Tech Roundup: Clearview AI Greece Fines, Google Chrome OS Flex & More

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

• Meta's Facebook tests a way for users to have up to five separate profiles tied to a single account, as the company looks for new ways to encourage users to stay on the platform amid increased competition from rivals; rolls out new creator features in Instagram that allows users to lock photos and Reels behind a subscription paywall.
• Google releases Chrome OS Flex, a Chrome OS version for businesses and schools to run on over 400 old PC and Mac models, after fixing more than 600 bugs since February 2022.
• Amazon offers to limit its use of "non-public marketplace seller data" and make changes to "Buy Box" rankings in a bid to settle antitrust concerns over its dual role as a platform, where it runs an online marketplace for sellers to offer their products while simultaneously selling its own products in direct competition, enabling it undercut rivals.
• Italy's competition authority AGCM launches an investigation against Google over allegations that it hindered interoperability with other platforms, including Weople.
• Facial recognition company Clearview AI faces fresh setback after Greece's Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) fines it €20 million for violation GDPR laws; orders it to halt the practice of scrapping selfies and photos from public social media accounts belonging to its citizens and delete all information previously harvested. (It's the sixth time Clearview has been ordered to delete national data in this way, following similar orders and fines issued in Australia, Canada, France, Italy and the U.K.)
• Microsoft to reportedly return to a schedule where it releases a new major version of Windows roughly once every three years, tentatively putting Windows 12 on track for release in late 2024.
• The maintainers of Tor anonymity browser release version 11.5 with a new feature called "Connection Assist" that makes it possible for users to automatically evade censorship.
• Chipmaker Intel to raise prices on its flagship CPUs and a wide range of other chips later this year, including Wi-Fi and other connectivity chips by as much as 20% amid rising costs for production and materials, leading to more PC and laptop price increases.