Sources: Musk plans a new startup to rival OpenAI, is talking to Tesla and SpaceX investors, may use Twitter for training data and Tesla for computing resources (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

VC funding for cybersecurity startups fell to $2.7B in Q1 2023, down 58% from $6.5B in Q1 2022; the number of announced deals dropped 45% YoY to 149 (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers' work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Twitter adds support for tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with italic and bold text formatting, for Blue subscribers (@twitterwrite) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Spotify brings its "broadcast-to-podcast" tech, which it acquired from Whooshkaa in 2021, to Megaphone, letting publishers convert radio shows into podcasts (J. Clara Chan/The Hollywood Reporter) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

NYC-based NetBox Labs, whose open-source software helps manage and automate networks, raised a $20M Series A after spinning out of NS1, which IBM agreed to buy (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

WhatsApp rolls out a handful of new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Toronto-based Kepler, which plans to launch a network of optical satellites to deliver data at 2.5Gbps to satellites in low Earth orbit, raised a $92M Series C (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions (Nilay Patel/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

ID.me, the digital ID service used by the IRS and other US agencies, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+ (Julie Muhn/Finovate) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:52 Rating: 5