The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control adds a designation to Tornado Cash that ties the crypto mixer to North Korea's nuclear weapons program (Kollen Post/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Coinbase's stock tumbles 12%+ and Robinhood Markets falls by 17%+ as the Binance-FTX deal puts a spotlight on the challenges facing the crypto industry (Divya Balji/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

A look at data brokers selling campaigns "comprehensive" profiles on potential voters, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time ad auctions (Jon Keegan/The Markup) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Activision Blizzard reports Q3 net bookings down 3% YoY to $1.83B vs. $1.7B est., and MAUs down 6% YoY to 368M; Modern Warfare II made $1B+ in its first 10 days (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a Stories feature to iOS and Android; users' Stories will automatically expire after 24 hours (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

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