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'Consider booster dose for 40-plus age group'

'Senior BJP neta offered money, asked me to join party'

'Southern India saw highest rainfall in November since 1901’

'Won’t ever topple Rajasthan government, will bag 2/3rd seats'

10 months on, chief secretary of Maharashtra takes his first shot

14 Nagaland civilians killed in botched Army operation, aftermath

2 NE CMs say AFSPA must go as Shah regrets Nagaland deaths

2 cops shot dead by terrorists in Kashmir - New!

51% difference in road death numbers from 2 departments

A perfect 10! Kiwi Ajaz Patel spins history on ‘home’ pitch

After killing of civilians, chorus against ‘draconian’ armed forces law gets louder

Amid reports of trouble in her office, Kamala faces early staff exits

Army to sport new, lighter combat uniform from January 15

Avoid blanket internet ban, says Parliament panel

Body lies in open, thanas use tapes to find out jurisdiction

Centre flags rise in Covid cases & deaths in 5 states, J&K

Char Dham law junked, shrines back in priests’ control

China blocks mention of LeT, JeM in Russia meet statement

China suspends Sri Lankan solar plants after India protest

Covid: Coverage of 1st dose up by 5.9%, 2nd shot by 11.7%

Cryptocurrencies, social media must empower democracy: PM - New!

Current Cong brass sees advice as rebellion: Azad

Cyclone Jawad fizzles out, spares Odisha, AP any major damage

Cyclone Jawad set to impact AP, Odisha from today

Expert panel split, call on additional Covid vaccine dose put off

Farmers to continue stir till govt withdraws cases

Half-baked intel may’ve led to botched Army operation in Nagaland

In talks with Capt & ex-SAD neta for Punjab alliance: Shah

India and Russia ink 10-yr pact on defence tech, deal on AK rifles

India hosts Pakistan delegation for SCO meet

Indian sisters pay Rs 1.5cr to help 92 people, pets flee Af - New!

Jobless rate: 11 states hit double digits in January-March

Karnataka to seek booster shots for frontline, health workers

Kids with poorly controlled asthma more at Covid risk, says study

Lankan lynched by mob in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy

Live: Vicky Kaushak & Katrina Kaif arrive at their wedding venue

Live: Weekly cases fall in India, but up in 9 states

Maharashtra may roll back some curbs for flyers after Centre objects

Maharashtra rolls back stringent travel curbs in wake of Omicron

Ms Universe prelim: Swimwear and evening gown round - New!

Namaz in open won’t be tolerated: Haryana CM Khattar - New!

Not launching party but cannot predict future, says Azad

Nothing ear (1) black edition wireless earbuds launched

Omicron live: Govt asks states to heighten vigil

Over 50% of adult population in India now fully vaccinated

Param Bir Singh set extortion target for Sachin Waze: Chargesheet

Parl panel: Junk distortions of national heroes in NCERT books

Political compulsions can’t undo verdict: SC to Maharashtra

Resolve logjam in RS, Venkaiah asks govt, oppn

Right-wing organisations create ruckus in school over 'religious conversion'

SC asks panel to decide on easing anti-pollution curbs - New!

SC grants PC to 12 women SSC officers released from service

US reports first case of Omicron variant in California

Uphold spirit of right against sex harassment: SC

Vicky Kaushal's father arranges food for the paparazzi

WhatsApp gets a new shortcut: This is what it is for

Will Neha Kakkar and Rohanpreet perform at Vicky-Katrina wedding?

‘Absolutely fine,’ says Omicron-infected doctor

‘Dominance of PhonePe and GPay wake-up call for banks’

‘NDA’s national security response has been more optical than substantial’

‘Night vaccination’ drive in Maoist hotbed so no one misses out

Sports

'Bryce Young won the Heisman' in Alabama's win over Georgia's notorious defense — RJ Young I No. 1 Ranked Show

'Cincinnati forced this' RJ Young breaks down how the Bearcats broke the CFP glass ceiling

Abdulaziz Hatem's header gives Qatar a 1-0 lead over Bahrain

Aidan Hutchinson in Heisman conversation after ‘The Game’ performance | CFB on FOX

Andy Katz’s College Basketball Tiers December 2 | CBB on Fox

Baylor wins the Big 12 Championship thanks to a crucial stop on 4th and goal

Beth Phoenix makes announcement about NXT future

Blazin’ 5: Colin Cowherd’s picks for Week 13 of the 2021 NFL season I THE HERD

Bucky Brooks: 3 Reasons for the Patriots revival

Colin Cowherd defends Brian Kelly, and his decision to move from Notre Dame to LSU I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd defends John Harbaugh for two point conversation attempt I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd explains why it is fair to compare Mac Jones to young Tom Brady I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd isn’t concerned about the Cowboys’ performance last night I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd likes the Dolphins, says take the under vs Giants I FOX BET LIVE

