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India's market regulator tightens IPO disclosure norms after recent lackluster performance of tech startups; firms must disclose KPIs and past pricing details (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

At Tesla AI Day, Musk reveals a protoype of Optimus, a humanoid robot that uses Tesla' AI and advanced driver assist features, expects to cost less than $20K (The Verge)

NYC-based Grow Therapy, which offers tools for mental health providers to set up virtual practices, raised a $75M Series B, bringing its total funding to $90M (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews)

Japan says it will provide Micron a subsidy of up to ~$322M to help the company produce advanced memory chips at a Hiroshima factory (Mari Yamaguchi/Associated Press)

SEC filing: Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye files for an IPO and reports a H1 2022 revenue of $854M, up 21% from H1 2021 (Reuters)

Report: Bruce Willis sold his "digital twin" likeness rights to Deepcake, for use in ads and possibly even movies; a Russian ad already used a Willis deepfake (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)

Court records: FTX's winning bid for Voyager Digital includes a $51M cash payment, and $60M in earnouts and incentives for Voyager users that onboard with FTX (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach "more privacy-preserving" than similar systems used in other browsers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Former eBay executives Jim Baugh and David Harville are sentenced to 57 and 24 months in prison for their roles in a 2019 cyberstalking campaign against critics (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

Twitter plans to add a TikTok-like full-screen video scrolling UI for English-speaking users on iOS, and a video carousel to the Explore tab on iOS and Android (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Apple VP of Procurement Tony Blevins is leaving, sources say after joking in a viral, September 5 TikTok video that he fondles "big-breasted women" for a living (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Pornhub is testing a chatbot that redirects users searching for CSAM to a service where they can get help; the bot intervened ~174K times during the first month (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Meta permanently bans Pornhub's Instagram account for "repeatedly violating" its policies, after a three-week suspension and ToS breaches accruing over 10 years (Samantha Cole/VICE)

Sources: Google Ventures has shelved its algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments (Dan Primack/Axios)

Google unveils search results with a "Discussions and forums" section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and with machine-translated news coverage, in early 2023 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

DocuSign will lay off 9% of staff as part of a major restructuring to be completed by 2023 end, incurring charges of $30M-$40M; it had 7,461 staffers in January (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Google says its multisearch tool, which lets users search using both images and text, will expand to more than 70 languages in the next few months (Jay Peters/The Verge)

A look at tappable podcast ads in mobile games, which trigger episode downloads; source: iHeartMedia got ~6M unique listeners/month through such ads since 2018 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Court filing: Elon Musk's deposition by Twitter's lawyers has been rescheduled to October 6 and 7 (The Guardian)

The SEC says 16 Wall Street firms have agreed to pay $1.1B in combined penalties for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg)

MPCH Labs, which is developing a cryptographic technique to split and store private keys for multiple users, raised a $40M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk)

The latest iPadOS 16 developer beta makes Stage Manager compatible with older A12X and A12Z iPads, but does not include external monitor support for the feature (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget)