Source: NSO Group, which has ~$400M in debt, cut 15% of its workforce and raised prices by ~20% after a potential sale to defense contractor L3Harris collapsed (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Twitter rolls out its new Blue subscription, which offers a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS and Android in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Filing: Apple settles lawsuit against an ex-employee accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with the media; he will pay an undisclosed sum to Apple (Jay Peters/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

The DOJ charges two former MoviePass execs in a securities fraud case, claiming they sought to artificially inflate the stock price of MoviePass' parent company (Jason Guerrasio/Insider) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Apple is building an advertising network for live television as part of its deal to stream Major League Soccer games from February 2023 (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

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