SVB Financial files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the SDNY Bankruptcy Court and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity”  —  One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries …

YouTube lifts restrictions, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, on Trump's channel after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence”  —  YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.

Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities, including four top-severity flaws, affecting some Samsung phones and other devices with Exynos chipsets  —  Google's security research unit is sounding the alarm on a set of vulnerabilities it found in certain Samsung chips included …

Sources: the FBI and DOJ are investigating what led TikTok's parent company ByteDance to use the app to surveil US journalists; source: ByteDance was subpoenaed  —  Months before the U.S. government demanded ByteDance divest from TikTok, the Department Of Justice's Criminal Division subpoenaed …

The FCC is requiring carriers to block SMS messages from “invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers”, targeting the increase in scam robotexts sent to consumers  —  First robotext rule requires blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers.  —  The Federal Communications …

Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels, but negotiations stalled after Musk's takeover and were abandoned due to costs  —  Twitter didn't move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.

A shortage of skilled workers is impeding Micron's goal of a chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse, NY, where it plans to invest $100B and hire 9K employees  —  Micron plans to hire 9,000 employees at a new suburban Syracuse campus amid shortage of skilled workers

Meta rolls out Verified in the US for $12/month on web or $15 on iOS/Android, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and direct customer support  —  Meta's paid verification program is available in the US starting today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Instagram channel.

Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print, and plans to shut down Kindle Newsstand in September 2023  —  Amazon has announced they are abandoning the Kindle for Periodicals or the Kindle Newsstand, which will completely shutter on September 2023.

Sources: Twitter downranked rivals' corporate accounts including Instagram, Snap, and TikTok since December, as well as non-rivals like the US @HHSGov account  —  Little scoop from me today: Twitter has been down-ranking the corporate accounts of its competitors, including 19 official TikTok accounts, 3 Snap accounts, and 2 Instagram accounts. This means their tweets won't show on the For You tab for the most part: https://www.platformer.news/ ...

Q&A with two of Meta's leading security experts about its Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threat activity like influence operations  —  Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times.

Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, but not by whom, initially for iOS users on the tweet details page, with plans to expand  —  Twitter is adding yet another public metric to measure posts by.  There's now a counter for how many bookmarks a tweet has gotten …

In a presentation about the new Copilot features, Microsoft acknowledges AI's tendency to produce inaccurate responses but says the tech can be “usefully wrong”  —  - Microsoft debuted ChatGPT-like features dubbed Copilot that will eventually come to its business apps like Word and Excel.