The SEC says 16 Wall Street firms have agreed to pay $1.1B in combined penalties for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Lyft says it is freezing all hiring in the US through the end of 2022 (Theo Wayt/New York Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Intel plans to launch its Arc A770 graphics card for $329 on October 12, hoping to compete with Nvidia's budget GeForce RTX 3060 on price and performance (Jacob Ridley/PC Gamer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

MPCH Labs, which is developing a cryptographic technique to split and store private keys for multiple users, raised a $40M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Sources: FTX won the auction for the assets of bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital with a bid of ~$50M, a price that could climb if certain milestones met (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

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