US-based MKS Instruments, a little-known but key chip equipment supplier, says a "ransomware event" on "production-related systems" will cause delays into March (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT (Jon Victor/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

DCG reports 2022 revenue of $719M and a loss of $1.1B as the firm struggled with plunging crypto prices and the restructuring of its lending platform, Genesis (Ian Allison/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have TikTok installed on government devices and adjust IT contracts with vendors accordingly (David Shepardson/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Meta is forming a team to get generative AI into its products, led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, who joined Meta in 2020 after 16 years at Apple and reports to Chris Cox (Ina Fried/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Delaware-based Pagos, a payments startup with clients like Adobe, Eventbrite, GoFundMe, and Warner Bros. Discovery, raised a $34M Series A led by Arbor Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple has restarted work on an iPhone SE 4 with a 6.1" OLED screen and an Apple-designed 5G modem; Ross Young: China's BOE will supply the display (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 03:41 Rating: 5

Filing: China Renaissance says founder Bao Fan is "co-operating in an investigation", more than a week after disclosing his unexplained disappearance (Hudson Lockett/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

Some crypto projects are abandoning terms like NFTs, which became associated with unsavory get-rich-quick scams, in favor of terms like "digital collectibles" (Stephen Graves/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5