Tech News Uber will end its free loyalty program Uber Rewards on November 1, 2022, to focus on its new Uber One membership program (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Tech News China's internet watchdog publishes a list of 30 algorithms used in popular apps, including Wechat, Taobao, and Douyin, with brief descriptions of their use (Reuters)
Tech News Experts say Coinbase's decision to stop emailed price alerts during 2022's crypto crash likely contributed to retail investor losses and was potentially illegal (Ali Breland/Mother Jones)
Tech News Amazon's new reality show Ring Nation featuring footage from its Ring home security cameras is the company's latest effort to normalize its surveillance network (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)
Tech News Dutch authorities arrest a Tornado Cash developer suspected of involvement in concealing money laundering, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixer (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
Tech News Sources: YouTube plans to launch a "channel store" for streaming services as early as this fall and is talking with partners about subscription revenue splits (Wall Street Journal)
Tech News Sources detail Meta's challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users' apathy toward encryption, which could change due to Roe's reversal (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Tech News Memo: meditation app Calm lays of 20% of its staff; sources say Calm employed ~400 people and approximately 90 were laid off; Calm was valued at $2B in 2020 (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
Tech News A California bill targeting social media companies for features that could addict minors dies in legislature, after Meta, Twitter, and Snap lobbied against it (Sarah Donaldson/Wall Street Journal)
Tech News Google has agreed to pay $60M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about collection of personal location data (The Guardian)