A reporter tries Lensa, but unlike her male peers whose avatars were astronauts, warriors, and the like, many of hers were "pornified", with 16 of 100 topless (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:53 Rating: 5

Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile carriers, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, in an attempt to rid Twitter of spam (Platformer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:43 Rating: 5

Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.28B, vs. $12.05B est., cloud services revenue up 14% YoY to $8.6B, and health data provider Cerner revenue of $1.5B (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:42 Rating: 5

Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats the Nvidia RTX 4080 for $200 less, except in power efficiency and ray tracing, and the XT comes close (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams confirm Bahamas police arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, who is under indictment and could be extradited (CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Boston-based cybersecurity startup Snyk raised $196.5M at a $7.4B valuation, down 12% from its round in September 2021, bringing its total raised to $1.075B (Ron Miller/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:44 Rating: 5

MessageGears, a customer engagement service rivaling startups like MoEngage, raised $62M led by Long Ridge Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $80M+ (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:49 Rating: 5

South Korean prosecutors believe Do Kwon, who founded the collapsed TerraUSD and LUNA, is hiding in Serbia, traveling via Dubai from Singapore in October (Song Jung-a/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

Meituan and Pinduoduo, pandemic winners in China, are adapting to renewed competition from Douyin, Alibaba, and others, as China sheds its zero-COVID-19 policy (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 01:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Thoma Bravo is in advanced talks to acquire Coupa Software, which helps companies manage their spending, after outbidding Vista Equity Partners (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5