Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised (Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Irish DPC's €390M Meta fine, issued at the behest of European Data Protection Board, is a harbinger of how EU may crack down on Big Tech in the next two years (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Amazon S3 will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side using AES-256; AWS has had server-side encryption for over a decade (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

PitchBook and NVCA report: in 2022, US VC deal count fell 14% YoY to 15,852, deal value fell 30% YoY to $238.3B, and exit value fell 91% YoY to $71.4B (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Researchers: cybercriminals look for ways to use ChatGPT to create hacking tools, share AI generated malware code in forums, discuss creating dating scam bots (Thomas Brewster/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:42 Rating: 5

Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $300M+ from Thrive and Founders Fund in a tender offer, valuing the company at ~$29B, up from $14B in its 2021 tender offer (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

California's pay transparency law, which requires employers to share salary ranges on job listings, went into effect this week, revealing some Big Tech salaries (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Source: Twitter laid off ~40 data scientists and engineers working on ad optimization, as it targets the ads products and other areas considered to be failing (Erin Woo/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

HTC unveils $1,099 Vive XR Elite headset with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chip, 110-degree field of view, and two 90HZ 2k LCD displays, available in February (Scott Stein/CNET) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Lenovo announces the $1,349 ThinkBook 16p laptop, offering additional modular accessories, including a 4K wireless webcam and an LTE module, available in May (Emma Roth/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5