A look at "the flattening": tech companies laying off middle managers to boost efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app launched in 2014 that can identify 6,000+ bird species on six continents by a picture or by song (Roman Feeser/CBS News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Analysis: people spend more time watching Netflix than Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max combined, and Netflix makes up ~75% of the top 10 shows in the US each week (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more (Nabiha Syed/The Markup) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

GitHub's private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers privately disclose security flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:42 Rating: 5

Twitter Blue checkmarks were restored on Saturday for some of the platform's biggest names, including those who had not criticized the verification system (Victor Swezey/The Daily Beast) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Cloud infrastructure company Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (Meir Orbach/CTech) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Some critics of Twitter Blue, such as @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say they have been given unwanted Blue checkmarks (Mike Pearl/Mashable) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

A look at GeoComply, which says it checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the bets are happening in a US state where they're legal (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5