Source: Twitter is telling advertisers the site added 15M+ mDAUs since the end of Q2, "crossing the quarter billion mark"; Musk also tweeted user numbers are up (Alex Heath/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Some NFT marketplaces stop honoring NFT royalties, usually a ~5-10% fee set by the creator and paid by sellers on secondary market sales, rocking the community (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

An interview with YouTube Shorts Director of Product Management Todd Sherman on UI challenges as YouTube rolls out the TikTok competitor to its TV apps (David Pierce/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

BlockFi debuts a digital assets interest product for US accredited investors, after shutting down a yield-paying crypto product the SEC said was illegal (Tomio Geron/Protocol) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Mastodon's German-born founder and lead dev Eugen Rochko, on how a federated approach to social media mitigates hateful speech, why he built it, more (Billy Perrigo/TIME) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk tweets that "any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying 'parody' will be permanently suspended" without warning (Richard Lawler/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Apple says it expects iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max shipments to be lower than anticipated due to COVID-19 restrictions at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Meta plans to lay off thousands of employees this week, with an announcement expected as soon as Wednesday, the first broad layoffs in its history (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter is asking dozens of laid-off staff to return, after realizing some are needed for building prioritized features and some were sacked by mistake (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

An investigation details India's "hack-for-hire" industry that helps global corporate intelligence clients target businesses, journalists, and politicians (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5