Spotify CEO addresses Rogan controversy in email to staff, commits $100M to licensing, development, marketing of content from historically marginalized groups (J. Clara Chan/The Hollywood Reporter) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Crypto faces a backlash from gamers because NFTs are often a way for game developers to extract more money, whereas music fans treat NFTs more like souvenirs (Casey Newton/Platformer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:42 Rating: 5

Twitter tests adding a DM icon to tweets on iOS to help "start a conversation"; some say the shortcut could make users even more susceptible to harassment (Emma Roth/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Got a new Apple Watch Series 6? Get a screen protector. - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:11 Rating: 5

Koho, a challenger bank that lets Canadian users access up to 50% of their paycheck every day, raises a CAD$210M Series D in equity and debt led by Eldridge (Douglas Soltys/BetaKit) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

The Washington State Department of Licensing says over 250,000 licensed professionals may have had personal data exposed, including SSNs, in a database breach (The Seattle Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Source: Spotify took down episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience at Rogan's request; all the removed episodes were recorded before he signed a deal with Spotify (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Protect your MacBook Pro on the go with one of these cases - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:11 Rating: 5

Brazil-based Gupy, which uses AI to help around 1,500 companies select, hire, and train employees, raises ~$93M led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Riverwood (Aluisio Alves/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Meta, which ignored creators for years, has only "shameless" creators and their awful content to fall back on in its pivot to video and eventual irrelevance (Ryan Broderick/Garbage Day) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5