Hands-on with Netflix’s Basic with Ads: while most shows have pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads are more unpredictable; many popular shows are locked to higher tiers (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Netflix says its Basic with Ads tier will cost $6.99 per month and launch on November 3, 2022 in 12 countries, including the US, Australia, Germany, and the UK  —  Starting in November, Netflix will finally roll out its new ad-supported tier for just a few bucks a month …

Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Twitch plans to prohibit streaming unlicensed gambling sites with slots, roulette, or dice games on October 18, amid the fallout from a streamer’s gambling scam  —  As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform’s allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow.

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: Netflix’s ad-supported tier may debut on Nov. 1 in markets including Canada, France, Germany, UK, and US; the date was moved to beat Disney+’s Dec. 8  —  Netflix is moving up the timeline for the debut of its cheaper, ad-supported plan to November — in order to get out before the Dec. 8 launch …

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
How Netflix plans to fight slowing growth, including via an ad-supported tier; Netflix accounts for ~8% of all TV viewership in the US, the most of any network  —  Around noon on Wednesday, March 16, hundreds of Netflix Inc. employees gathered on the second floor of the Anaheim Hilton Hotel expecting to hear good news.

Xinyi Luo / CoinDesk:
Alameda-backed DeFi projects Maps.me, a maps app for travelers, and “DeFi Prime Brokerage protocol” Oxygen say 95%+ of their native tokens are locked up at FTX  —  Alameda Research led funding rounds into both companies in 2021.  —  Maps.me and Oxygen, two decentralized finance …

Jaclyn Allen / TheDenverChannel.com:
Utility company Xcel locked 22,000 Colorado users in an energy saving program out of their smart thermostats for hours on August 30 citing an “energy emergency”  —  22,000 people lost control of temperatures in their homes for hours Tuesday  —  DENVER — During the dog days of summer …