An interview with the co-founder of Vietnamese unicorn VNG, which offers games and services like Zalo, a messaging app that had 74M+ MAUs in Vietnam in February (Bloomberg)

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
In a Senate committee hearing, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter execs defended their platforms and dodged questions about security, privacy, and moderation  —  Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday …

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Seesaw, a messaging app for parents and teachers with 10M users, says it suffered a credential stuffing attack, after users said they received an explicit image  —  A messaging app for parents and teachers said Wednesday that it was hacked after some parents said they had received messages …

Bloomberg:
Sundar Pichai said in a Code Conference interview that Google is “pro-competitive” and cited Microsoft, Apple, and TikTok as competitors in different businesses  —  Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google parent Alphabet Inc., defended the internet-search giant against claims …

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app acquired by AWS in 2021, will shut down on December 31, 2023 and stop accepting new users at the end of 2022  —  Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, is shutting down on December 31st, 2023.

Joe Tidy / BBC:
A Vietnamese couple says they wiped some of Intercontinental Hotels Group’s data, accessed using the password Qwerty1234, after a failed ransomware attack  —  Hackers have told the BBC they carried out a destructive cyber-attack against Holiday Inn owner Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) “for fun”.

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
PhotoRoom, which is bringing generative AI to its photo editing app for e-commerce vendors and SMBs, raised a $19M Series A; the app has 7M MAUs, 40M+ downloads  —  French startup PhotoRoom has raised a $19 million Series A funding round.  The company develops a popular photo editing app for e-commerce vendors and small businesses.