Some YouTube viewers say ads on the platform have been expanding greatly in length and quantity recently, with reports of five to 10 unskippable ads per break (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Amazon will roll out Customers Ask Alexa, which lets brands answer some common customer questions and provide links to their storefronts, starting in late 2022 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Google cancels Qaya, which offered storefronts for creators, and six other projects out of the 14 housed at its incubator Area 120, as it shifts its focus to AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Users say a demo of ERNIE-ViLG, a text-to-image AI model from Baidu, labels certain political words as "sensitive" and blocks them from generating any result (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Intel, Arm, and Nvidia propose a new open, license-free specification with 8-bit floating point, or FP8, precision as a common interchange format for AI (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining firm, will shut down its servers for miners after Ethereum's Merge, switching its mining pool to withdraw-only mode (David Pan/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Canva unveils new products Docs, Websites, Whiteboards, and Data Visualization, brings background removing to videos, and adds a remote control to Presentations (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 587 into law, requiring social networks to share moderation rules, despite concerns it may violate the First Amendment (Adi Robertson/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

EA says it plans to debut EA AntiCheat, a kernel-level anti-cheat system for some PC games, due to cheat developers increasingly building kernel-level exploits (Kris Holt/Engadget) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

The US Treasury clarifies its guidance on Tornado Cash and provides a way for users to lawfully withdraw their funds by applying for a license (Brady Dale/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5