Tech Roundup: Google Chrome RSS Reader, Twitch Data Breach & More

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

• Facebook to begin clamping down on the illegal sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest on its platform following a BBC investigation in February that found that plots of rainforest as large as 1,000 football pitches, including national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples, were being listed on its classified ads service.
• Japan's Fair Trade Commission opens new probe to investigate whether Apple and Google are leveraging their dominance in the smartphone operating system market to eliminate competition and severely limit options for consumers.
• Dutch antitrust watchdog, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), reportedly rules that Apple's in-app purchase requirements are anti-competitive, ordering the company to make changes to the rules that force developers to use in-app payment options, in what's the latest regulatory setback.
• Snapchat rolls out new tools to crack down on illicit drug sales and prevent younger users from buying counterfeit pills and illicit drug son its platform.
• Microsoft becomes the first major company to commit to right to repair, as it announces plans to make it easier for its customers to repair the products it sells in the near future; acquires Ally.io, a start-up that provides software to help organizations keep track of their progress on key goals, for an undisclosed sum.
• Interactive live-streaming platform Twitch acknowledges data breach after an anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board leaked its entire source code along with hundreds of gigabytes of sensitive company data, including a cache of internal tools, software development kits, and details about payouts to top streamers.

• Mozilla debuts new suggested search result feature for "surfacing relevant information" in the address bar of its Firefox web browser that, optionally, also includes content from paid advertisers, taking into account the users' location and search keywords.
• Google officially debuts an RSS reader functionality in Chrome for Android in the form of a "Follow" button, more than eight years after shutting down Google Reader, with plans to release the feature for iOS and desktop versions; reportedly working on Big Moments, a Search feature that contextualises and highlights the most authoritative facts about major events in real time.
• Apple files for an appeal and stay in the Epic Games ruling that would require it to change its App Store rules to allow developers to add in-app links to outside websites, paving the way for alternate payment options that do not require developers to use the in-app purchase system and threatening a profit engine for the company.
• Google's upcoming Pixel 6 phones to reportedly include a 50MP primary camera, with 12MP ultrawide and 48MP 4x telephoto lenses on Pro; promises five years of security updates and a new Magic Eraser feature that allows users to get rid of distractions, such as strangers and unwanted objects, in Google Photos.
• Facebook to put "more friends, less politics" in News Feed and will nudge teenagers away from harmful content and encourage them to "take a break" from the platform, following damning disclosures that the multimedia social network can have a negative effect on the mental health of young people, and that it "chooses profit over safety" and "stoke division" by tweaking algorithms that govern what shows up on users' news feeds to drive engagement.
• Online dating platform Tinder partners with ride hailing service Lyft for a new Explore hub that lets users buy a Lyft ride for their dates.