Prosus Ventures terminates its deal to acquire Indian payments company BillDesk for $4.7B in cash, saying "certain conditions precedent" were unfulfilled (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

Kentik: Iran's three main mobile operators shut down service for about eight hours in the evening for 10 consecutive days, causing an uptick in landline traffic (Dan De Luce/NBC News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

NXP Semiconductors' CEO estimates the EU must invest €500B to hit its goal of a 20% global share in chips by 2030, well short of the EU Chips Act's €43B package (Tristan Fiedler/Politico) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

New Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 found using 0-click exploits, after the new president called Pegasus a thing of the past (The Citizen Lab) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content, tech companies are gaming out responses to the state's social media law (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10M from the crypto lender weeks before freezing customer accounts; one source says $8M was used to pay taxes (Kadhim Shubber/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a US lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped her in 2018 (Amy Forliti/Associated Press) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

SoftBank, which bought a 10% stake in Twilio competitor Sinch in November 2020, sells its remaining 5% stake; Sinch's stock has fallen 93% since September 2021 (Anton Wilen/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Bengaluru-based Juno, which works with US payroll services to offer checking accounts that give users their paychecks in digital tokens, raised an $18M Series A (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5 (Nate Hopper/New Yorker) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5