Sources: as Apple launches MLS Season Pass, the company is shopping ad packages for up to ~$4M per season, without guaranteeing advertisers viewership numbers (Gerry Smith/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5

PayPal says it will lay off around 2,000 employees, about 7% of its workforce, "over the coming weeks" (CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5

A look at US cases that may define the bounds of free speech online, including Gonzalez v. Google, Twitter v. Taamneh, and a fight over CA's kid safety law (Lauren Feiner/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:42 Rating: 5

A National Labor Relations Board judge rules Amazon violated US federal labor laws as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two New York City facilities (Robert Iafolla/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:46 Rating: 5

Alameda Research sues Voyager Digital for more than $445.8M, seeking to recover loan repayments that it made after Voyager filed for bankruptcy in July 2022 (Stephanie Murray/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:42 Rating: 5

A look at MetaBirkins, 100 NFTs created by a self-described entrepreneur and artist in 2021, as Hermès goes to court in NYC seeking to stop the use of its brand (Erin Mulvaney/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:45 Rating: 5

Sources: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony won't be part of E3 to be held in-person from June 13 to June 16, 2023; conference didn't happen in 2022 due to COVID-19 (Kat Bailey/IGN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:44 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter made its first interest payment under Elon Musk to a group of seven banks; the payment was due around January 27 and estimated to be ~$300M (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:43 Rating: 5

After layoffs, Meta, which used remote work during the pandemic to advance its diversity goals, now faces an uphill battle to continue making progress with DEI (Naomi Nix/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 03:43 Rating: 5

Kuo: Apple plans to release a foldable iPad in 2024, featuring a carbon fiber kickstand, as well as an updated iPad mini, after a quiet 2023 for the iPad (Jon Porter/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:42 Rating: 5

The memory-chip sector, known for boom-and-bust cycles, is facing one if its worst-ever routs, as inventory glut and a fight for marketshare has cratered prices (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 00:42 Rating: 5

Documents: China's top nuclear weapons research lab, on the US export entity list since 1997, bought 7nm to 14nm Intel and Nvidia chips several times since 2020 (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:42 Rating: 5

Source: Baidu is planning to launch an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT in March 2023, initially embedding it into its main search services (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Researchers detail how ProGen, an LLM trained on 280M proteins, designed proteins with anti-microbial properties that were tested in real life and shown to work (Karmela Padavic-Callaghan/New Scientist) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 04:41 Rating: 5

How the "enshittification" cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Toronto-based Smile CDR, which offers services for health and clinical data interoperability, raised a ~$30M Series B led by UPMC Enterprises and others (Charlize Alcaraz/BetaKit) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

OpenWeb, which helps outlets target readers with ads and manage comments, acquires Jeeng, an audience management service used by over 650 publishers, for $100M (CTech) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis (David Ingram/NBC News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Meme-stock mania companies, including GameStop and AMC Entertainment, have raised $4.7B since the hype began in January 2021, but failed to boost performance (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Princeton CS professor Arvind Narayanan on why he calls ChatGPT a "bullshit generator", his worries over its boom, developing his AI taxonomy, and more (Julia Angwin/The Markup) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US' general counsel, a potential witness, and asks a judge to ban his private communications (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster with AI amid the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:43 Rating: 5

New York City-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to speed up clinical trials, launches with a $203M Series A (Maureen Farrell/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

Counterpoint: China's smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country's No. 2 brand (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:46 Rating: 5

Indian gig economy workers for Uber, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy, and others deal with blocked accounts for up to weeks, after speaking out on poor working conditions (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:42 Rating: 5