Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images (Wall Street Journal)

Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: on Tuesday, China’s internet regulator told Tencent, ByteDance, and others to grow censorship teams, focus on protest content, and censor info on VPNs  —  Online regulators tell big tech companies to expand censorship of information on protests and take steps to curb the virtual private networks used to bypass online controls

Financial Times:
Chinese internet censors suspend thousands of WeChat accounts and remove posts after a rare protest in central Beijing against “dictator and traitor Xi Jinping”  —  Banners hung from bridge call for leader’s removal ahead of Communist party congress

Nelson Wang / CoinDesk:
Stablecoin issuer Tether claims to have reduced its commercial paper holdings to zero, replaced with US Treasury bills, after saying it would by the end of 2022  —  The company has been gradually replacing its commercial paper holdings with U.S. Treasury bills.

Washington Post:
A look at efforts by Google, Signal, Tor, and others to help Iranian protestors evade censorship; the White House has signaled support and relaxed sanctions  —  Though Yasmin Green fled Iran with her parents at 3 years old, she has never been more involved in the struggles of its people.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft confirms two zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited; one researcher suspects a Chinese threat actor  —  Microsoft has confirmed that two recently reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Google updates Chrome to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Mojo, its sixth patch for zero-day vulnerabilities in 2022  —  Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a single high-severity security flaw …