Linux distribution company SUSE says it’s creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and plans to invest $10M into the project over the coming years (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

A US district judge dismissed a suit by r/WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski who accused Reddit of wrongly banning him as the community’s moderator in 2020 (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Source: the US FTC is leaning toward appealing the judge’s Microsoft-Activision ruling; an appeal could be filed as soon as Wednesday (Bloomberg)

Threads can avoid Google+’s failure by not simply relying on the scale of Meta’s existing products, but by giving users a compelling reason to keep coming back (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Interviews with executives and staff at Anthropic reveal how an obsession with AI safety and ties to effective altruism influence the startup’s decisions (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Sources: ByteDance will allow restricted shares held by US employees to vest before the company’s IPO, in an effort to appease restless employees (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Accounting firm KPMG plans to invest $2B in AI and cloud services globally over the next five years through an expanded partnership with Microsoft (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

India’s Goods and Services Tax Council agrees to levy a 28% indirect tax on online gaming, casinos, and horse racing, rejecting that they are “games of skill” (TechCrunch)

Roger Thomas Clark, who was Silk Road’s second-in-command, behind Ross Ulbricht, is sentenced to 20 years, following his extradition from Thailand in 2018 (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Meta now lets avatars be used to answer and make video calls on Instagram and Messenger and adds ways to share animated avatar stickers (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

US DOJ arrests a security engineer on wire fraud and money laundering charges, saying he “fraudulently obtained” $9M through a DEX by creating fake pricing data (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Gemini sues DCG and its founder Barry Silbert, accusing Barry Silbert of being the architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against creditors (Sarah Wynn/The Block)