A book excerpt details how companies like RELX and Thomson Reuters collect and sell user data, exploiting a lack of privacy laws as regulators focus on Big Tech (Sarah Lamdan/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Crypto.com shares its wallet addresses with Nansen to create a dashboard of ~$3B in assets, showing ~20% are in Shiba Inu, more than ETH's ~17%; ~30% are in BTC (Sage D. Young/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

An internal Twitter log shows that more than 140,000 accounts had signed up for the new Twitter Blue as of Thursday, November 10 (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Meta tells employees it plans to exit its Portal smart display business and wind down smartwatch projects, and that 46% of the 11K jobs cut were in technology (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Alibaba doesn't disclose its Singles' Day sales for the first time, instead saying gross merchandise value was in line with 2021, when it had $76.1B in sales (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Europol says it has arrested Russian national in Canada linked to LockBit ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure organizations and high-profile companies (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter's head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth and head of sales Robin Wheeler resigned today (Kurt Wagner/@kurtwagner8) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

AMD announces its 4th-gen Epyc Genoa chips, based on the Zen 4 architecture, with up to 96 cores and support for DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and Compute Express Link (Tobias Mann/The Register) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: SBF quietly invested $500M+ in Paradigm, Sequoia, and other VCs, including a $200M commitment to Sequoia; Pitchbook shows he commited $300M to K5 (Kate Clark/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Twitter staffers say they are concerned by the rollout of features without the security reviews required by a consent decree the FTC reached with Twitter in May (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5