Facebook's Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report: in a first, none of the top 20 posts broke platform rules; sources detail Meta's latest fight against spammy content (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Since Elon Musk's takeover, sources say Twitter has in some cases chosen not to pay vendors, as it reviews and renegotiates deals to cut expenses (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk holds relaunch of Blue Verified until "there is high confidence of stopping impersonations" and floats using different colors for orgs and individuals (Alex Heath/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

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