Colin Cowherd on Brian Kelly to LSU: ‘He wants to challenge himself’ I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd on the dynamic between Dak Prescott & Amari Cooper: ‘Great QBs don’t need to be lifted’ I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd says Suns are on a different level: ‘Lakers won’t catch them for the next half decade’ I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd wishes Aaron Rodgers a happy 38th birthday I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd: Marcus Freeman will do well at Notre Dame, but Brian Kelly will have more success at LSU I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd: Patrick Mahomes has to go back to the basics I THE HERD

Colin Cowherd: The Los Angeles Rams may not work as a ‘superteam’ I THE HERD

Collin Gillespie, Justin Moore lead Villanova in 81-52 win over Saint Joseph's

Dolphins beat Giants 20-9 as Tua Tagovailoa leads Miami to fifth straight win

Dr. Matt Provencher’s prognosis for UConn guard Paige Bueckers’ non-contact leg injury

Greg Jennings reacts to Aaron Rodgers’ comments regarding the Packers’ coaching staff and his injured toe I THE HERD

Herd Hierarchy: Colin ranks the top 10 teams in the NFL after Week 12 I THE HERD

Jenny Taft is gifted her baby’s first pair of Jordans AND LeBrons from Shannon Sharpe I UNDISPUTED

Johnny Davis drops 25 points as Wisconsin tops Marquette 89-76

Kennedy Chandler drops 27 as Tennessee rolls vs. Colorado, 69-54

Kyler Murray puts up four total touchdowns in return from injury

Lincoln Riley on joining the Trojans: ‘USC is going all-in on the football program’ I Breaking the Huddle with Joel Klatt

Lincoln Riley on the difficult decision to leave Oklahoma I Breaking The Huddle with Joel Klatt

Logan Bonner hits Derek Wright to give Utah State 7-0 lead over San Diego State

Nick Wright: Which Dak Prescott is going to show up for Dallas against Saints? I FIRST THINGS FIRST

Peter Schrager on the Packers' Week 12 win over the Rams, Rodgers' future in Green Bay I THE HERD

Peter Schrager: 'Bengals are myth busters,' talks offensive line I Cheat Sheet for Week 13

Peter Schrager: Deebo Samuel's season with the 49ers is one for the history books I Cheat Sheet for Week 13

Peter Schrager: Dolphins' Jaylen Waddle might be the best receiver from the 2021 draft I Cheat Sheet for Week 13

Peter Schrager: The Broncos' defense is objectively better in the post-Von Miller era I Cheat Sheet for Week 13

RJ Young: Michigan has an opportunity to win the National Championship with Jim Harbaugh I No. 1 Ranked Show

Seton Hall gets strong showing from bench in 113-67 win over Nyack College

Shannon Sharpe makes his prediction for Georgia vs. Alabama in the SEC Championship I UNDISPUTED

Shannon Sharpe on LeBron James clearing testing protocols: ‘Something isn’t adding up here’ I UNDISPUTED

Shannon Sharpe reacts to AB’s three-game suspension for misrepresenting vaccination status I UNDISPUTED

Shannon Sharpe: Chiefs can’t even win a playoff game, let alone the SB, with Patrick Mahomes’ struggles I UNDISPUTED

Shannon Sharpe: Lakers lost to the Clippers because of poor defense and a bad game from LeBron James I UNDISPUTED

Shannon Sharpe: ‘With LeBron out Westbrook will have to cut down on turnovers & take on leadership role’ | UNDISPUTED

Skip Bayless explains why he thinks the Bucs should release Antonio Brown I UNDISPUTED

Skip Bayless on the hire of Brett Venables: ‘Finally, Oklahoma will have some defense’ I UNDISPUTED

What a Brent Venables hire would mean for Oklahoma Sooners I No. 1 Ranked Show

What will happen when Brock Lesnar returns to SmackDown this Friday?

