Tea app’s second data breach exposed over a million private messages
Dating safety app Tea experienced a second data breach in as many weeks, exposing over a million sensitive messages between users.
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YouTube rolls out age estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections
YouTube is introducing age detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply prtections.
Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images.
How a Y Combinator food-delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store
BiteSight is a food-delivery app that lets users watch videos of food before ordering. It also lets customers see what their friends have ordered and bookmark places to try out.
X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes
X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform’s best posts.
Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature
Mastodon is experimenting with a new way to raise money: in-app donation banners.
Instagram adds new protections for accounts that primarily feature children
The update will impact the accounts of family vloggers/creators and parents running accounts for “kidfluencers,” both of which have faced criticism for the risks associated with sharing children’s lives on social media.
Twitch starts testing vertical video streams
Twitch’s tests are not widespread at this point, as AppSensa’s research only found a handful of references in the app’s code that mentioned the tests would focus on just “a few streamers” for the time being.