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Apple reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to $89.5B, vs. $89.3B est., and net income up 11% YoY to $22.9B — iPhone revenue sets September quarter record Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter ended September 30, 2023.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 3% YoY to $43.81B, Mac down 34% to $7.61B, iPad down 10% to $6.44B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 3% to $9.32B — - Apple reported fourth-fiscal quarter earnings on Thursday that beat analyst expectations for sales and earnings per share …
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Forums: r/apple, r/StockMarket, and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Secure Future Initiative, which includes responding faster to vulnerabilities and using AI and automation to improve software security — Microsoft has had a rough few years of cybersecurity incidents. It found itself at the center of the SolarWinds attack nearly three years ago …
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| Financial Times: |
Meta, OpenAI, and others sign a non-binding document to let the US, the UK, and other nations test AI models for national security risks prior to their release — OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Meta among those who signed legally non-binding document at UK's AI safety summit
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| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr release Now and Then, the first “new” Beatles song since 1995, created using AI and an old lo-fi John Lennon recording — Today marks the release of the first “new” song by the Beatles since 1995. “Now and Then” is available on streaming services …
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
US v. SBF: in closing statements, the US relied heavily on evidence to argue SBF is guilty and he was “greedy” while SBF's defense managed to make things worse — Mistakes aren't illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried's lawyers never made his defense land.
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| Bloomberg: |
The FTC says Jeff Bezos ordered Amazon executives to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to early 2022 — - FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Chrome team stops considering a Web Integrity API proposal that aimed to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, after DRM comparisons — Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. While prototyped, it was only at the proposal stage …
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| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
US v. Google: Apple's Eddy Cue sent Tim Cook a presentation in 2013 that declared “Android is a massive tracking device” and detailed Google's privacy practices — - Apple's internal presentation from 2013 is part of new exhibits posted by the Department of Justice in the ongoing Google antitrust trial.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google AdSense will soon move from paying per click to paying per impression and split the revenue share into separate rates for the buy-side and sell-side — Google today announced two changes to AdSense, but doesn't “expect publishers to see a change in their earnings” and payments.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Brave releases its AI assistant Leo to all desktop users and unveils Leo Premium, offering access to faster and better LLMs and higher rate limits for $15/month — Brave, a company building an alternative web browser, is releasing its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all desktop users.| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
YouTube begins restricting how often US teens receive repeated video recommendations about sensitive topics like body image and plans to expand globally in 2024 — Starting November 2nd, YouTube will impose restrictions on how often teens receive repeated video recommendations related …
More: YouTube Official Blog, Tech Xplore, Lifewire, Mashable, Gizmodo, and TechCrunch
LinkedIn: James Beser and Megan Jones Bell
| Reuters: |
Elon Musk says Starlink is cash-flow breakeven; in 2021, Musk said SpaceX would spin off and take Starlink public once its cash flow was reasonably predictable — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday the rocket company's satellite internet unit, Starlink, had achieved cash flow breakeven.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
New York AG Letitia James says Uber and Lyft agreed to pay a combined $328M to settle allegations they withheld wages from drivers and did not provide sick pay — - Uber and Lyft agreed to pay a total of $328 million to settle allegations that they unlawfully withheld wages from drivers …
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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Arm acquires a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, extending the two companies' partnership that began in 2008 and has resulted in ARM CPUs in all Raspberry Pi SoCs — Arm wants a slice of Pi — Arm Holdings plc today announced that it has made a strategic investment, a minority stake in Raspberry Pi Ltd …
More: Arm Newsroom, TechRadar, and TechSpot
X: @arm, @mbanzi, @whataintinside, and @anujdeshpandey
Forums: Hacker News and r/hardware
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon closes its two Style physical clothing stores, after opening the first in May 2022 and closing most of its physical stores, including bookstores, in 2022 — - Shuttering follows axing of bookstores, Amazon 4-Star shops — Company recently began redesigning its Fresh supermarkets| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
A New Jersey high school and police investigate after male students shared AI-generated nudes of female students in group chats; parents are unsure what to do — After boys shared faked pornographic images made of female classmates, both the school and the local police began investigating
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