‘Expect Adam Thielen to be back in 3-6 weeks, if not sooner’ — Dr. Matt Provencher on Thielen’s ankle injury

‘I thought I was done playing’ — Taylor Heinicke on his remarkable run in Washington

‘What the Packers’ backup offensive line is doing right now is amazing’ — Peter Schrager I Cheat Sheet for Week 13

Technology

A look at China's extensive tech investments in Africa, including undersea cables, data centers, and fintech apps, as part of its "Digital Silk Road" initiative (Yinka Adegoke/Rest of World)

A look at efforts to manage climate data, gathered from satellites, aircraft, and ocean buoys, as US archives are expected to pass 650PB over the next decade (Robert Lee Hotz/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the challenges of developing a mass-market augmented reality headset as Apple reportedly prepares to launch its own mixed reality device in 2022 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

AWS announces Amplify Studio, a Figma-connected low-code service to help developers build cloud apps, as an extension of its AWS Amplify service (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

AWS announces SageMaker Studio Lab, a free version of SageMaker to help customers with little experience build, train, and deploy ML models (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

AWS says four of its cloud-based analytics services, Redshift, EMR, MSK, and Kinesis, are now available as serverless and on-demand services in public preview (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Amazon unveils SageMaker Canvas, which lets business users build ML prediction models with a point-and-click UI, following similar offerings by Azure and others (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Apple sues Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service challenging the order to allow developers to inform App Store users about alternative payment options (RT)

As Web3 takes proliferate, it's worth noting there are two distinct "is Web3 bullshit?" questions: an open-ended technical question, and whether it will "win" (Max Read/Read Max)

FBI says the "Cuba Ransomware" gang earned about $43.9M from ransom payments and breached at least 49 US critical infrastructure organizations this year (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Facebook Gaming announces a Play with Streamer feature that lets creators invite audience members to join a game, debuting alongside Pac-Man Community's launch (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Hometap, which lets homeowners get cash by taking on an investor in their house, raises $60M led by American Family Ventures, bringing its total funding to $95M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

In an internal Slack message, Marc Benioff says Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor will continue to report to him (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Instacart president Carolyn Everson says she will step down at the end of the year, less than four months after joining the company (CNBC) - New!

Investigation finds that a site providing directions on how to die is linked to ~45 suicides, as Google deflects responsibility for steering users to the site (New York Times) - New!

London-based Glorify, a Christian app that offers audio prayers and more, raises a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $250M valuation (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Lyft CFO Brian Roberts, who joined the company in 2014 and took it public, leaves to become CFO at NFT marketplace OpenSea (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

Meta opens its VR social platform Horizon Worlds to all adult users in the US and Canada (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Meta says it is testing a Split Payments feature for Facebook Messenger in the US that lets users share the cost of bills and expenses (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Meta's NPE team recently set up an office in Lagos and plans another in Asia as it changes strategy to include making seed investments in small teams (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Microsoft's inclusion of buy-now-pay-later app Zip in Edge is seen by some as heavy-handed, adding bloatware that may lessen the browser's privacy and security (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Panther Labs, which helps companies detect and respond to security threats in real time, raises a $120M Series B led by Coatue at a $1.4B valuation (Mehnaz Yasmin/Reuters)

Report: Google's Pixel hardware group is working on the company's first smartwatch, internally codenamed "Rohan", which it plans to launch next year (The Verge)

SEC filing: Satya Nadella last week sold half his Microsoft stock, worth over $285M, before Washington state implements its new capital gains tax on January 1 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Salesforce Chief Revenue Officer admits the MuleSoft unit is "going through a bit of a rough patch", amid a wave of high-level departures, sales growth slowdown (Joe Williams/Bloomberg) - New!

Samsung names its newly merged smartphone, consumer electronics, and home appliances businesses as the DX (Device eXperience) Division (Heejin Kim/Bloomberg) - New!

Sources: Goldman Sachs is among a handful of tier-one US banks working on ways to use bitcoin as collateral for cash loans to institutions (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Sources: Life360, a family safety app with 33M users, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the location data broker industry's top sources (The Markup)

Sources: Sony plans to launch a subscription service, codenamed Spartacus, next spring that merges PlayStation Plus and PS Now, to compete with Xbox Game Pass (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Spotify removed the work of hundreds of comedians, including John Mulaney and Kevin Hart, amid a fight with royalty administration agency Spoken Giants (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)

Square is changing its name to Block, effective December 10, and renaming Square Crypto to Spiral, as its business shifts toward technologies like blockchain (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

The FTC sues to block Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm, arguing the chip deal is anticompetitive (Brent Kendall/Wall Street Journal)

The four leading virtual worlds recorded over $100M in NFT land sales in the past week, with The Sandbox alone seeing trading volumes of over $86M (Hristina Yordanova/DappRadar)

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces a major reorganization, in which head of engineering Michael Montano and design lead Dantley Davis will step down (Washington Post)

Twitter should consider changing its business model as its ad revenue remains weak, despite its locked-in userbase, indispensability, and impenetrable moat (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

know-how

A look at China's extensive tech investments in Africa, including undersea cables, data centers, and fintech apps, as part of its "Digital Silk Road" initiative (Yinka Adegoke/Rest of World)

