Docs: the FTC demanded Twitter turn over internal messages about Elon Musk, details about layoffs, and the names of journalists with access to company records (Ryan Tracy/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Google plans to retire overlay ads on YouTube videos starting on April 6 to "improve the viewer experience and shift engagement to higher performing ad formats" (Damien Wilde/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Biden FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out, after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, after it eliminated 13%, or 11,000 jobs in November 2023 in its first major layoff (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

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