US DOJ says two Estonians were arrested for a $575M cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering scheme that allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of investors (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees (Alex Heath/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Connecticut-based SponsorUnited, a SaaS database of the brand sponsorship industry, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Equity at a $100M+ valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Despite Apple saying that usage data it collects does not include personally identifiable info, researchers say it contains an ID that is unique to the user (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

How centralized crypto exchanges could offer "proof of solvency" while protecting depositors' privacy by using ZK-SNARKs, a type of zero-knowledge proof (Vitalik Buterin's website) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Online sports-betting companies are cutting big deals with US colleges to promote gambling to students, like Caesars Sportsbook's $8.4M deal with Michigan State (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Kite, a startup that used AI to help devs code, shuts down, saying state-of-the-art ML models don't understand the structure of code and too few devs would pay (Adam Smith/Code Faster with Kite) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

A look at Unstable Diffusion, which is trying to monetize AI porn generators; the group migrated from a subreddit to Discord, where it has over 45,000 members (TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Court documents: FTX owes $3.1B to its 50 biggest unsecured creditors, with claims ranging from $21M to $226M; ten claims are over $100M each (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft brings SwiftKey back to the iOS App Store citing "customer feedback", after delisting the keyboard app on October 5, 2022 (Jay Peters/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5