Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan have begun to formally collect signatures to form a union (Reed Albergotti/Washington Post)

Reed Albergotti / Washington Post:
Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan have begun to formally collect signatures to form a union  —  If successful, the effort would be the first time an Apple retail location has unionized  —  Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location …

A profile of Anna Fang, CEO of China-based ZhenFund, who has backed 30+ seed-stage startups that became unicorns and 90+ startups that had a successful exit (Rebecca Szkutak/Forbes)

Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes:
A profile of Anna Fang, CEO of China-based ZhenFund, who has backed 30+ seed-stage startups that became unicorns and 90+ startups that had a successful exit  —  When ZhenFund CEO Anna Fang was new to venture investing, her mentor told her that the right entrepreneurs to back are the ones …

Musk's definition of free speech is utter nonsense and his suggested Twitter fixes totally ignore the content moderation lessons that platforms already learned (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Musk's definition of free speech is utter nonsense and his suggested Twitter fixes totally ignore the content moderation lessons that platforms already learned  —  from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept  —  Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.

A look at Apple's yearslong effort to develop its own silicon to power the Mac lineup and replace Intel chips, including an interview with Johny Srouji (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Apple's yearslong effort to develop its own silicon to power the Mac lineup and replace Intel chips, including an interview with Johny Srouji  —  Apple's risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon paid off when supply-chain disruptions left competitors scrambling  —  Apple Inc. had a problem.

Apple likely taps LG, Jahwa for iPhone 15 periscope camera

On Wednesday, South Korea-based Jahwa Electronics said it would spend 191 billion won ($155 million) to build out new facilities capable of producing new optical image stabilisation actuators. https://ift.tt/JQjhBef

An interview with a former Xinjiang prisoner, who details how China extensively uses tech like Hikvision surveillance cameras to facilitate human rights abuses (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
An interview with a former Xinjiang prisoner, who details how China extensively uses tech like Hikvision surveillance cameras to facilitate human rights abuses  —  The rare firsthand account will help investigate human rights abuses  —  For 10 months in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner …