New York AG fines a stalkerware developer $410K and forces him to alert his customers' victims that they are being secretly monitored using one of his apps (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: the US is weighing sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Germany-based Sdui, whose software provides communication and diary tools for schools, raised an $18M Series A extension, bringing total Series A to €25M (Callum Cyrus/Tech.eu) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

An analysis of 68 news domains: 45 ranked worse in UK Google search results in January 2023 vs. January 2022; those with non-news content saw the biggest gains (Aisha Majid/Press Gazette) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Internal messages: Twitter wants to charge brands $1,000 per month to keep their gold verification badges, plus $50 per month for each affiliated account (Erin Woo/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Italy's privacy watchdog orders SF-based AI chatbot maker Replika, which operates a freemium "virtual friendship" service, to stop processing local users' data (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Sam Altman about AI systems replacing search engines, OpenAI's Microsoft investment, how artificial general intelligence could "break capitalism", more (Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:42 Rating: 5

Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with creators who are subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified, but doesn't share any details (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:42 Rating: 5

Tim Cook says iPhone revenue would have grown without supply constraints, currency fluctuations were a challenge, and layoffs are a "last resort kind of thing" (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

Apple reports Q1 revenue in Greater China fell 7.3% YoY to $23.9B, revenue in Japan fell 5% to $6.8B, and revenue in the rest of Asia-Pacific fell 2.8% to $9.5B (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5