Researchers find thousands of repos on GitHub offering fake proof-of-concept exploits for various vulnerabilities, with many of them containing malware instead (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

FTX to provide $6M in compensation to account holders impacted by a phishing incident via a 3rd-party site but says this kind of relief will not become the norm (Sunil Jagtiani/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

An interview with eBay CEO Jamie Iannone on eBay's strategy to focus on the second-hand luxury market, as its market value has fallen from $53B in 2021 to $21B (Dave Lee/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

In his memoir, Bono details making a deal with Steve Jobs for the U2 iPod in October 2004 and convincing Tim Cook to give away an iTunes album in September 2014 (Bono/The Guardian) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

The Wire retracts its recent stories on Meta and says it is using "independent external experts" to conduct an investigation into its Meta coverage (The Wire) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Canalys: smartphone shipments in India fell 6% YoY to 44.6M units in Q3 2022; Xiaomi shipped 9.2M units, down 18% YoY, for a 21% share, followed by Samsung (Tracy Qu/South China Morning Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Interpol unveils a metaverse for law enforcement worldwide, allowing users to tour the virtual version of its HQ, take training courses in VR, and more (Jessica Lyons Hardcastle/The Register) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Chicago-based Tempus, which uses AI for drug discovery, clinical trials, and diagnostics, raised $275M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to $1.3B+ (Keerthi Vedantam/Crunchbase News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Podcast app Pocket Casts, which WordPress parent company Automattic acquired in July 2021, releases its mobile clients on GitHub under an open-source license (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Apple will expand ads to the App Store's main Today tab and "You Might Also Like" section of individual app listings, starting October 25 globally except China (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5