Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, August 24th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today President Biden is gathering the Tech Five families to discuss cybersecurity. Instagram is retired. is

retiring retiring swipe up.

Facebook is testing a rebundle of messenger. Airbnb will house Afghan refugees,

SpaceX hits some milestones, and a Samsung review roundup.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

I hope this is more of a setting the stage for a major marshal plan like plan of

action rather than just a photo op but apparently Tim Cook, Sucha Nadella, and Andy Jesse are among the

tech executives attending a meeting at the White House with Joe Biden today to

discuss efforts to improve cyber security, quoting Bloomberg.

The executives could discuss efforts undertaken by critical infrastructure entities, including

those in the banking, energy, and water utility sectors, to improve cyber security and collaborations with the government.

The tech executives are likely to discuss how software can drive better security in the supply

chain, according to a senior official familiar with the event.

The chief executives of companies including

Alphabet's Google, International Business Machines, Southern Company, and J.P. Morgan Chase and company have

also been invited, the senior official said, end quote.

I say I hope this is substance over optics because we need true collaboration on this.

Public and private sector, yes, tech is the vector of attack so the tech companies

need to play their part, but especially with the nation-state-sponsored

activity that we've seen, this is largely a geopolitical situation so the government needs to give direction here.

Instagram says it is retiring the swipe-up link feature which lets users visit

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