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Internal memo: Google now plans to have employees return to office in September 2021 and is testing a flexible model of three days in office, two days WFH (Daisuke Wakabayashi/New York Times)

Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: Internal memo: Google now plans to have employees return to office in September 2021 and is testing a flexible model of three days in office, two days WFH — The Silicon Valley company now plans to have employees return to the office in September. It will be different when they get there. https://bit.ly/381MDsb

Nēsos, which is developing a noninvasive, drug-free method to treat rheumatoid arthritis using a wearable earbud, comes out of stealth with $16.5M in funding (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Nēsos, which is developing a noninvasive, drug-free method to treat rheumatoid arthritis using a wearable earbud, comes out of stealth with $16.5M in funding — Nēsos launched out of stealth Thursday and is poised to commercialize a new method for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. https://bit.ly/3oOVep0

Sources: Facebook considers physical retaliation from Hindu extremist groups as a danger in India, which it ranks as a "Tier One" country for societal violence (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Facebook considers physical retaliation from Hindu extremist groups as a danger in India, which it ranks as a “Tier One” country for societal violence — Social media giant's security team cites possible attacks if extremist Hindu groups are kicked off platform https://bit.ly/2ILHfRt

How US FinCEN became a honeypot for sensitive personal data, a situation made worse by the banking industry's defensive filing of suspicious activity reports (Benjamin Powers/CoinDesk)

Benjamin Powers / CoinDesk: How US FinCEN became a honeypot for sensitive personal data, a situation made worse by the banking industry's defensive filing of suspicious activity reports — If a despotic government's bank transactions can be leaked, so can yours. — That's perhaps the most overlooked yet unsettling implication … https://bit.ly/3nfQKr0

Sources: point-of-sale lender Affirm is postponing its IPO until next year (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: point-of-sale lender Affirm is postponing its IPO until next year — The point-of-sale lender is the second company in as many days to pull back from the IPO market — Affirm Holdings Inc. is postponing its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter … https://bit.ly/37bI7Ik

Eric Engstrom, one of the pioneers behind DirectX which helped make Windows a dominant gaming platform and paved the way for Xbox, died at 55 on December 1 (James R. Hagerty/Wall Street Journal)

James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal: Eric Engstrom, one of the pioneers behind DirectX which helped make Windows a dominant gaming platform and paved the way for Xbox, died at 55 on December 1 — Eric Engstrom was part of rebellious team behind technology that paved way for Xbox — In the early 1990s, Microsoft Corp.'s … https://bit.ly/348BkgB

Internal memo: Roblox, citing soaring market debuts of Airbnb and DoorDash, says it is too difficult to price its shares and will delay its IPO until next year (Maureen Farrell/Wall Street Journal)

Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: Internal memo: Roblox, citing soaring market debuts of Airbnb and DoorDash, says it is too difficult to price its shares and will delay its IPO until next year — Videogame company, citing Airbnb and DoorDash market debuts, says it is too difficult to price its shares https://bit.ly/3a2ceUn