Maryland-based identity management startup Aembit launches its service on Monday and announces a $16.6M seed from Ballistic Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

China's anti-graft watchdog begins to investigate ex-Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo, the latest executive to be ensnared in its chip corruption dragnet (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 03:41 Rating: 5

Research: ByteDance's video editing app CapCut, launched in 2020, has 200M+ MAUs and 400M+ downloads in 2022, up 43% YoY, surpassing TikTok in recent weeks (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 01:41 Rating: 5

India cuts mobile internet access for a second day across Punjab, a state of ~27M people, as it tries to catch a Sikh separatist and curb "fake news" and unrest (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Source: in an upcoming testimony to Congress this Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to say TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020 (Carol E. Lee/NBC News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

The FDIC announces an agreement to sell Signature Bank's assets to Flagstar Bank, a subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp (Pete Schroeder/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier reached about 1M MAUs in the US after its second month, and the company has hit its forecasted deliveries to advertisers (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Amid mounting safety concerns about Tesla's FSD, ex-staffers blame Elon Musk's erratic leadership, cost-cutting measures like removing radar, and more (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

UChicago researchers launch a free app to help artists prevent AI models from stealing their "artistic IP", by adding imperceptible "perturbations" to their art (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 09:41 Rating: 5

Researchers detail a recently fixed aCropalypse vulnerability in Google Pixel's Markup tool that lets some screenshots be retroactively unredacted or uncropped (Abner Li/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 05:41 Rating: 5