A profile of Peiter Zatko, who worked at DARPA, Google, and Stripe before working at Twitter, and was a member of hacker groups L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow (Joseph Menn/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Amazon unveils Alexa Game Control, a natural language voice tool for gamers to perform in-game actions, launching Feb. 2023 on Xbox and PC with Dead Island 2 (Jay Peters/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Court filing: the FTC agrees to drop Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in a suit to block Meta's Within acquisition after Meta vowed he wouldn't buy it personally (Cecilia Kang/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

TikTok is testing a new "Nearby" feed with select users in Southeast Asia that displays local content to users, alongside a location tag feature for creators (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Yelp will add a note on crisis pregnancy center pages to distinguish them from clinics with abortion services, amid pressure on Google to clarify search results (Ina Fried/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Orange DAO, a group of over 1,000 Y Combinator alumni that backs web3 startups, raises $80M in funding, mainly from strategic investors Algorand and Near (Anita Ramaswamy/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Flow's Adam Neumann seems to have a conflict of interest given he is the largest investor in real estate tech startup Alfred and had board seats there until May (Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Instagram is internally testing Candid Challenges, a BeReal-like feature that gives users two minutes to take and share a photo at a different time each day (Karissa Bell/Engadget) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

LockBit ransomware's leak sites suffer a DDoS attack after it claimed responsibility for breaching Entrust in June; LockBit blames Entrust for the DDoS attack (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:43 Rating: 5

Sources: in Q2 Instacart's revenue rose 39% YoY to $621M, orders increased 25% YoY to 60M+, and order volume rose 21% YoY to $7.1B, as the company plans its IPO (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5