Inside China's $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day (Rest of World) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing information on 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling sensitive info on millions of school children (Natasha Singer/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges (Matt Burgess/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

A look at the GOP's escalating pressure campaign against Google over Gmail's filters allegedly marking fundraising emails from right-wing candidates as spam (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 06:41 Rating: 5

A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks (Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook (Cal Newport/New Yorker) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan (Rieko Miki/Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in its sector collapse (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Dell XPS 13 Plus review: thin with a great OLED screen and a powerful P-series chip but expensive, gets very hot, mediocre battery life, and very few ports (Monica Chin/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk countersues Twitter over the merger agreement in a confidential filing in a Delaware court (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5