HR software startup Rippling raised a $500M Series E at an $11.25B valuation, same as Series D, when SVB froze its deposits, taking its total funding to $1.2B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony on March 23 (Hailey Fuchs/Politico) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities, including four top-severity flaws, affecting some Samsung phones and other devices with Exynos chipsets (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print, and plans to shut down Kindle Newsstand in September 2023 (Michael Kozlowski/Good e-Reader) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, initially for iOS users, with plans to expand (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

In a presentation about the new Copilot features, Microsoft acknowledges AI's tendency to produce inaccurate responses but says the tech can be "usefully wrong" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Tiger Global marked down its investments in private companies by ~33% across VC funds in 2022, erasing $23B in value from its portfolio of startups (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Peter Thiel says he had $50M in a personal account at SVB when it went under, even after Founders Fund warned portfolio companies that the bank was at risk (George Hammond/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

The US Copyright Office says protections for AI-assisted artistic works depend on whether AI's contributions reflect the author's "own mental conception" (Blake Brittain/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

SpaceX launches Starlink Roam, a rebranding of Starlink RV, offering global satellite internet service for $200/month and a regional option for $150/month (The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5