Meta is rolling out new updates to help teens on its platforms that will help teens battle sextortion. According to techcrunch.com, Meta is expanding availability of Take It Down, an online tool that it helps finance and is run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The company also updated its Sextortion hub with new guidance and is launching a global campaign to raise awareness about sextortion. Take It Down is intended to stop the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery. It allows teens to take back control of their personal intimate photos and prevents ex-partners and scammers from spreading them online. The system can be used by people under 18 who are worried their content has been or may be posted online. It can also be used by parents or trusted adults on behalf of a young person. Plus, it can be used by adults who are concerned about images taken of them when they were under 18.
We have previously reported that neither Netflix nor YouTube nor Spotify would have a native app for Apple’s new Vision Pro headset. Now, bgr.com reports that YouTube spokesperson Jessica Gibby has said that a native Vision Pro app is “on our roadmap,” but she didn’t share a release date. While we wait on a native app from YouTube, there’s already one developer that beat them to the punch. Christian Selig, the developer of the beloved Apollo for Reddit app that shut down recently, whipped up a third-party YouTube app called Juno for the headset. The app costs $4.99 and gives users the full native experience that Google hasn’t built yet.
Bluesky, the social media platform started by Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, has been available by invitation only for a while. Now, theverge.com says the app is ready to go public. Bluesky had grown to 2 million users and 3 million sign ups in closed beta, but has quite a ways to go to get even remotely close to Twitter successor X, or even Meta’s Threads app.
Google has had a feature in place that archives unused apps to save memory. Now, androidpolice.com reports that Android 15 may extend the auto-archiving feature for unused apps to ones side loaded from other sources besides the Play Store. When you archive an app on Android, it does some spring cleaning. The heavy stuff gets tossed out, leaving behind a slimmed-down version on your device. Archived apps are also easy to spot—just look for a cloud icon hanging out on the app icon. If you ever feel the need to resurrect an archived app, just give it a tap. It’ll zip back to life, fully restored, as long as the app is still available.
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