Tech Roundup: China Deepfake Laws, Instagram Account Recovery Tool & More

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

• The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issues regulations that outlaw the creation of any artificial intelligence-generated media, including deepfakes, that aren't clearly labelled; to go into effect on January 10, 2023.
• Meta's Instagram launches a new hub to help users recover a hacked account, accessing an account after forgetting the password, and reporting impersonation accounts.
• Apple, Google, and Mozilla to collaborate on the development of Speedometer 3, a browser benchmark that "measures Web application responsiveness by timing simulated user interactions on various workloads."
• Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts "dedicated to sharing someone else's live location," as it begins to remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post (cross-posting to is not in violation of the policy); to shut down its newsletter platform Revue and delete all related data on January 18, 2023, after acquiring the company in January 2021.
• PayPal launches an integration with the MetaMask Web3 wallet for Ethereum transactions to all users in the U.S.
• Google debuts new Google Search Status Dashboard to highlight outages and issues with Google Search.
• Microsoft quietly updates its Terms of Service to prohibit cryptocurrency mining on Azure and other services without "prior written approval," citing "disruption or even impairment."
• Meta to shut down Super, a Cameo-like app that let users pay creators or celebrities to interact with them in a live stream, on February 15, 2023, and retire "Jobs on Facebook" on Facebook a week later on February 22; rolls out improvements to video and audio calling on WhatsApp.

• Tinder launches a new "Relationship Goals" feature that allows users to display their dating goals on their profile and help find connections that better align with what they're looking for.
• Microsoft partners with Viasat to expand internet access to 10 million people living in places like Africa and North and Central America; plans to add Teams chat in Outlook, mirroring Google's Chat integration with Gmail.
• Website comment hosting service Disqus gets a refresh with "bigger avatars for greater viewability, new looks for upvote/downvote and Favorite Discussion icons, and slightly larger fonts for display names and comments."
• Microsoft plans to unveil its "E.U. data boundary," letting cloud customers process and store data in the region, starting with customer data, from January 1, 2023.
• Google finishes rolling out the Matter smart home standard to Android and Nest devices, following Apple and Samsung; Amazon plans to support Matter by the end of 2022.
• Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data.
• Google begins beta testing digital state ID cards in its Android Wallet app for users in the U.S.
• Dropbox acquires FormSwift, a cloud-based service for helping businesses build, edit, approve, share, and print custom personalised documents, for US$ 95 million in cash.
• Adobe reports Q4 2022 revenue up 10% YoY to US$ 4.53 billion; Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to US$ 3.3 billion and Digital Experience revenue up 14% YoY to US$ 1.15 billion.