The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and blockchain startup Mysten Labs in September 2022 (CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

A US appeals court revives a lawsuit accusing Google and others of violating children's privacy state laws by tracking their YouTube activity for ad targeting (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Some Twitter users are reporting widespread service interruptions; Downdetector: the issues mainly affect its website and started around 7 PM ET on Wednesday (Kate Conger/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Christopher Phillips, head of the Google Geo group, which runs Maps, on the future of navigation, making maps more immersive, and more (Danny Lewis/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

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