London-based Archax, the UK's only digital asset exchange licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority, raised a $28.5M Series A led by investment firm abrdn (Kari McMahon/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:45 Rating: 5

Cambodia's online gambling and scam industries keep recruiting "cyber slave" workers via trafficking and misleading ads despite police raids and global pressure (Rest of World) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

A look at Mastodon's "antiviral" design and culture, where users push back at features and behaviors that promote virality, and embrace things that add friction (Clive Thompson/UX Collective) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

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