Alex Szapiro, co-head of SoftBank's nearly $8B Latin America fund, says he is confident about securing extra capital from its parent despite a ~$900M paper loss (Michael Pooler/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 01:41 Rating: 5

First Citizens agrees to buy the commercial banking business of Silicon Valley Bank from the FDIC including all deposits and loans (Daniel Taub/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Sources: the Hong Kong arms of three Chinese state banks have reached out to offer services to crypto businesses in recent months, despite a mainland crypto ban (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

A mid-March Midjourney update seemingly fixed one of the AI image generator's major failings: its inability to depict lifelike human hands with five fingers (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

After India's legal requests this week, Twitter blocked tweets from 122 users, including reporters and politicians, from Indian users; it used to push back more (Samriddhi Sakunia/Rest of World) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

A look at OBNbrandon, a prolific scammer in a booming community focused on banning influencers' Instagram accounts and demanding payment for reactivation (ProPublica) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

A profile of Atlanta-based Yellow Card, Africa's largest centralized crypto exchange, which has done ~$1.75B in transactions since 2019 and raised $57M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Hollywood and music industry insiders, actors, and others say a TikTok ban could seriously hurt their businesses and are scrambling to create contingency plans (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Source: Elon Musk offers Twitter staff stock grants at a ~$20B valuation which, with a $13B debt, implies a $33B enterprise value, ~11x 2023's projected revenue (Erin Woo/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

The hacker of DeFi lending protocol Euler Finance has returned 58,737 ETH, worth ~$102M, from the 96K ETH stolen in a flash-loan attack on March 13; EUL up 27%+ (Adam Morgan McCarthy/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5