An interview with Max Levchin on Affirm, the US CFPB's inquiry into BNPL services, problems with credit cards, the current economic environment, and more (Lauren Goode/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:42 Rating: 5

Kuo: mass shipments of Apple's AR/VR headset may be delayed until H2 2023, from previously estimated Q2 2023, due to "software-related issues" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 08:42 Rating: 5

Autonomous trucking software company Embark lost ~98% of its market value, or ~$5B, since going public a year ago via a SPAC merger, amid a sector-wide downturn (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 04:42 Rating: 5

A look at FORM, a 1980s software used for the hardest particle physics problems, as it risks obsolescence while being maintained almost entirely by a retiree (Matt Von Hippel/Quanta Magazine) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Saudi Arabian food delivery service Jahez agrees to acquire local rival The Chefz for ~$173M in a cash and stock deal (Shaji Mathew/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:43 Rating: 5

Elon Musk says Apple has "fully resumed" advertising on Twitter, after claiming on November 28 that Apple had "mostly stopped" Twitter ads (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

An interview with the co-founder of Vietnamese unicorn VNG, which offers games and services like Zalo, a messaging app that had 74M+ MAUs in Vietnam in February (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

A look at virtual currencies like Roblox's Robux, which have become many kids' preferred way to be paid for chores or receive as an allowance (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:42 Rating: 5

Tim Cook was able to placate Elon Musk within two days, but the chaos at Foxconn's "iPhone City" may become the greatest test of Cook's diplomatic skills yet (Patrick McGee/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

A Twitter thread from Matt Taibbi exposes Twitter documents on the internal debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story (Todd Spangler/Variety) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:45 Rating: 5