Makena Kelly / The Verge: The US Senate Judiciary Committee advances the Kids Online Safety Act and COPPA 2.0; critics highlight issues, like forcing companies to collect more user data  —  Congress is closer than ever to passing a pair of bills to childproof the internet after lawmakers voted to send them to the floor Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: WhatsApp announces instant video messages, letting users send clips up to 60 seconds in a similar way to voice notes; videos automatically play on mute  —  WhatApp’s latest feature is the ability to quickly send short video messages, similar to the voice messages the service already supports. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google rolls out Android unknown tracker alerts, including manual scan, and pauses a Find My Device update to locate missing items until Apple updates iOS  —  Google today will begin to roll out a new safety feature, unknown tracker alerts, first announced at its developer event Google I/O this spring. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Filing: US government services contractor Maximus says MOVEit hackers accessed protected health information and other data of “at least” 8M to 11M people  —  U.S. government services contracting giant Maximus has confirmed that hackers exploiting a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer accessed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues  —  / Despite supply chain issues and the problems caused by the pandemic, Sony says the PS5 supply is now ‘well-stocked.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme