With "Twitter Files", Elon Musk shows himself as an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends (Eric Levitz/New York Magazine) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:43 Rating: 5

Google, worried about its reputation, is hesitant to release its capable bot LaMDA, but by waiting too long it may cede the market to competitors like ChatGPT (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:43 Rating: 5

Lawmakers in Greece approved a legislation banning commercial spyware after the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was accused of surveillance (Derek Gatopoulos/Associated Press) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Huawei licenses key 5G tech to Oppo, amid a US crackdown, and says it has patent cross-licensing deals with 20 companies, including extended deals with Samsung (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:43 Rating: 5

Source: the US DOJ is preparing a possible fraud case against Sam Bankman-Fried and others, examining cash flows to the Bahamas around FTX's bankruptcy filing (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:43 Rating: 5

London-based 9fin, which offers AI-powered data analytics for debt markets, raised a $23M Series A+ led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $37.2M (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Sources: LLC's tied to crypto news site The Block's CEO secretly received $43M in Alameda loans, used in part to acquire and run the site; CEO has now resigned (Sara Fischer/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:52 Rating: 5

Apple agrees to remove concealment clauses from staff and contractor agreements, which limited the ability to speak about harassment and other unlawful conduct (Patrick McGee/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:47 Rating: 5

Tokyo-based Ubie, which offers an AI-powered patient symptom questionnaire for medical care guidance, closed a $45M Series C, bringing its total funding to $76M (Jasmine Pennic/hitconsultant.net) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:43 Rating: 5

NordVPN: stolen data of 5 million people globally, including 600,000 Indians, have been sold on the Genesis, Russian, and 2easy bot markets for ~$6 on average (Anuran Sadhu/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:42 Rating: 5