Missouri-based Paytient, which offers health payment accounts to health care and insurance companies, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M (Annie Burky/Fierce Healthcare) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

CommuteAir took down a 2019 copy of the US No Fly List, after a researcher said they found it on an unsecured server and that it had 1.5M+ entries, many aliases (The Daily Dot) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Listen Notes: ~219K podcasts were created in 2022, down nearly 80% from a peak of ~1M in 2020 and lower than the pre-pandemic high of ~337K in 2019 (Ariel Shapiro/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft has laid off the entire teams behind the virtual reality platform AltspaceVR, which will shut down in March, and the Mixed Reality Tool Kit framework (Jez Corden/Windows Central) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:43 Rating: 5

Q&A with Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos about shared leadership, what role Reed Hastings may play, adding FAST channels, the ad tier, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

A look at Amazon's fledgling drone delivery unit, which has struggled due to safety concerns and now faces layoffs and other cost-cutting measures (Annie Palmer/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:42 Rating: 5

Internal records: Twitter lost about 80% of staff since Elon Musk took over and now has around 1,300 employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:42 Rating: 5

In a staff call, CNET and Red Ventures execs said they were pausing AI-generated content on CNET and other sites and offered details on their proprietary tool (Mia Sato/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:42 Rating: 5

Waterloo-based Magnet Forensics, which develops digital investigation software, agrees to be acquired by Thoma Bravo for CA$1.8B (Josh Scott/BetaKit) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

How Dutch privacy negotiators, empowered by GDPR, have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft, Zoom, and others, as the Netherlands punches above its weight (Natasha Singer/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:43 Rating: 5