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Apple reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $90.75B, net income down 2% to $23.64B, and announces a $110B share buyback, its largest yet; AAPL jumps 5% after hours — Services revenue reaches new all-time record — EPS sets March quarter record — Apple® today announced financial results …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B — Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to journalists after his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds carveouts to its EU core tech fee, exempting free app developers and giving those with annual global revenue under €10M a three-year “free on-ramp” — Apple is tweaking how it applies a new fee that can apply to iOS developers in the European Union as it continues …
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Mastodon: @rileytestut@mastodon.social. X: @timsweeneyepic, @florian4gamers, and @keleftheriou. Forums: Slashdot
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google says 400M+ Google Accounts have used passkeys since the rollout, logging 1B+ authentications, and expands passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program — Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out passkey support for all consumer accounts; Microsoft account owners can generate passkeys across Windows, Android, and iOS — Microsoft is fully rolling out passkey support for all consumer accounts today. After enabling them in Windows 11 last year … | Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Universal Music Group and TikTok strike a new music licensing deal to bring UMG music back to the platform, including “improved remuneration” and AI protections — The months-long standoff between Universal Music Group and TikTok over royalty payments and AI policies is finally over …
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| Sudz Niel Kar / MyHealthyApple: |
Apple Watch's AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA's MDDT program — The FDA today announced that it has qualified the Apple Watch AFib ( Atrial Fibrillation) history feature as an MDDT (Medical Device Development Tools).
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| Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener: |
[Thread] California State Senator Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill, SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI's competitors” and open-source AI — AI policy is a new & fast-moving field & it's healthy & important to have a diversity of perspectives. However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected: 🧵
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| New York Times: |
A US federal judge grills the DOJ and Google in the closing arguments of US v. Google, as the most consequential tech antitrust case since the 1990s concludes — Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech.| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Block plans to invest 10% of its gross profit from bitcoin products each month into bitcoin purchases; its $220M BTC investment grew by ~160% to $573M as of Q1 — - Jack Dorsey's digital payments firm lifts 2024 profit outlook — Bitcoin is best candidate for open money protocol: Dorsey
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| The Verge: |
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy steps down, as the company lays off ~15% of its workforce, or ~400 people, its fifth cut since its 2021 peak, when it had 8,600 staff — Peloton's CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after announcing yet another round of layoffs, this time affecting about 15 percent …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase reports Q1 net revenue up 116% YoY to $1.59B, vs. $1.32B est., net income of $1.18B, consumer transaction revenue of $935M, up 99% QoQ — - Consumer transaction revenue almost doubled from last quarter — Urges ‘caution in extrapolating’ results so far this quarter
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft confirms the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms on Windows 11, 10, and Server 2008 or later — Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms.
More: The Verge, Engadget, CNET, Laptop Mag, ZDNet, Windows Central, Tech.co, and Ars Technica
| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
As people yearn for the web's “good old days”, bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users — Listen to a voiceover of this post, download the recording for later, or subscribe to the feed in your podcast app.
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X: @aaronsdevera, @molly0xfff, @ethanz, @katylcowan, @darius, and @philebloomfield. Forums: Hacker News
| Russell Brandom / Rest of World: |
WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain “traceability” for messages as part of 2021's IT rules — Tracing the origins of messages is more complicated than it sounds. — Russell Brandom is the U.S. Tech Editor at Rest of World.| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Tether partners with Chainalysis to identify risky crypto addresses that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities, like terrorist financing — The monitoring system would help Tether identify risky crypto addresses that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities …
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| Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
Sources and documents: Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at US universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation — - Chinese telecom maker is sole funder of optics competition — Blacklisted company's role kept private by DC-based group
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| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Sony plans to remove Horizon Zero Dawn, one of its biggest first-party PS4-only games, from PlayStation Plus on May 21, adding to speculation of a PS5 remaster — Horizon Zero Dawn to leave later this month. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — Follow Horizon: Zero Dawn| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI services infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200K people in AI skills in the country — - Nadella announces plan for more AI infrastructure in Malaysia — Tech companies are targeting Southeast Asia as new growth area
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Rabbit R1 review: $199 is the right price, fun design, and a good mic, but the best features are all MIA, finicky and slow, and using a phone is better — Artificial intelligence might someday make technology easier to use and even do things on your behalf. All the Rabbit R1 does right now is make me tear my hair out.| Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN: |
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