A look at efforts to manage climate data, gathered from satellites, aircraft, and ocean buoys, as US archives are expected to pass 650PB over the next decade (Robert Lee Hotz/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the challenges of developing a mass-market augmented reality headset as Apple reportedly prepares to launch its own mixed reality device in 2022 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

AWS announces Amplify Studio, a Figma-connected low-code service to help developers build cloud apps, as an extension of its AWS Amplify service (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

AWS announces SageMaker Studio Lab, a free version of SageMaker to help customers with little experience build, train, and deploy ML models (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

AWS says four of its cloud-based analytics services, Redshift, EMR, MSK, and Kinesis, are now available as serverless and on-demand services in public preview (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Amazon unveils SageMaker Canvas, which lets business users build ML prediction models with a point-and-click UI, following similar offerings by Azure and others (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Apple sues Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service challenging the order to allow developers to inform App Store users about alternative payment options (RT)

As Web3 takes proliferate, it's worth noting there are two distinct "is Web3 bullshit?" questions: an open-ended technical question, and whether it will "win" (Max Read/Read Max)

FBI says the "Cuba Ransomware" gang earned about $43.9M from ransom payments and breached at least 49 US critical infrastructure organizations this year (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Facebook Gaming announces a Play with Streamer feature that lets creators invite audience members to join a game, debuting alongside Pac-Man Community's launch (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Hometap, which lets homeowners get cash by taking on an investor in their house, raises $60M led by American Family Ventures, bringing its total funding to $95M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

In an internal Slack message, Marc Benioff says Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor will continue to report to him (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Instacart president Carolyn Everson says she will step down at the end of the year, less than four months after joining the company (CNBC) - New!

Investigation finds that a site providing directions on how to die is linked to ~45 suicides, as Google deflects responsibility for steering users to the site (New York Times) - New!

London-based Glorify, a Christian app that offers audio prayers and more, raises a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $250M valuation (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Lyft CFO Brian Roberts, who joined the company in 2014 and took it public, leaves to become CFO at NFT marketplace OpenSea (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

Meta opens its VR social platform Horizon Worlds to all adult users in the US and Canada (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Meta says it is testing a Split Payments feature for Facebook Messenger in the US that lets users share the cost of bills and expenses (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Meta's NPE team recently set up an office in Lagos and plans another in Asia as it changes strategy to include making seed investments in small teams (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Microsoft's inclusion of buy-now-pay-later app Zip in Edge is seen by some as heavy-handed, adding bloatware that may lessen the browser's privacy and security (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Panther Labs, which helps companies detect and respond to security threats in real time, raises a $120M Series B led by Coatue at a $1.4B valuation (Mehnaz Yasmin/Reuters)

Report: Google's Pixel hardware group is working on the company's first smartwatch, internally codenamed "Rohan", which it plans to launch next year (The Verge)

SEC filing: Satya Nadella last week sold half his Microsoft stock, worth over $285M, before Washington state implements its new capital gains tax on January 1 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Salesforce Chief Revenue Officer admits the MuleSoft unit is "going through a bit of a rough patch", amid a wave of high-level departures, sales growth slowdown (Joe Williams/Bloomberg) - New!

Samsung names its newly merged smartphone, consumer electronics, and home appliances businesses as the DX (Device eXperience) Division (Heejin Kim/Bloomberg) - New!

Sources: Goldman Sachs is among a handful of tier-one US banks working on ways to use bitcoin as collateral for cash loans to institutions (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Sources: Life360, a family safety app with 33M users, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the location data broker industry's top sources (The Markup)

Sources: Sony plans to launch a subscription service, codenamed Spartacus, next spring that merges PlayStation Plus and PS Now, to compete with Xbox Game Pass (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Spotify removed the work of hundreds of comedians, including John Mulaney and Kevin Hart, amid a fight with royalty administration agency Spoken Giants (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)

Square is changing its name to Block, effective December 10, and renaming Square Crypto to Spiral, as its business shifts toward technologies like blockchain (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

The FTC sues to block Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm, arguing the chip deal is anticompetitive (Brent Kendall/Wall Street Journal)

The four leading virtual worlds recorded over $100M in NFT land sales in the past week, with The Sandbox alone seeing trading volumes of over $86M (Hristina Yordanova/DappRadar)

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces a major reorganization, in which head of engineering Michael Montano and design lead Dantley Davis will step down (Washington Post)

Twitter should consider changing its business model as its ad revenue remains weak, despite its locked-in userbase, indispensability, and impenetrable moat (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

tech

A look at China's extensive tech investments in Africa, including undersea cables, data centers, and fintech apps, as part of its "Digital Silk Road" initiative (Yinka Adegoke/Rest of World)

