Microsoft says China-based nation state threat actors are abusing the country's vulnerability disclosure requirements to discover and develop zero-day exploits (Jonathan Greig/The Record) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter's layoffs hit teams such as product trust and safety, policy, ethical AI, and fighting election misinformation ahead of next week's US midterms (The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

The head of Instagram Adam Mosseri talks about balancing the urgency to make Reels work for Meta and not making "any mistakes by pushing too hard or too fast" (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Block Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $4.52B, vs. $4.49B est., gross profit up 38% YoY to $1.57B, vs. $1.53B est., and Cash App gross profit up 51% YoY; stock up 12%+ (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Coinbase Q3: net revenue down 28% QoQ to $576M, net loss down 50% to $545M, subscription and services revenue up 43%, and monthly transacting users down to 8.5M (Nelson Wang/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

DoorDash reports Q3 revenue up 33% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.62B est., orders up 27% YoY to 439M, and net loss of $296M; stock is up 14%+ on strong Q4 guidance (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

US political groups are increasingly using influencers, a practice the FEC's campaign finance laws do not regulate, relying on an honor system for disclosures (Stephanie Lai/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Google unveils an AI model trained on 400+ languages with the largest "coverage seen in a speech model" and plans to support the 1,000 most spoken languages (James Vincent/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Amazon pauses hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, after announcing in October plans to freeze hiring for corporate roles in its retail business (Annie Palmer/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

NFT startup Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties, confirms it laid off ~134 employees or 22% of its workforce; Dapper Labs raised $600M to date (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5