Tech Roundup: Meta GIPHY Fines, Twitter Downvote Feature & More

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

• The U.K. updates its Online Safety Bill proposal to outlaw content featuring revenge porn, drug and weapons dealing, suicide promotion, people smuggling and fraud on social media sites including Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.
• Apple announces plans to charge third-party developers a 27% commission (nearly as high as the regular 30% cut) for purchases made via alternate payment systems, even in scenarios when the developers "include an in-app link directing users to the developer's website to complete a purchase"; comes following changes ordered by the Netherlands regulator to allow dating apps to use a third-party in-app payment provider for making in-app purchases.
• From the looks of it, it appears that Apple crafted the rules in a manner that ensure compliance but also with the goal of dissuading developers from using third-party payment systems altogether. The tech giant has maintained that it is opposed to offering alternative payments, which it says "will compromise the user experience, and create new threats to user privacy and data security."
• Google updates Google Chrome's icon with new shades of green, red, yellow and blue, marking the first change in eight years since 2014, as the internet giant readies to launch its 100th major version of the web browser.

• Google to reportedly deprioritise its Stadia cloud game streaming service in favour of a new service called Google Stream that aims to pursue white-label deals with other companies to adopt its core technology into their own products.
• Meta rolls out a new feature called Personal Boundary in its Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues virtual reality spaces to combat harassment; gets fined by the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) £1.5 million for its failure to alert the regulator in advance of key staff members leaving the company in relation to its 2020 acquisition of GIPHY.
• Twitter expands downvotes globally in a bid to "surface the most relevant replies within Tweets."
• Apple reduces the initial free-trial offer for Apple Music streaming service from three months to one; to continue offering six-month Apple Music trials for new subscribers who purchase eligible audio products such as AirPods Pro, AirPods 2, AirPods 3, AirPods Max, Beats and HomePod mini.
• Social audio and chat service Discord begins testing forums, new moderator tools and homepages that surface hot topics in select servers.