Tech Roundup: Eventbrite IPO, Twitter Direct Message Bug & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Social news platform Twitter says it identified a bug on September 10 that may have sent users' direct messages or protected tweets to third-party developers "who were not authorised to receive them."
• Facebook yet to update its user terms to comply with E.U. consumer laws even after consumer protection authorities voice concerns over lack of clarity about how its service operates and makes money, adding "not many people know that #Facebook has made available their data to third parties or that for instance it holds full copyright about any picture or content you put on it."
• Credit rating agency Equifax, which faced one of the worst data breaches in history last year, is slapped with a maximum penalty of £500,000 for privacy violations. (This is based on the older privacy directive that was in place, rather than the new E.U. GDPR regulation, which allows for maximum penalties of as much as 4% of a company's global turnover for serious data failures.)
• Ticketing and event-management company Eventbrite makes trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange (under the ticker EB) for US$ 36 a share.
• Facebook begins public testing of its dating service in Colombia.
• Microsoft integrates Google AMP in Bing mobile search results two years after it embraced the feature in Bing app. (I would appreciate if there was an option to turn off AMP completely!)
• Instagram begins testing new features like tagging user profiles in video posts, geofencing posts to specific locations, hiding hashtags from captions and turning someone else's Stories Highlight into a sticker to be overlaid on their own Story, in addition to letting users send GIFs in direct messages; denies reports that it is working on native resharing of posts.
• Google tests a new change that rebrands Google Now Feed to Discover; changes the icon to an asterisk.
• Uber said to be looking at acquiring Uber EATS rival and London-based food delivery startup Deliveroo, according to Bloomberg.
• Bike and scooter sharing company Lime and Bike cross 11.5 million and 10 million rides respectively.
• Google splits Family Link parental control app into separate apps for parents and children/teens.
• Creative digital solutions provider Adobe makes it biggest acquisition ever; purchases marketing software maker Market for US$ 4.75 billion.
• Amazon-owned live game streaming service Twitch forces Twitch Prime users who want an ad-free experience switch to Twitch Turbo plan (US$ 8.99 per month); gets blocked in China as the platform gains in popularity.
• Noteworthy ad-blocker AdGuard forcibly resets all of its users' passwords after it detects "continuous attempts to login to AdGuard accounts from suspicious IP addresses which belong to various servers across the globe" in a credential stuffing attack.
• Microsoft to bring Skype calling to Alexa-powered devices later this year weeks after previewing Alexa and Cortana integration across Echo devices, Xbox One, and Windows 10 PCs.