Joe Biden signs into law an $858B defense policy bill that confers more power and obligations on US Cyber Command (Martin Matishak/The Record) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Mastodon's decentralized nature raises concerns about the liability of users running their own instances, under copyright and privacy laws around the world (Amanda Hoover/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

A look at some NFT utility cases like gaming, as NFT trading volume fell from $17B in January 2022 to $400M in November 2022, amid the crypto market slump (Joel Khalili/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Tencent confirms it joined the open-source chip group RISC-V International as a premier member; 13 out of 25 members are from China, including ZTE and Huawei (Che Pan/South China Morning Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

The FTC orders Mastercard to provide customer data to its competitors for debit card payments, alleging Mastercard used tokenization to block competing networks (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

An interview with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on scaling the network, plans for a Mozilla-like split revenue model, shunning ads, talking to investors, and more (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

AT&T will launch broadband service in states it doesn't currently serve via a joint venture with BlackRock, initially reaching 1.5M customer locations in the US (Will Feuer/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

President Jair Bolsonaro signs into law Brazil's first crypto framework, which defines digital assets and provides ground rules for crypto brokerages (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

ByteDance fired four employees after finding in a probe they accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story (Emily Baker-White/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Research: tens of thousands of Twitter poll bot votes can cost less than $100, potentially undermining Elon Musk's move to rely on polls for company decisions (Davey Alba/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:42 Rating: 5