I'm Carl Kintanilla. You're listening to CNBC's Tech Check. Our show is live weekdays at 11 a.m. Eastern.

Listen in. Good Thursday morning and welcome to Tech Tech. I'm Georgia Bosa with John Ford and Julia

Borsten. Carl has the morning off. Today, Facebook targets the VR market and tests out Oculus

ads, an exclusive with the CEO of 23 and me as they go public through Richard Branson's spec.

And Satya Nadella adds the title of chairman to his LinkedIn.

Check out the Dow underperforming the rest of the market lower for a fourth straight day.

The longest losing streak since January, although stocks have put the brakes on yesterday's bed-induced slide,

the NASDA continues to lead on path for a fifth straight weekly gain, and tech is the top performing sector.

Yeah, and big tech regulation moves ahead.

A slew of bipartisan bills targeting giants like

Amazon and Google. Getting an extra boost yesterday with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler

backing up his colleagues on Capitol Hill. The world's biggest companies are opposed to many

global efforts to curb their growth. Apple's Tim Cook speaking yesterday at Viva Tech.

The current DMA language that is being discussed would force side loading on the iPhone.

And so this would be an alternate way of getting apps onto the iPhone. As we look at that,

that would destroy the security of the iPhone and a lot of the privacy

initiatives that we built into the app store. Cook, they're taking issue with the Digital

Markets Act, an EU proposal, which would designate large companies like Apple as gatekeepers

and crack down on their market dominance by restricting

data sharing and self-preferencing. Now, Cook praised other efforts like the Digital Services

Act, which would push for transparency on content moderation. Now, despite this bipartisan push to

regulate, there is still some opposition with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy.

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