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Privacy-centric software maker Proton has launched a new family plan starting at $19.99 (€19.99) per month, giving up to six family members access to its entire application suite.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Apple engineer Neil Jhaveri has been working on an email app for Mac called Mimestream. It is now out of beta after a long test phase of more than two years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s finally happened: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

China has banned some sales of Micron products after launching a probe into the American memory chip giant for cybersecurity risks in early April.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn’t (yet?) played out as pressure on the wider restaurant industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple released iOS 16.5 Thursday to all users with a new sports tab in the Apple News app. The tab acts as a hub for scores, match schedules, and articles for your favorite sports teams.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A popular fertility tracking app shared users’ sensitive health information with third-party advertisers without their consent, a new Federal Trade Commission complaint alleges.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Password manager 1Password today launched a new service, Passage by 1Password, that’s designed to allow businesses to build passkey authentication into their apps and websites without having to maintain their own security infrastructure.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President of Marvel Studios Kevin Fiege took to the Disney Upfront stage Tuesday to announce that Marvel’s new Disney+ show, “Echo,” is getting a binge release– a first for an MCU series.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You know the old saying: If you don’t like Amazon Echo’s form factors, just wait a few minutes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When he was 10 years old, Patrick Gilligan’s childhood struggle with food began.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welsh in-space manufacturing startup Space Forge has developed a satellite reentry system to enable rapid recovery and reuse of its in-space manufacturing spacecraft.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the largest pharmacy service providers in the United States has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of almost six million patients.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Foxconn will invest $500 million to set up manufacturing plants in the southern Indian state of Telangana, the latest in a series of bets from the key Apple contract partner as it expands its base in the South Asian market.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Toyota Japan has apologized after admitting to leaving millions of customers’ vehicle details on the public internet for a decade.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TikTok has upended how music is discovered, used and consumed these days; now, its long-term effort to build a business around that is getting a boost.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Pinterest further shifts its focus to video content following the development of its video-focused Idea Pins, the company says it will now streamline its tools for all Pin formats into one creation flow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple just released findings from an independent study, which highlighted that the revenue of small developers on the App Store grew by 71% from 2020 to 2022.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clearview AI, the US startup that’s attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the Internet and used people’s data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law enforcement and others, has been hit with another fine in France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Artificial gravity space station startup Vast announced that it intends to put the first commercial space station in orbit in August 2025 via launch partner SpaceX. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially greenlighted the proposed $7.3 billion merger between Viasat and Inmarsat.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Porsche has partnered with Mobileye, the autonomous driving unit that Intel spun out into a public company last year, to bring hands-free automated assistance and navigation functions to future sports cars, the companies said Tuesday.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Friday, a month after the company revealed it had been the victim of a data breach, Western Digital published an update on the incident and notified customers that their data was stolen.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Virgin Galactic will return to the skies later this month, in a crewed mission that the company hopes will bring to an end the nearly three-year gap since its first and only crewed flight in July 2021.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

London-based outsourcing giant Capita left a trove of data exposed online for 7 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices