Musk says Twitter will start manually authenticating accounts starting next week, with blue check marks for people, gold for companies, and gray for governments (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

IMF calls for more crypto regulation in Africa, says 25% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa have regulated crypto and two-thirds have imposed some restrictions (Ana Paula Pereira/Cointelegraph) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Germany-based Temedica, which offers a health data insight service to pharma companies, raised a €25M Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to €42M (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Twitter will offer a "general amnesty" next week to suspended accounts that "have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam" after 72% vote yes in a poll (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Google's Project Zero reported five security flaws in devices with Mali GPUs in the summer, but Samsung, Xiaomi, Google, and others are yet to release patches (Kris Holt/Engadget) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Prosus valued its 9.67% stake in Byju's at $578M at the end of Q3 2022, implying Byju's total value to be $5.9B; Byju's was valued at $22B in October 2022 (Moneycontrol) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Sources: US senators raise concerns as hundreds of China-made DJI recreational drones have violated restricted airspace over Washington, DC in recent months (Politico) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Google blocklisted two Chrome "SearchBlox" extensions with 200K+ installs, after discovery of a backdoor that can be used to steal Roblox credentials and assets (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Sources: the FTC is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard deal; FTC staff are skeptical of the companies' arguments (Josh Sisco/Politico) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Mark Cuban's interactive streaming app Fireside acquires streaming platform Stremium and plans to launch on smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and other devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5