A look at efforts to manage climate data, gathered from satellites, aircraft, and ocean buoys, as US archives are expected to pass 650PB over the next decade (Robert Lee Hotz/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the challenges of developing a mass-market augmented reality headset as Apple reportedly prepares to launch its own mixed reality device in 2022 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

AWS announces Amplify Studio, a Figma-connected low-code service to help developers build cloud apps, as an extension of its AWS Amplify service (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

AWS announces SageMaker Studio Lab, a free version of SageMaker to help customers with little experience build, train, and deploy ML models (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

AWS says four of its cloud-based analytics services, Redshift, EMR, MSK, and Kinesis, are now available as serverless and on-demand services in public preview (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Amazon unveils SageMaker Canvas, which lets business users build ML prediction models with a point-and-click UI, following similar offerings by Azure and others (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Apple sues Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service challenging the order to allow developers to inform App Store users about alternative payment options (RT)

As Web3 takes proliferate, it's worth noting there are two distinct "is Web3 bullshit?" questions: an open-ended technical question, and whether it will "win" (Max Read/Read Max)

FBI says the "Cuba Ransomware" gang earned about $43.9M from ransom payments and breached at least 49 US critical infrastructure organizations this year (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Facebook Gaming announces a Play with Streamer feature that lets creators invite audience members to join a game, debuting alongside Pac-Man Community's launch (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Hometap, which lets homeowners get cash by taking on an investor in their house, raises $60M led by American Family Ventures, bringing its total funding to $95M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

In an internal Slack message, Marc Benioff says Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor will continue to report to him (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Instacart president Carolyn Everson says she will step down at the end of the year, less than four months after joining the company (CNBC) - New!

Investigation finds that a site providing directions on how to die is linked to ~45 suicides, as Google deflects responsibility for steering users to the site (New York Times) - New!

London-based Glorify, a Christian app that offers audio prayers and more, raises a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $250M valuation (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Lyft CFO Brian Roberts, who joined the company in 2014 and took it public, leaves to become CFO at NFT marketplace OpenSea (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

Meta opens its VR social platform Horizon Worlds to all adult users in the US and Canada (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Meta says it is testing a Split Payments feature for Facebook Messenger in the US that lets users share the cost of bills and expenses (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Meta's NPE team recently set up an office in Lagos and plans another in Asia as it changes strategy to include making seed investments in small teams (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Microsoft's inclusion of buy-now-pay-later app Zip in Edge is seen by some as heavy-handed, adding bloatware that may lessen the browser's privacy and security (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Panther Labs, which helps companies detect and respond to security threats in real time, raises a $120M Series B led by Coatue at a $1.4B valuation (Mehnaz Yasmin/Reuters)

Report: Google's Pixel hardware group is working on the company's first smartwatch, internally codenamed "Rohan", which it plans to launch next year (The Verge)

SEC filing: Satya Nadella last week sold half his Microsoft stock, worth over $285M, before Washington state implements its new capital gains tax on January 1 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Salesforce Chief Revenue Officer admits the MuleSoft unit is "going through a bit of a rough patch", amid a wave of high-level departures, sales growth slowdown (Joe Williams/Bloomberg) - New!

Samsung names its newly merged smartphone, consumer electronics, and home appliances businesses as the DX (Device eXperience) Division (Heejin Kim/Bloomberg) - New!

Sources: Goldman Sachs is among a handful of tier-one US banks working on ways to use bitcoin as collateral for cash loans to institutions (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Sources: Life360, a family safety app with 33M users, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the location data broker industry's top sources (The Markup)

Sources: Sony plans to launch a subscription service, codenamed Spartacus, next spring that merges PlayStation Plus and PS Now, to compete with Xbox Game Pass (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Spotify removed the work of hundreds of comedians, including John Mulaney and Kevin Hart, amid a fight with royalty administration agency Spoken Giants (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)

Square is changing its name to Block, effective December 10, and renaming Square Crypto to Spiral, as its business shifts toward technologies like blockchain (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

The FTC sues to block Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm, arguing the chip deal is anticompetitive (Brent Kendall/Wall Street Journal)

The four leading virtual worlds recorded over $100M in NFT land sales in the past week, with The Sandbox alone seeing trading volumes of over $86M (Hristina Yordanova/DappRadar)

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces a major reorganization, in which head of engineering Michael Montano and design lead Dantley Davis will step down (Washington Post)

Twitter should consider changing its business model as its ad revenue remains weak, despite its locked-in userbase, indispensability, and impenetrable moat (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)