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Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas sales up 2% to $50.4B, Europe 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 for its fiscal 2024 first quarter ended December 30, 2023.
More: Associated Press, Wccftech, iMore, Macworld, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Investor's Business Daily, and Six Colors
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that the company plans to announce “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.
More: The Verge, Hindustan Times, Business Today, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Economic Times, Cryptopolitan, CRN, Benzinga, Tom's Guide, Yahoo Finance, and CNBC
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone up 6% YoY to $69.7B, Mac up 1% to $7.78B, iPad down 25% to $7.02B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 11% to $11.95B — 10 minutes ago
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook says Apple doesn't intend to license Masimo's blood oxygen detection to end the Apple Watch import ban — Apple CEO Tim Cook says there isn't any intention to license Masimo's blood oxygen detection to end the Apple Watch import ban. — Masimo has been embroiled in a patent lawsuit … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg described Apple's new DMA rules as “so onerous” that he doubts any developer, including Meta, would adopt them — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has added his voice to those criticizing Apple's compliance with the EU's new Digital Markets Act …
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, New York Times, AppleInsider, and SAMTIME on YouTube
| PR Newswire: |
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; META up 15%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Meta says it will pay a 50 cent dividend for the first time, and has authorized a $50B share buyback
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| 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 ‘nation state’ attacker who accessed its Confluence wiki …
More: The Cloudflare Blog, The Register, Cyber Daily, PCMag, and The Record
Mastodon: @beny23@infosec.exchange. X: @cloudflare, @mattjamesboyle, @codewithcaen, and @eastdakota. LinkedIn: Randall Hettinger
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, and Lobsters
| 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%+ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023. Fourth Quarter 2023
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
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| 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 might add links to the Wayback Machine in place of the cache link. — Google officially removed the cache link …
More: Search Engine Roundtable, The Verge, and Tedium
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant trained on its product catalog and information from around the web, in beta for some US customers — Amazon announced today the launch of an AI-powered shopping assistant it's calling Rufus that's been trained on the e-commerce giant's product catalog …
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| 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 … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts ImageFX, an AI image generator underpinned by Imagen 2, with “expressive chips”, or keyword suggestions, and brings Imagen 2 to Vertex AI and Bard — Taylor Swift deepfakes be damned, Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, TextFX, for image creation.| 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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| 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 — Blackbaud has settled with the Federal Trade Commission after being charged with poor security and reckless data retention practices …
More: Federal Trade Commission, The Record, and InfoRiskToday.com
Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.town. X: @ftc, @suzannemsmalley, @ftc, @anaelisafoto, @skye_witley, and @swiftstories
| James Hunt / The Block: |
The US EIA plans to begin surveying crypto miners' electricity use next week; the EIA justified the emergency data collection by citing BTC's 50% price increase — - The Energy Information Administration will begin surveying the electricity use of U.S. crypto miners next week …
More: U.S. Energy Information …, CNET, Bloomberg, Crypto Daily, TFTC, CoinGape, and Crypto Briefing
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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 — Google is bringing generative AI to — where else? — Google Maps, promising to help users find cool places through the use of large language models (LLM).| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA orders US federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure VPN appliances vulnerable to actively exploited bugs before February 3 — CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti Connect Secure or Policy Secure VPN appliances vulnerable … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says developers have optimized 600+ apps for the Vision Pro in time for its February 2 launch, including Airmail, Box, MUBI, Night Sky, Parcel, and PCalc — Apple today announced that over 600 apps with native support for visionOS will be available on the Vision Pro when the headset launches in the U.S. this Friday.
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X: @_chuckyc, @munster_gene, @lindadong, @markgurman, @levie, @nickadobos, @appleinsider, @caro_milanesi, @swiftor, @kentbye, @drbarnard, @tim_cook, @emcro, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @neilcybart, @levie, @scobleizer, @greengart, @munster_gene, @hiddevdploeg, @scobleizer, @scobleizer, @adamlisagor, and @kevinoconnornba. LinkedIn: Samantha Garrison
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| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
More: Fortune, Disconnect, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AR Insider, PCMag, Business Insider, Road to VR, Cult of Mac, On my Om, VentureBeat, New York Post, Benzinga, TechCrunch, Financial Times, and Wired
Threads: @lukehurd, @chriswelch, @chris, @brianstelter, @neil.cybart, @benedictevans, @ericflo, @technicallymims, @techaltar, @om, @heaney_555, @neil.cybart, @alexkantrowitz, @jonasd, @makenakellyx, @benedictevans, @jvlast, and @jbillinson. Mastodon: @lexfri@hachyderm.io
X: @stevesi, @patrickwitty, @stephmui, @palmerluckey, @vanityfair, @kylascan, @trungtphan, @kantrowitz, @neilcybart, @scobleizer, @gregorymcfadden, @basicappleguy, @briantong, @jetscott, @finndyrud, @benz145, @9to5mac, @lastcallcnbc, @om, @benbajarin, @tsimonite, @nickbilton, @cbalfe, @ananayarora, @elonmusk, @mlcalderone, @brianstelter, @smtuffy, @rsgnl, @neilcybart, @waffyonyt, @bzamayo, @yuris, @andrewrsorkin, @dennycloudhead, @joannastern, @hmltn, @_lucasrizzotto, @gartenberg, @carlquintanilla, @samsheffer, @jamestitcomb, @neilcybart, @jetscott, @mgsiegler, @bzamayo, @_jamesoloughlin, @joannastern, @kentbye, @tomgara, @snazzylabs, @rsgnl, and @vanityfair. LinkedIn: Nathan Guetta
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