After a package exploded at Northeastern University’s VR center, sources say it included a rambling note criticizing Mark Zuckerberg and VR (CNN)

Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sources: Protocol, a tech news-focused website that launched in early 2020, will shutter later this week and lay off its entire staff of ~60  —  New York CNN Business —  Protocol, the upstart technology news website launched by former Politico owner and publisher Robert Allbritton in early 2020 …

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, launched in 2021 to “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate purchasers with FLOW tokens or stablecoins  —  You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace for its own NFTs …

Brian Fung / CNN:
Twitter deletes @TwitterSafety’s thread and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  Twitter deleted its controversial new policy on Sunday evening that had banned links to certain other social media platforms, less than 24 hours after the policy’s initial introduction.

Rachel Metz / CNN:
Several artists whose work was included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion say they are angry that they weren’t informed, asked for consent, or paid  —  Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known.

Jennifer Korn / CNN:
Researchers submitted 20 ads with “blatant” voting misinfo and TikTok approved 90% of them, Facebook approved a “significant number”, YouTube approved none  —  New York CNN Business —  Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” …

Tom Giles / Bloomberg:
Filing: Twitter says Elon Musk is under a federal investigation related to his acquisition of the company and asks for access to docs he gave to authorities  —  Billionaire Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities related to his attempted acquisition of Twitter Inc. …