Q&A with iHeartMedia's Conal Byrne on overseeing podcasting at the company, the industry maturing, RSS, radio and podcast ads, subscriptions, and exclusivity (Nilay Patel/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

HP reports Q1 revenue down 19% YoY to $13.8B, vs. $14.1B est., Personal Systems net revenue down 24% YoY to $9.2B, and Printing net revenue down 5% YoY to $4.6B (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Decentralized social network Bluesky debuts in the iOS App Store as an invite-only beta; Twitter started Bluesky in 2019 and spun off the project in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Typeface, which offers generative AI for marketing copy and images, emerges from stealth with $65M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, M12, and Menlo Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

US-based MKS Instruments, a little-known but key chip equipment supplier, says a "ransomware event" on "production-related systems" will cause delays into March (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT (Jon Victor/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

DCG reports 2022 revenue of $719M and a loss of $1.1B as the firm struggled with plunging crypto prices and the restructuring of its lending platform, Genesis (Ian Allison/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have TikTok installed on government devices and adjust IT contracts with vendors accordingly (David Shepardson/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Meta is forming a team to get generative AI into its products, led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, who joined Meta in 2020 after 16 years at Apple and reports to Chris Cox (Ina Fried/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Delaware-based Pagos, a payments startup with clients like Adobe, Eventbrite, GoFundMe, and Warner Bros. Discovery, raised a $34M Series A led by Arbor Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple has restarted work on an iPhone SE 4 with a 6.1" OLED screen and an Apple-designed 5G modem; Ross Young: China's BOE will supply the display (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 03:41 Rating: 5

Filing: China Renaissance says founder Bao Fan is "co-operating in an investigation", more than a week after disclosing his unexplained disappearance (Hudson Lockett/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

Some crypto projects are abandoning terms like NFTs, which became associated with unsavory get-rich-quick scams, in favor of terms like "digital collectibles" (Stephen Graves/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Some experts, particularly those advocating for "ethical AI" or "responsible AI", say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous to the public (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off on Saturday, including Twitter's product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper (Emma Roth/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Source: Esther Crawford, who became one of the most influential executives at Twitter after Musk's takeover, is out as Director of Product Management (Zoë Schiffer/@zoeschiffer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Boston-based Electra Vehicles, which provides AI-based cloud and onboard software for EV battery systems optimization, raised $21M led by United Ventures (Silicon Canals) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators say they are often being asked to prove that they're human (Kate Lindsay/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson about inventing the metaverse concept, his blockchain startup Lamina1, not using ChatGPT to help write novels, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; China accounted for 55% of filings, the US accounted for 26%, and UK for 0.26% (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen's board, after the startup offered a "pay to play" deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Experts caution the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond toward automation, creating a dangerous slippery slope (Morgan Meaker/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Amazon plans to integrate its logistics network and SaaS tools with India's Open Network for Digital Commerce, after Paytm and others committed to joining ONDC (Moneycontrol) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5