Maven, a digital health startup focused on women and families, raised a $90M Series E led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $300M (Eric Rosenbaum/CNBC)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Florida’s attorney general asks the US Supreme Court whether the First Amendment prohibits states from regulating how social media companies moderate content  —  The state attorney general filed a petition to the Court on Wednesday, after two lower courts split on decisions about social media laws

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Fortanix, which offers enterprise encryption tools for data being processed, raised a $90M Series C led by Growth Equity, bringing its total funding to $122M  —  Cybersecurity startup and confidential computing pioneer Fortanix Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper $90 million round of funding …

The Verge:
In response to SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade in June, period tracking app Flo releases an Anonymous Mode for iOS, improving privacy but disabling some features  —  Period tracking app Flo released an “Anonymous Mode” on Wednesday, which lets people use the app without linking their data to their name, email address, or IP address.

Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocks the Texas social media law from going into effect, as industry groups seek to bring the case to the Supreme Court  —  The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a controversial Texas social media law from going into effect Wednesday as industry groups seek to bring the case to the Supreme Court.

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment  —  Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
The SCOTUS agrees to hear two Section 230-related cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, both stemming from terrorist content on the services  —  The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued over targeted content recommendations …