Rejecting a deal on Sam Bankman-Fried using encrypted messaging apps, a judge orders his lawyers to make a plan to tighten his bail to ensure messages are saved (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Affirm reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $400M, vs. $416M est., net loss up 102% YoY to $322.4M, and lays off 19% of its workforce; AFRM drops 16%+ after hours (Lauren Feiner/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $380M, net loss down 61% YoY to $166M, MAUs down by 0.8M QoQ to 11.4M, and full-year revenue down 25% YoY to $1.36B (Manya Saini/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Chiliz, the crypto startup behind fan token service Socios, launches its Layer 1 blockchain Chiliz Chain 2.0, a BNB Chain fork, shifting away from Ethereum (Andrew Asmakov/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Clay Bavor, a Google veteran of 18 years who recently led the company's AR/VR efforts, leaves to start an AI company with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor (Abner Li/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

NetBlocks: Twitter is restricted in Turkey two days after a major earthquake; Turkish police detained people for sharing "provocative posts" on social media (Brian Fung/CNN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Twitter launches its Blue service in India, Indonesia, and Brazil; in India, the subscription costs ~$10.9/month on iOS and Android and ~$7.8/month on the web (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft plans to embed Adobe's Acrobat PDF tech in Edge for Windows 10 and Windows 11 starting in March 2023 and remove Edge's legacy PDF engine in March 2024 (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

The Samsung Galaxy S23 series has a Game Booster setting that lets a plugged-in phone bypass the battery to use power directly from the charger, reducing heat (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:50 Rating: 5

Google says it will remove a feature that allowed users to play podcasts directly from the Google Search results on February 13, after launching it in 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:50 Rating: 5