Netflix to open a new game studio in Helsinki "built from scratch" and led by ex-Zynga Vice President and General Manager Marko Lastikka (Cheri Faulkner/NME) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas' content moderation law by mandating that comments include "Greg Abbott is a little piss baby" (Mike Masnick/Techdirt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Walmart debuts Walmart Land and Walmart's Universe of Play as metaverse experiences in Roblox, which it calls a testing ground, to try to reach younger shoppers (Melissa Repko/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

NY, CA, and several other states take action against crypto lender Nexo, from sending cease and desists to suing, with interest-bearing accounts a main focus (Michael McSweeney/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Sources: crypto derivatives exchange Deribit raised ~$40M from existing investors at a $400M valuation; source: it raised $100M in 2021 at a $2.1B valuation (Yogita Khatri/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Researchers find 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple's App Store that engaged in ad fraud, collectively had 13M installs, and have since been removed (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Amazon confirms a second two-day shopping event for 2022 named Prime Early Access Sale, to be held on October 11-12 in 15 countries including the US and the UK (The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 00:41 Rating: 5

Apple confirms that a Foxconn plant near Chennai is manufacturing iPhone 14 models; locally assembled phones will be sold in India later in 2022 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user's plausible pose from only the Quest 2's sensors using reinforcement learning (David Heaney/UploadVR) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes (Andy Greenberg/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5