India's market regulator tightens IPO disclosure norms after recent lackluster performance of tech startups; firms must disclose KPIs and past pricing details (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

At Tesla AI Day, Musk reveals a protoype of Optimus, a humanoid robot that uses Tesla' AI and advanced driver assist features, expects to cost less than $20K (The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

NYC-based Grow Therapy, which offers tools for mental health providers to set up virtual practices, raised a $75M Series B, bringing its total funding to $90M (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Japan says it will provide Micron a subsidy of up to ~$322M to help the company produce advanced memory chips at a Hiroshima factory (Mari Yamaguchi/Associated Press) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

SEC filing: Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye files for an IPO and reports a H1 2022 revenue of $854M, up 21% from H1 2021 (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm (Emily Baker-White/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Court filing: Jack Dorsey told Elon Musk he tried to add Musk to Twitter's board, but felt the board was too "risk averse" (Lauren Feiner/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Gov. Newsom signs a law forbidding California-based businesses from providing users' personal info in response to other states' abortion-related search warrants (CNN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks (Andy Greenberg/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

SWIFT is working with blockchain data provider Chainlink on a cross-chain interoperability protocol to let SWIFT messages instruct on-chain token transfers (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Square launches support for Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers across the US, available within its Square Point of Sale app on the iPhone XS or newer (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Google Ventures has shelved its algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments (Dan Primack/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Major advertisers say they suspended marketing campaigns from Twitter because their promoted tweets appeared alongside tweets soliciting or selling child porn (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Google unveils search results with a "Discussions and forums" section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and with machine-translated news coverage, in early 2023 (Abner Li/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

DocuSign will lay off 9% of staff as part of a major restructuring to be completed by 2023 end, incurring charges of $30M-$40M; it had 7,461 staffers in January (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Google says its multisearch tool, which lets users search using both images and text, will expand to more than 70 languages in the next few months (Jay Peters/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

VK, which owns Mail.ru and Russia's largest social network VKontakte, says Apple has removed its apps from the App Store (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Court filing: Elon Musk's deposition by Twitter's lawyers has been rescheduled to October 6 and 7 (The Guardian) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

The SEC says 16 Wall Street firms have agreed to pay $1.1B in combined penalties for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Lyft says it is freezing all hiring in the US through the end of 2022 (Theo Wayt/New York Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Intel plans to launch its Arc A770 graphics card for $329 on October 12, hoping to compete with Nvidia's budget GeForce RTX 3060 on price and performance (Jacob Ridley/PC Gamer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

MPCH Labs, which is developing a cryptographic technique to split and store private keys for multiple users, raised a $40M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Sources: FTX won the auction for the assets of bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital with a bid of ~$50M, a price that could climb if certain milestones met (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5