Twitter’s Spaces is well positioned to challenge Clubhouse as it’s intuitive, a logical fit for Twitter, and adds a meaningful new experience to the Twitter app (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Court filings show that Epic committed $444M on “minimum guarantees” for game developers that release on Epic Game Store but stay off of Steam for a year (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)

Security-focused IoT service Afero, raises a $50M Series C led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to an estimated ~$100M (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)

A YouTube channel run from Germany by exiled Turkish journalists was shut due to copyright claims from Turkey; one expert blames YouTube’s Turkey office (Cevheri Güven/Turkish Minute)

DeFi platform bZx says a hacker stole an estimated $55M worth of cryptocurrency assets after spear-phishing one of its employees and swiping two private keys (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Palo Alto-based Motorq, a connected-car data analysis service for businesses, raises a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners (Liz Hughes/IoT World Today)

SEC confirms it is investigating SoftBank in response to a FOIA request on its trading activities, after SoftBank was alleged to be a Nasdaq whale last year (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)

David Spade Lists His Beautiful Beverly Hills Home for $20M

Chinese-founded Agora, which a source says provides back-end communications tools for Clubhouse, rose 30% on Monday to $73.60 as Elon Musk joined Clubhouse (Josh Ye/South China Morning Post)

NFT and metaverse content creation company Infinite Reality announces an all-stock deal worth $470M to acquire esports company ReKT Global (Michael Bellusci/CoinDesk)

Sydney-based Baraja, which makes a Spectrum-Scan LIDAR with no moving parts, raises $31M Series B led by Blackbird Ventures, after $32M Series A two years ago (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Q&A with Intel EVP Dr. Ann Kelleher on lessons learned from the company’s misadventures with 10nm process nodes, its vision for Foundry Services, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/AnandTech)