Our exclusive interview with Martin Winter, NetDEF founder; we went to China’s IDCC conference as well as Capacity Asia in Singapore, and as usual we have a bunch of other great tech stories too this week. Here’s our rundown.

Read more about each story on the links below:

Martin Winter, NetDEF: Open source software should be much more widely used
https://btw.media/en/elon-musks-x-in-crisis-as-major-brands-suspend-all-acitvity-on-the-platform

IDCC2023: China explores the ethics of AI and the digital economy
https://btw.media/en/googles-pioneering-geothermal-venture-in-nevada

Elon Musk’s X.AI is a bottomless money pit.
https://btw.media/en/ripe-87-something-needs-to-change-finance-officer-describes-a-problematic-future

Capacity Asia 2023: Who’s attending, and what can we expect?
https://btw.media/en/switch-off-to-switch-on-the-internets-eco-conscious-wake-up-call-from-ripe-87

Amazon and Venmo part ways due to unspecified ‘recent changes’
https://btw.media/en/tumblr-discontinues-post-plus-subscriptions-as-part-of-platform