An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Gov. Newsom signs a law forbidding California-based businesses from providing users' personal info in response to other states' abortion-related search warrants (CNN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks (Andy Greenberg/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

SWIFT is working with blockchain data provider Chainlink on a cross-chain interoperability protocol to let SWIFT messages instruct on-chain token transfers (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Square launches support for Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers across the US, available within its Square Point of Sale app on the iPhone XS or newer (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Google Ventures has shelved its algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments (Dan Primack/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Major advertisers say they suspended marketing campaigns from Twitter because their promoted tweets appeared alongside tweets soliciting or selling child porn (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Google unveils search results with a "Discussions and forums" section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and with machine-translated news coverage, in early 2023 (Abner Li/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5