China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's radically reduced anti-propaganda team (Joseph Menn/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

A look at OpenAI's Minecraft bot, which has learned to complete complex tasks in Minecraft after being trained on 70K hours of video of people playing the game (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Shanghai-based eRoad, which offers a cloud-based HR management service with a focus on payroll, raised a ~$140M Series D, after raising an ~$84M Series C (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 09:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk claims "all-time high" new Twitter signups, averaging 2M+ a day in the last seven days till November 16, up 66% YoY, and ~8B daily user active minutes (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

How live-action YouTube kids channels Vlad and Niki, Like Nastya, and Kids Diana Show, with a total of ~300M subscribers, are building global franchises (R.T. Watson/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

New Delhi-based diabetes management app BeatO raised a $33M Series B led by Lightrock India, with Flipkart and others participating (Debjyoti Roy/Livemint) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Source: the US DOJ is investigating whether rent-setting software made by RealPage is facilitating collusion among landlords to drive up rental prices (Heather Vogell/ProPublica) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

An in-depth look at the US sanctions on China's chipmakers and worries over their impact on inflation and rising costs for Western manufacturers and customers (June Yoon/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Hong Kong-based XanPool, a cross-border payments infrastructure provider for both crypto and fiat currencies, raised $41M in Q2 2022 at a $400M valuation (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

How Woolworths, Loblaws, and other retailers are developing digital advertising arms and profiling customers, aiming to become ad venues for large brands (Alistair Gray/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5