Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey’s inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick’s weakness in managing company culture  —  A conversation with Chris Sacca about climate investing — and Travis Kalanick.  —  Chris Sacca apologized for joining our Zoom call a few minutes late. Source

An interview with a16z’s Jonathan Lai on Games Fund One, the VC firm’s new $600M fund for games that will invest in studios, infrastructure, and consumer apps  —  Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $600 million fund to invest in games.  The storied venture capital firm is already a big investor in games. Source

FCC chair notified Congress that US service providers have requested ~$5.6B for removing and replacing network equipment and services provided by Huawei and ZTE  —  WASHINGTON Today, Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel notified Congress that providers have initially requested approximately $5.6 billion. Source

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer UK sanctions Baikal Electronics and MCST, Russia’s most important chipmakers, denying them access to the ARM architecture  —  The UK government added 63 Russian entities to its sanction list on Wednesday.  Among them are Baikal Electronics and MCST (Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies), the two most important chip makers in Russia….

Adding crypto to IndiaStack, a set of national APIs for payments and identity, could allow India to build an OSS stack for domestic and foreign transactions  —  Use the digital rupee to facilitate domestic commerce and crypto protocols to attract international investment. Source

Interview with Atari CEO Fred Chesnais on leveraging the Atari brand, including through hotels and virtual clothing, shipping the VCS console, more  —  Under CEO Fred Chesnais, Atari is a company with just 28 employees.  That’s pretty small for the oldest brand in video games. Source

A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets  —  Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry?  —  n 2018, William Frederick Keck. Source

Profile of Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov, who is charged with treason in Russia, sources say for allegedly giving the US info about Fancy Bear’s 2016 operation  —  Ilya Sachkov, who’s been charged with treason in Russia, is alleged to have given the U.S. information about the “Fancy Bear” Source

People are sending news about Ukraine to Russians using a website that randomly selects from a list of ~20M phone numbers and ~140M email addresses in Russia  —  Website developed by hackers is new initiative in West’s battle to counter Russia’s propaganda campaign. Source

NYC-based Level, which helps companies offer customized employee benefits plans and touts the ability to process claims in four hours, raises $27M Series A  —  Level, a startup that aims to give companies a more flexible way to offer benefits to employees, has raised $27 million in a Series. Source