WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

NYC-based LeapXpert, which monitors staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, and iMessage for compliance, raised a $22M Series A+ led by Rockefeller (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Gemini is preparing to launch an international crypto derivatives exchange to offer perpetual futures, which US regulations prohibit for retail traders (The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Docs: investments in 4chan include $5.6M from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura and his company plus $2.4M from Japanese company Good Smile, which makes toys for Disney (Justin Ling/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell to global customers through localization, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers (Andy Greenberg/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Filing: a California court grants Twitter's request to subpoena GitHub for information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, the alleged leaker of some Twitter source code (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later in 2023 and will become the first "touch-enabled board" to run Teams Rooms on Windows (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5