Yuga Labs says the auction of its Bitcoin NFT project TwelveFold generated 735.7 BTC, about $16.5M; 288 out of 3,246 total bidders were awarded NFTs (Cam Thompson/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Atlassian is cutting 500 jobs, about 5% of its workforce; filing: the company will incur about $70M to $75M in restructuring costs through the end of June (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

At an all-hands last week, Sundar Pichai defended Google Cloud's new desk-sharing policy; an exec says ~35% of staff are in the office at least four days a week (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer attached to the project to migrate to a paid API made a bad configuration change (Platformer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: White House has given feedback on a draft bipartisan bill and is considering asking Congress to give it more legal powers to police apps like TikTok (David McCabe/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

A study of 13M+ Facebook posts in the run-up to the 2020 US elections found that 23% of the sampled posts with political images contained misinformation (Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Internal docs appear to show execs at Eco, a personal finance app offering 2.5%-5% in "APY rewards", misrepresenting the risks of its lending practices to users (Jason Mikula/Fintech Business Weekly) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant "don't work" (Dave Lee/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate family members in distress, sometimes spoofing specific numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

An interview with Ask Jeeves' co-creator Garrett Gruener, who says his original idea was similar to the chatbots Microsoft and Google are trying to build today (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5