British artist Damien Hirst burns thousands of his paintings live on Instagram as part of an NFT project, “completing the transformation” from physical to NFTs (Halisia Hubbard/NPR)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon updates its Fire TV lineup with a new $140 Fire TV Cube media player, Fire TV Omni QLED Series starting at $800, and a new $35 Alexa Voice Remote Pro  —  Amazon today introduced two new Fire TV devices designed to cater to customers seeking a more premium experience.

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A New York-based artist received copyright registration on a comic featuring artwork by Midjourney, the first known US copyright for latent diffusion AI art  —  Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics.  —  In what might be a first …

Kate Park / TechCrunch:
LG launches LG Art Lab which lets US users buy, sell, and trade NFTs on its smart TVs, partners with Hedera to enable purchases via LG’s crypto wallet, Wallypto  —  LG Electronics said today it has released its non-fungible token (NFT) platform LG Art Lab, which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG’s smart TVs.

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk:
Luxury auction house Christie’s launches Christie’s 3.0, an Ethereum-based platform for NFT art in partnership with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial  —  Christie’s 3.0 has teamed up with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial to sell NFT artwork on Ethereum.  —  Luxury auction house Christie’s …

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Updated App Store guidelines say that apps may sell NFTs via IAP and display NFTs, provided that NFT ownership does not unlock in-app features  —  Following the release of iOS 16.1 and other software updates on Monday, Apple has updated the App Store guidelines to revise some existing rules and add new ones.

Neirin Gray Desai / Rest of World:
How Minecraft’s ban on NFTs impacted the play-to-earn Critterz NFT community, some of whom bought in for thousands of dollars and earned hundreds per month  —  Kids in the Philippines were earning hundreds of dollars from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a tailspin.