Thursday, October 6, 2022

Twitter makes notes on tweets from its crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch visible to all US users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter makes notes on tweets from its crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch visible to all US users  —  After last month's expansion of Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program known as Birdwatch, Twitter announced this morning the notes fact-checkers leave on tweets will now be visible to all U.S. users.



President Joe Biden has yet to appoint a US CTO after 20 months in office, a position Barack Obama filled within three months (Cristiano Lima/Washington Post)

Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
President Joe Biden has yet to appoint a US CTO after 20 months in office, a position Barack Obama filled within three months  —  Happy Thursday!  A quick programming note: The newsletter will be off Friday but back on Monday.  We'll see you on the other side!



Sources: Google has requested manufacturers to make 8M units of its Pixel 7 range, its largest-ever order, aiming to double smartphone sales in 2023 (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Google has requested manufacturers to make 8M units of its Pixel 7 range, its largest-ever order, aiming to double smartphone sales in 2023  —  U.S. company still niche player next to Samsung and Apple  —  TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. — Google is preparing its largest-ever launch order …



Global VC funding in Q3 2022 was $81B, down 53% YoY from $171B and 33% QoQ from $121B, the lowest level since $70.6B in Q1 2020 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:
Global VC funding in Q3 2022 was $81B, down 53% YoY from $171B and 33% QoQ from $121B, the lowest level since $70.6B in Q1 2020  —  The big global venture capital pullback we were all expecting is truly here.  —  Venture and growth investors in private companies scaled …



Minnesota-based Arctic Wolf, which offers cybersecurity tools and on-site experts, raised $401M in debt, after raising $150M at a $4.3B valuation in July 2021 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Minnesota-based Arctic Wolf, which offers cybersecurity tools and on-site experts, raised $401M in debt, after raising $150M at a $4.3B valuation in July 2021  —  In a sign that pure equity financing is getting harder to come by, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf, which last July raised $150 million …



Amazon plans to hire 150,000 seasonal workers, the same as in 2021, ahead of the holidays; Walmart plans to hire 40,000, down from 150,000 in 2021 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Amazon plans to hire 150,000 seasonal workers, the same as in 2021, ahead of the holidays; Walmart plans to hire 40,000, down from 150,000 in 2021  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to hire 150,000 seasonal workers, about the same as last year despite slowing sales and predictions of a lackluster holiday shopping season.



Altana, which uses AI to find supply chain anomalies and identify potential risks and bad actors, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $123M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Altana, which uses AI to find supply chain anomalies and identify potential risks and bad actors, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $123M  —  Trade wars, military conflicts, the rise of e-commerce and sustainability concerns are driving changes to supply chain networks and trade flows.



Google Pixel 7 launch event Live Updates: what to expect, Price, Specs, Pre Order and more

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Tesla plans to remove ultrasonic sensors from some new Model 3 and Y cars this month and Model S and X cars in 2023 in favor of camera and software assistance (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Tesla plans to remove ultrasonic sensors from some new Model 3 and Y cars this month and Model S and X cars in 2023 in favor of camera and software assistance  —  Tesla is removing ultrasonic sensors from Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, the next step in CEO Elon Musk's plan to only use cameras …



How to Tokenise your ICICI Bank credit or debit card

As per Reserve Bank of India mandate effective October 1 2022, actual card number, CVV and expiry date and any other sensitive information related to cards cannot be stored by merchants or payment aggregators/gateways for processing online transactions. Users need to get their credit/debit cards tokenised. https://ift.tt/UROH1t7

An interview with Sky Mavis co-founder Aleksander Larsen on staying play-to-earn after the hack, unfair criticisms, improving security, raising funds, and more (Ryan Weeks/The Block)

Ryan Weeks / The Block:
An interview with Sky Mavis co-founder Aleksander Larsen on staying play-to-earn after the hack, unfair criticisms, improving security, raising funds, and more  —  - Sky Mavis has endured a turbulent year even by crypto standards, suffering a massive hack and waning interest from gamers.



A look at "Crypto Twitter", which acts as a town hall where traders, investors, scammers, content creators, founders, and others connect, do business, and relax (Brady Dale/Axios)

Brady Dale / Axios:
A look at “Crypto Twitter”, which acts as a town hall where traders, investors, scammers, content creators, founders, and others connect, do business, and relax  —  Twitter is different for crypto than it is for other areas of interest.  To a certain extent …



Taiwan vows to protect its firms' interests at US-led 'Chip 4' group

Taiwan will use the new US-led "Chip 4" group to safeguard the interests of Taiwanese companies and to ensure supply chain resilience, a deputy minister said, though he added that the group had no agenda yet. https://ift.tt/CMvkVDx

Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)

Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...