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Tinder adds real-time safety tracking, and more tech news you need to know
July 18, 2025
1. Tinder Dates with panic buttons and safety check-ins
Match Group, owner of Tinder,is taking a stake in security-focused app Noonlight (WSJ), and is set to bring the best of Noonlight’s protections into Tinder for when dates between strangers happen in real-life, off the app:
Next steps:
Real-time monitoring:
2.In Bezos phone hack, UN wants answers on Saudi prince’s alleged role(CNET). Also,here is the technical report suggesting Saudi Arabia’s prince hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone(Vice). There are some well-founded criticisms emerging around the report’s findings in the updated article from Vice, and from folks like@alexstamos(Twitter).
3.This might be the future of dual-screen apps on Android, and it comes from Microsoft. And credit where it’s due, the company seems to be answering all the questions about dual-screen devices, seams, multitasking, and so on, in smart ways (Android Authority).
4.Motorola Razr preorders start on January 26 at Verizon(Android Authority).
5.Poco’s next smartphone confirmed to launch in this quarter(Android Authority).
6.Visible changed this rural Missouri-based techie’s life for the better(Android Authority).
7.Would the Coronavirus quarantine of Wuhan even work?(Wired). It’s hard to shut down a megacity of 11 million people. Also,HUAWEI developer conference postponed due to Wuhan coronavirus, now in March (The Verge).
8.Microsoft accidentally exposed 250 million customer service records(Engadget), and, possibly worse,Microsoft is using Office 365 to force Bing search in Chrome, for enterprise users, and to immediate backlash (9to5Google).
- “Unauthorized Bread“—a tale of rebellions involve jailbreaking IoT toasters—is the lead novella in author Cory Doctorow’sRadicalizedbook. Here’s an excerpt, and it’s good! (Ars Technica). And why not, here’sanother book excerpt, this one fromHumble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real Worldby Matt Parker: “When Avery Blank was in law school, she had difficulty getting an internship because her applications were not taken seriously. People would see “Blank” in the surname field and assume it was an incomplete application. She always had to get in touch and convince the selection committee that she was a real human.” (OneZero).
10.Scientists have discovered fossils of a fungal lifeform that lived between 715 and 810 million years ago, long before the dawn of complex life, changing Earth’s evolutionary timeline (Wired).
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