Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps (Neha Wadekar/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

As the US passes its CHIPS+ Act, China plans to invest ~$150B+ through 2030 on chips, South Korea eyes $260B in chip investments by 2027, and the EU plans $40B (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets (Water & Music) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games (Shannon Liao/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act (Emma Roth/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products" (Gizmodo) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Inside China's $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day (Rest of World) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing information on 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling sensitive info on millions of school children (Natasha Singer/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges (Matt Burgess/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

A look at the GOP's escalating pressure campaign against Google over Gmail's filters allegedly marking fundraising emails from right-wing candidates as spam (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 06:41 Rating: 5

A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks (Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook (Cal Newport/New Yorker) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan (Rieko Miki/Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in its sector collapse (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Dell XPS 13 Plus review: thin with a great OLED screen and a powerful P-series chip but expensive, gets very hot, mediocre battery life, and very few ports (Monica Chin/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk countersues Twitter over the merger agreement in a confidential filing in a Delaware court (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Global smartphone shipments fell 7% YoY to 291M units in Q2 2022; Samsung had a 21.5% market share, followed by Apple's 16.3%, its best Q2 in the past 10 years (Strategy Analytics) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Brazilian prosecutors ask WhatsApp to delay its Communities feature launch in Brazil until January to avoid spreading misinformation around the October election (Anthony Boadle/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Crypto network Helium claimed for years that Lime is a client, but Lime says the claim is false; source: Lime is preparing to send a cease and desist to Helium (Matt Binder/Mashable) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the company's post-IPO stock plunge, catering to its most active users, job cuts, reining in expenses, and more (Annie Massa/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

SEC adds Alibaba to a list of Chinese companies facing delisting in three years if they fail to comply with US auditing standards; Alibaba stock is down 9%+ (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Variant, an early stage crypto-focused fund, has raised $450M for a third fund focused on the "user-owned web", after previously raising $22.5M and $110M (Taylor Locke/Fortune) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Ashraf Ismail, who Ubisoft fired in mid-2020 amid misconduct allegations, was hired by Tencent in 2021 to develop a game at its TiMi Studio Group (Stephen Totilo/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty (Salvador Rodriguez/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5