Arc fixed the aforementioned vulnerability within a day and paid the researcher 2000$ for identifying and helping to fix it.

Also stated that no Arc member is effected by this threat.

Official blog: https://arc.net/blog/CVE-2024-45489-incident-response

WhatsApp started testing the filters and backgrounds for camera attachments as well.

Previously this was working only for video calls and now it's been available throughout the app.

YouTube Music finally started synchronizing music with web and mobile.

GBoard widely tests the Scan Text feature which will let users quickly copy text using the camera.

Notebook LM added the ability to attach audio files and YouTube URLs as sources.

Users can add up to 50 sources per notebook.

Threads started rolling out insights/analytics for mobile as well.

WhatsApp testing channel insights for channel admins.

This will show various analytics metrics quite similar to how Instagram insights work.

Arc for Android version 0.0.42 released a new improved adaptive animation and UI improvements for browsing for me.

+ Now Arc can be set as a default browser, open external links and download files, block ads and trackers.

This is the most stable and usable version of Arc Android so far.

Google search results started showing new results labels "Preferred source" and "For You".

These labels showcase top and more personalized results respectively.

SEO people it's time to fight for new labels.

qBittorent popular Free Open Source torrent client (better uTorrent alternative) released v5.0.0 with a bunch of new features here are my favorites.
- Dark mode for Windows.
- Mark of the web support.
- Improved trackers management.

🔗 https://www.qbittorrent.org/

LinkedIn seemingly started focusing more on video content and they just introduced a new tab for their navigation bar called "Video" where it'll show a TikTok-like vertical video feed.

Just noticed that you can also upload code files to Gemini Advance.

WhatsApp is testing a new inline typing indicator for chats which is quite similar to other meta owned platforms like Instagram or Messenger.

Facebook started testing monetization for public posts such as reels, videos, photos and more.

You can join the wait-list here: https://creators.facebook.com/content-monetization-interest-form

Now you can share images to Gemini using the new share sheet entry.

Perplexity launched incognito mode for Android which will create temporary chat which will expire in 24 hrs.