Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring that social media companies verify new users' ages and get a parent's consent for users under 18 (Brian Fung/CNN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:42 Rating: 5

New York City-based Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service company focused on offering economic data, emerges from stealth with a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:42 Rating: 5

Twitter changes the label on the main BBC account to "Publicly funded media" from "Government Funded Media", after the broadcaster called the label inaccurate (Paul Glynn/BBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5

Australia-based Fivecast, whose AI-powered software can help companies and governments monitor potential threats, raised a ~$20M Series A led by Ten Eleven (Joseph Brookes/InnovationAus.com) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:44 Rating: 5

Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System and seven critical RCE vulnerabilities (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Customs data: Russia imported $570M worth of US chips from Hong Kong and mainland China from February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022, despite US sanctions (Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11 (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:43 Rating: 5

Alibaba Cloud unveils its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen and says it will roll out the AI chatbot into all products starting with DingTalk and Tmall Genie (Sheila Chiang/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

Bitcoin rises above $30K for the first time since June 2022, rallying 80%+ since the start of 2023, but is still down 50%+ from its November 2021 all-time high (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:43 Rating: 5

Court filing: Twitter Inc. was merged into X Corp. and no longer exists, and is part of parent firm X Holdings Corp.; both entities are registered in Nevada (Slate) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:43 Rating: 5