Dumb tech bills, bankruptcy, and one tech company doing good

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In this episode: 

• Senators unveil bipartisan legislation to ban kids under 13 from joining social media platforms
• BeReal says it has more than 20 million daily active users | Engadget
• New York’s MTA is abandoning bus and train alerts on Twitter
• Twitter's former CEO has a new app that looks a lot like Twitter
• Apple and Google team up to stop unwanted AirTag tracking
• Google on why Authenticator sync isn’t E2E encrypted, but option coming later
• Lookout sells its consumer cybersecurity business to F-Secure for $223M and goes all-in on the enterprise

• Earth.com files for bankruptcy, owing $5 million for domain name
• Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices. Here’s why that’s a big deal.
• AI Political Ads Are Here, and No One Knows How to Handle Them
• Canva AI can turn photos into a professional headshot
• AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
• Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla

Weird and Wacky: 

• Is your desk chair messing with your screen?

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - News Minimalist 
• Adam - Dropbox Capture

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