Q&A with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz as the company surpasses $2B in annual revenue and looks to become a bigger player in data observability and IT operations (Kyle Alspach/Protocol)

Kyle Alspach / Protocol:
Microsoft confirms some customer data was left exposed due to a server configuration error but calls claims that 65K+ companies were affected an exaggeration  —  Microsoft said Wednesday that an unspecified amount of customer data, including contact info and email content …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles  —  Apple Inc. has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development, an escalation of an existing plan to reduce budgets heading …

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K and i5-13600K review: improved V/F curve and more efficiency cores compared to Alder Lake and highly competitive with AMD Zen 4  —  Today marks the release of Intel’s 13th generation Core processor series, codenamed Raptor Lake.

Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol:
An interview with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on delisting tether and USDC, stablecoin and CBDC evolution, the “Chinese company” label, the downturn, and more  —  In crypto, he is known simply as CZ, head of one of the industry’s most dominant players.

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Meta details influence operations by Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia  —  Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …

Max A. Cherney / Protocol:
Nvidia and AMD say the US imposed export restrictions on chips used for AI applications to Russia and China, affecting chips like Nvidia’s A100 and AMD’s MI200  —  The U.S. has begun to impose fresh restrictions on exports of advanced chips necessary for AI-related applications to Russia and China …