DeFi Llama: the total value locked in DeFi has dropped by 12%+ in the past day, after hovering around $50B to $60B since June 2022 and $180B+ in December 2021 (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Report: Twitter filed to register with the US Treasury to process payments; source: Twitter is working on a product that accepts cryptocurrencies including DOGE (Becky Peterson/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Italian court upholds a ban against Cloudflare resolving DNS queries for three torrent sites, after Cloudflare appealed saying it would result in a global ban (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Research suggests Apple collects data about iPhone usage even when the iPhone Analytics setting to "disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether" is off (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in its Q4, above Netflix's 223.1M in its Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

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