Anon and its automated authentication layer: Find out how the startup focused on authentication when it initially wanted to develop an AI agent. Read More
Hello? Bugs here: Zack Whittaker looks into vulnerabilities in the tracking app iSharing. These “bugs” allowed anyone using the app to access anyone else’s coordinates, even if the user wasn’t actively sharing their location data with anybody else. Read More
Spotify’s new app in the EU: Spotify submitted a new update to Apple for European Union users with pricing information and basic site information. Read More
When is a merger not a merger?: Apparently if you are Big Tech. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority is probing whether close-knit tie-ups and hiring practices involving Microsoft, Amazon and a trio of AI startups fall within the scope of its merger rules — and whether the arrangements could impact competition in the U.K. market. Read More
