Former Samsung president Lee Jae-yong has been pardoned by South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol. The businessman had been convicted of bribery and had a labor ban as part of that. The motivation for the grace is to stimulate the economy.

Google has been fined A$60 million for misleading Australian citizens with its location data settings. The federal court ruled in April last year that Google had broken the law, but the fine has only now been announced.

Facebook has begun testing end-to-end encryption enabled by default on Facebook Messenger. The chat service already offered the functionality, but this still has to be enabled manually.

The appeal in last year’s lawsuit between Apple and Epic Games is set for October 21, FOSS Patents says. Both companies appealed the ruling and are allowed to plead their cases on that day.

The data of a small number of users of Authy, a two-step authentication app, was stolen in a hack of parent company Twilio. It concerns a total of 125 users, the company reports.

Spotify is releasing a modified home screen design this week, first for the Android app and later for the iOS variant. The audio application now displays enhanced personalized suggestions across the Music and Podcasts & Shows categories.

Activision Blizzard will stop selling loot boxes in Overwatch after the current Anniversary Remix event. Players will therefore no longer be able to spend real money on loot boxes from August 30, but can still earn them by playing the game.

Netflix will roughly double the number of mobile games that can be downloaded via the streaming service by 2022. There are currently 26 games available for free to Netflix subscribers, and there should be 50.

Snapchat has gone live with Family Center, its parental controls feature. The feature allows parents to see their children’s friends list and see who they are interacting with. The feature does not affect many other parts of the app.

WhatsApp now gives users 2.5 days to delete messages, the chat app has announced. The Meta subsidiary gave users just over an hour to delete messages, but that limit has now been stretched.