December 15, 20210CommentsTikTok is testing TikTok Live Studio, a Windows app that lets users stream directly to TikTok Live from their computer (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
December 15, 20210CommentsMeta adds Messenger support to Ray-Ban Stories via a software update, letting users send and receive messages, make calls, and have messages read aloud (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
December 15, 20210CommentsThe EU Parliament passes the Digital Markets Act, after Vestager’s suggestion last month; EU countries and the Commission will consider the law next year (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
December 15, 20210CommentsDeep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit, captured in the wild by Citizen Lab and one of the most sophisticated Google’s Project Zero has seen (Project Zero)
December 15, 20210CommentsIBM and Samsung say Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors, an alternative to FinFET chip designs, can offer 2x performance, amid similar claims from Intel (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)
December 15, 20210CommentsKatie Haun is leaving Andreessen Horowitz to start a new firm focusing on crypto and Web3 startups; Haun’s deals at a16z included OpenSea and Coinbase (Dan Primack/Axios)
December 15, 20210Comments18 Democratic lawmakers call on the Treasury and State Departments to enact Magnitsky rights abuse sanctions on four spyware firms, including NSO and DarkMatter (Reuters)
December 15, 20210CommentsMeta updates its bug bounty program to pay researchers who find anti-scraping loopholes, reward those who find scraped Facebook data with donations to charity (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)