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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| 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 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.
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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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| James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in January, the US DOJ charged three people with a phone-hacking scheme that included the hack of FTX to steal $400M+ at the time of its 2022 collapse — The hack coincided with the crypto exchange's meltdown more than a year ago — Federal investigators appear to have cracked …
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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 officially removed the cache link from the Google Search results snippets last week and Google confirmed that it will remove …
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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 suspected ‘nation state attacker’ who accessed …
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| 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.| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
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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 … | 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.| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: some independent record labels are pushing back on Apple's plans to pay more for spatial audio tracks, saying it benefits larger record companies — Groups behind Adele and Phoebe Bridgers among those against songs recorded in higher-quality audio receiving more money| 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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| Reuters: |
Byju's US unit Alpha files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, listing liabilities between $1B and $10B and assets between $500M and $1B — A U.S. unit of Indian education technology startup Byju's has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. court of Delaware …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
| 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 …
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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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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenSecrets: 450 orgs, including OpenAI and Tesla, reported participating in AI-related lobbying in 2023, up 185% YoY, spending $957M+ on AI and other issues — - AI-related lobbying reached new heights in 2023, with more than 450 organizations participating in the practice …
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