It's that very slow week before the new year, so we're bringing you a bite-sized episode. No interviews this week, just Darrell walking you through a few of the most interesting stories from the past week  Please take a second to rate and review The TechCrunch Podcast and follow us wherever you listen to podcasts. We'll see you in 2023!

Articles from the episode:

• Twitter suffered outage after Elon Musk made ‘significant’ backend server architecture changes
• LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults
• Kickstarter shut down the campaign for AI porn group Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines