Jakarta-based Akulaku, a digital banking startup which offers a virtual credit card, neobank, and more, raised $200M from Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Apple App Store Vice President Matt Fischer on Apple Arcade's inception, its lack of a flagship exclusive game, approaching game developers, and more (Shelby Brown/CNET) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Stack Overflow's 2022 Developer Survey shows ~40% use a Linux-based system, up from ~25% in 2021 and ~23% in 2018, compared to ~62% for Windows and ~31% for Mac (Justin Garrison/Justin Garrison) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 07:41 Rating: 5

FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz (Freddy Brewster/Los Angeles Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 06:41 Rating: 5

A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which helps clients in government and intelligence agencies hack security cameras and alter live feeds and past recordings (Omer Benjakob/Haaretz) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 05:41 Rating: 5

A look at Elon Musk's tightening finances as TSLA dropped 65% in 2022, shrinking his borrowing power, and his fortune fell from an estimated $340B high to $140B (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 03:41 Rating: 5

Internal memo: Xiaomi President Wang Xiang and co-founders Hong Feng and Wang Chuan step down, as the company battles slowing sales amid COVID-19 disruptions (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

Study: programmers who use AI tools like GitHub Copilot produce less secure code than those who don't while making them believe their code has no safety issues (Thomas Claburn/The Register) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Sensor Tower: Pinduoduo's marketplace Temu gained 10.8M installations in the US since Sep. 1, and became the most downloaded US app between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14 (Shen Lu/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 04:41 Rating: 5

Supply chain experts warn of a months-long disruption risk to Apple's iPhone production and operations due to worker absenteeism, amid China's COVID-19 wave (Patrick McGee/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5