A hacker leaks API keys belonging to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, which said its users were "phished"; 3Commas CEO confirms the leaked data (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

CCS Insight: global shipments of VR and AR devices fell 12%+ YoY to 9.6M in 2022; NPD Group: US sales of VR headsets fell 2% YoY to $1.1B as of early December (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Source: the DOJ launches a criminal investigation into $370M+ in assets stolen from FTX as the exchange collapsed, separate from its fraud case against SBF (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

LastPass' breach update was full of spin, omitted helpful but damning info, provided rosy interpretations hiding a failure to contain August's breach, and more (Wladimir Palant/Almost Secure) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

An interview with AI researcher and MacArthur Fellow Yejin Choi on misconceptions about AI, GPT-3, training models to make moral decisions, and more (David Marchese/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 01:41 Rating: 5

A profile of Senegal-based Wave, Francophone West Africa's only unicorn and the first non-telco, non-bank offering mobile money services in eight countries (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

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