Tech Roundup: Apple App Store Change, Instagram Customisable Grid & More

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

• David Bennett, a 57-year-old man from the U.S. becomes the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig in what's a groundbreaking seven-hour-long surgery.
• Meta-owned Instagram tests customisable profile grid, allowing users to reorder posts of their choice; faces fresh setback after a U.S. court rules that the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) amended suit alleging Meta holds an unlawful monopoly in personal social networking services can move forward, after a ruling last year threw out FTC's complaint over lack of evidence.
• Apple to allow third-party payment options for the first time in South Korea, after the country passed new legislation last year banning app store operators from forcing their own in-app purchase systems. (Apple's 30% fee on digital purchases made by consumers using iOS apps has been the heart of many a controversy recently, prompting the company to make a tiny concession to "reader apps" like Netflix, allowing them to link to websites to sign up users for new accounts, but that’s nothing like allowing in-app third-party payments.)
• Twitter rolls out new feature that prevents "Events from accounts you've blocked or muted" from appearing "in your Explore tab, 'What's happening' sidebar and emails, or Event-based notifications."

• WordPress-owned Tumblr adds a sensitive content toggle on iOS to comply with App Store rules for viewing posts of sensitive or explicit nature.
• Mozilla expands Total Cookie Protection, a privacy feature aimed at prohibiting cross-site tracking that's designed to force all sites to keep their cookies in separate "jars" to block attempts to track users across the web and build browsing profiles, to its Firefox Focus app for Android, almost a year after rolling out the feature on desktop web in February 2021.
• Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) seeks records from Binance as part of a probe into a scam alleging Binance wallets and integrated apps were used to defraud nearly US$ 100 million from thousands of users in the country.
• IBM acquires Envizi, a company that provides software for managing emissions and carbon accounting, as well as environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, for an undisclosed sum; to integrate Envizi's software with its existing systems used for environmental sustainability management, including its Environmental Intelligence Suite, Maximo asset management and Sterling supply-chain software.