NortonLifeLock says that it will merge with Avast in a cash and stock deal worth between $8.1B and $8.6B (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Unity reports Q2 revenue of $273.6M, up 48% YoY, and says it will acquire remote desktop and streaming company Parsec for ~$320M (TJ Denzer/Shacknews) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Source: the NSA awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS; Microsoft has filed a bid protest with the GAO in response (Frank Konkel/Nextgov) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

The 2022 iPhones and Macs may feature 3nm processors - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:11 Rating: 5

Coinbase reports $2.23B in Q2 revenue, vs $1.78B est, and net profit of $1.6B, up nearly 4,900% YoY, following volatile stretch of cryptocurrency trading (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

OpenAI debuts a private beta for Codex, an API for turning natural language into code of one of over a dozen coding languages; Codex powers GitHub's Copilot (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

BitMEX announces a $100M settlement with the CFTC and FinCEN over shortcomings in its anti-money laundering and know-your-customer oversight systems (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft will now require admin rights before Windows users can access the Point and Print feature, to mitigate a security flaw it has already tried to patch (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Apple Child Safety & CSAM Detection — Truth, lies, and technical details - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:11 Rating: 5

Xiaomi announces the Mix 4 smartphone with a bezel-less design and an under-display selfie camera, launching in China for ~$770 (Sam Byford/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5