Apple has agreed to hire a third-party firm to conduct an audit of its US labor practices, according to an investor coalition that has pushed for the assessment (Noam Scheiber/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Amid a wave of lawsuits claiming Tesla dangerously overhyped its self-driving software, an overview of Tesla from its erratic CEO to its erratic Autopilot AI (Christopher Cox/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting ~5% of its workforce, or ~11,000 jobs, and could announce the layoffs in the coming days, before company earnings (Mark Kleinman/Sky News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Discord acquires Gas, a poll-based app with 1M+ DAUs that's popular among teens for helping them share compliments with each other (Tom Warren/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Twitter says it's enforcing "long-standing third-party API rules" that "may result in some apps not working" but does not specify the rules allegedly broken (Emma Roth/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Samsung announces the ISOCELL HP2, a 200-megapixel, 1/1.3-inch smartphone camera sensor with pixel binning, that could debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Alibaba and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Wikimedia says the UK's Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia's freedom of expression (Chris Vallance/BBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service, debuted in 2021, broadly available, giving customers access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and "soon" ChatGPT (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

An overview of the ML software development industry over the past decade: a decline of Nvidia's CUDA monopoly, PyTorch overtaking Google's TensorFlow, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5