A look at "de-influencers", a rising cohort of TikTok users criticizing viral products and promoting thoughtful shopping; #deinfluencing videos passed 68M views (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says open-source developers should be exempt from the EU's AI Act; the EU parliament is set to vote on a draft in the coming months (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Financial influencers are pumping out videos promoting dubious ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes, such as selling chatbot-generated tutorials on sites like Udemy (James Vincent/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

A look at little-known UK-based fintech Transactive, which processes €1B+ monthly and has UK and Lithuania licenses, and questions about staff ties to scammers (Donal Griffin/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

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