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Alex Koller / CNBC:
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook appeared at the company's flagship Fifth Avenue store in NYC for the launch  —  - Apple's Vision Pro virtual reality headset is now on sale at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the online U.S. Apple Store.
Apple:
Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas net sales up 2% to $50.4B, and Europe net sales up 10% to $30.4B  —  Services revenue reaches new all-time record EPS up 16 percent to new all-time high  —  Apple® today announced financial results …
William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features and the company plans to detail its ongoing work “later this year”  —  Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Tim Cook says Apple doesn't intend to license Masimo's blood oxygen detection patents to end the US' Apple Watch import ban, and is instead “focused on appeal”
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone up 6% YoY to $69.7B, Mac up 1% YoY to $7.78B, iPad down 25% YoY to $7.02B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 11% YoY to $11.95B
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple Q1: revenue from Services, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, rose 11% YoY to a record $23.1B, and the installed base passed 2.2B active devices
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg:
Meta's stock rises 20%+, adding ~$200B to its market cap, the biggest single-session market value addition, eclipsing Apple's and Amazon's $190B gains in 2022  —  - Stock also holds record for the biggest wipeout in history  — Shares surge after big earnings beat, buyback, dividend plans
Meta:
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $40.1B, net income up 201% YoY to $14B, and family daily active people up 8% YoY to 3.19B for December 2023
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
On Meta's earnings call, Zuckerberg says Apple's changes to comply with the EU's DMA are “so onerous” he doubts any developer, including Meta, would adopt them
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta's Reality Labs unit generated $1B+ in Q4 revenue but saw a record $4.65B operating loss; the metaverse division has now lost $42B+ since the end of 2020
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg says that Threads now has more than 130M MAUs, more than “during its initial launch peak”, and is “growing steadily”
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Meta plans to start paying quarterly dividend for the first time, of 50 cents per share, “subject to market conditions”, and authorizes a $50B share buyback
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future”  —  Google officially removed the cache link from the Google Search results snippets last week and Google confirmed that it will remove …
James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in January, the US DOJ charged three people over a phone-hacking scheme that included the FTX hack to steal $400M+ during the exchange's 2022 collapse  —  The hack coincided with the crypto exchange's meltdown more than a year ago  —  Federal investigators appear to have cracked …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who was convicted for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on February 1 for espionage and more  —  A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency's history was sentenced …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
How the EFF, Techdirt, MuckRock, and DDoSecrets are pushing back against legal threats aiming to censor reports on Appin's alleged hacker-for-hire past  —  A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight the legal threats aimed at making reports of one Indian company's hacker-for-hire past disappear.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Cloudflare says it was hacked in November 2023 by a suspected “nation state attacker” who used auth tokens stolen in Okta's breach from October 2023  —  Cloudflare disclosed today that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a suspected ‘nation state attacker’ who accessed …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Amazon spending on content rose 14% YoY to $18.9B in 2023 despite Hollywood strikes  —  While other media companies have been paring back content spending, Amazon shelled out more than $2 billion more in 2023 for TV shows, movies and music than it did a year earlier.
Amazon:
Amazon Q4: revenue up 14% YoY to $170B, net income of $10.6B vs. $0.3B YoY, operating income of $13.2B, and subscription revenue up 14% to $10.5B; AMZN up 5%+
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Amazon reports Q4 AWS revenue up 13% YoY to $24.2B, vs. $24.26B est., and operating income of $7.2B, up from $5.2B YoY
Gian Volpicelli / Politico:
EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill awaits formal approval of EU Parliament  —  The bloc's law to regulate AI overcomes threats of late opposition.  —  Free article usually reserved for subscribers
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
Intel delays the construction of its $20B Ohio chip fabs amid a slow rollout of US government grant money; sources: the fabs are now set to finish in late 2026  —  Construction on two factories now slated to be finished in late 2026 as company also waits for government incentives

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From Mediagazer

Minho Kim / New York Times:
A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March

Feras Kilani / BBC:
A BBC journalist describes being detained and held at gunpoint with five other journalists and a cameraman by the Israel Defense Forces in Syria on May 9

Karishma Mehrotra / Washington Post:
Major Indian newsrooms aired misinformation during the conflict with Pakistan in May, saying Pakistani cities had been destroyed and airing unrelated visuals

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FTC settles with Blackbaud, ordering the cloud software company to delete consumers' data and boost security after a May 2020 data breach affected millions

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Google plans to roll out a Google Maps feature that uses LLMs to analyze its data on 250M+ places and community insights to recommend places, starting in the US
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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