- Drug discount app GoodRx agrees to pay $1.5M after the FTC said the company wrongfully disclosed intimate health information to Facebook, Google, and others (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
- Pakistan "degrades" Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing "sacrilegious contents" and warns of a full block if it fails to remove such content (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- A US judge amends Sam Bankman-Fried's bail terms, prohibiting him from contacting any current or former FTX or Alameda employees and bans Signal and other apps (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)
- Cars & Bids, a car auction site founded by Doug DeMuro, an automotive YouTuber who has amassed 4.5M+ subscribers since 2013, raised $37M from The Chernin Group (Karl Brauer/Forbes)
- Digital fingerprinting startup Addressable, which claims to have matched over 17M anonymous crypto wallets with social media accounts, raised a $7.5M seed (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of OpenAI's ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, in the coming weeks; OpenAI plans to launch a ChatGPT app (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
- Sources: a US judge rejects the FTC's bid for a preliminary injunction to block Meta's Within acquisition, giving the FTC one week to decide whether to appeal (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
- Netflix adds spatial audio to its $20 per month Premium plan, available for over 700 of its most popular titles; Standard and Basic will get limited support (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- Sources: UMG is in talks with Tidal and others to overhaul streaming economics to pay artists more; ideas include a "bonus pool" and "superfan" subscriptions (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
- Cape Town-based Lulalend, which uses its proprietary credit scoring algorithm to offer short-term loans to SMBs, raised a $35M Series B and launches a neobank (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
- Analysis: 2022 was the biggest year ever for crypto hacking, with $3.8B stolen, primarily from DeFi protocols and by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (Chainalysis)
- Netflix lists its rules and exemptions to prevent password sharing, including that all devices should be on the same "primary" Wi-Fi at least once every 31 days (David Satin/The Streamable)
- Indiana-based blockchain startup SIMBA Chain, which has worked on various US military projects, raised $30M from the US Air Force, after raising $1.5M in 2020 (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
- Nvidia is working to fix a Discord bug that slows the memory clocks on some of its GPUs by up to 200MHz, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- Apple launches its MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, playoffs, and more for $14.99/month or $99/year (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)