Documents show wide-ranging opposition from Twitter and others to Canada's online harms proposals, which the government recently said it will delay implementing (Bill Curry/Globe and Mail)

Bill Curry / Globe and Mail:
Documents show wide-ranging opposition from Twitter and others to Canada's online harms proposals, which the government recently said it will delay implementing  —  Newly released documents reveal Twitter Canada told government officials that a federal plan to create a new internet regulator …

Amazon acquires GlowRoad, an Indian social commerce startup focused on women, which has 6M+ resellers across 2,000 cities and raised ~$31M from Accel and others (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times:
Amazon acquires GlowRoad, an Indian social commerce startup focused on women, which has 6M+ resellers across 2,000 cities and raised ~$31M from Accel and others  —  - Amazon has acquired Glowroad in an all-cash deal.  — Glowroad's team will join Amazon, but will continue to run as an independent unit for now.

Leaked sales pitch: Anomaly Six, a US government contractor that claims it can track ~3B phones, demonstrated its capabilities by tracking CIA and NSA personnel (The Intercept)

The Intercept:
Leaked sales pitch: Anomaly Six, a US government contractor that claims it can track ~3B phones, demonstrated its capabilities by tracking CIA and NSA personnel  —  In partnership with  —  In the months leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two obscure American startups met to discuss …

EU's DSA requires Meta, Google, and other large online platforms to make their algorithms transparent to users, deal with misinformation during crises, and more (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge:
EU's DSA requires Meta, Google, and other large online platforms to make their algorithms transparent to users, deal with misinformation during crises, and more  —  The Digital Services Act will re-shape the online world  —  The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.

Research: hackers have stolen ~$2.9B in crypto wealth from 37 crypto hacks in 38 weeks since August, which is almost on par with the $3.2B stolen in all of 2021 (Paul Vigna/Wall Street Journal)

Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal:
Research: hackers have stolen ~$2.9B in crypto wealth from 37 crypto hacks in 38 weeks since August, which is almost on par with the $3.2B stolen in all of 2021  —  Hacker steals $182 million over the weekend, the fifth largest hack on record  —  Cryptocurrency hacks are getting bigger.

Interview with Dave Limp, Amazon's head of devices and services, on why he thinks ambient computing will enhance the real world, Fire phone's failure, and Astro (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Interview with Dave Limp, Amazon's head of devices and services, on why he thinks ambient computing will enhance the real world, Fire phone's failure, and Astro  —  When Amazon launched Alexa — its voice-activated virtual assistant — in 2014, it was met with scepticism.