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May 3, 2024, 1:45 AM
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Apple:
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 …
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.
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Tim Cook says half of the Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units
Nikkei Asia:
Apple reports Q2 revenue down 8.1% YoY to $16.4B in Greater China, down 12.7% YoY to $6.3B in Japan, and down 17.2% YoY to $6.7B in the rest of Asia-Pacific
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple Q2: revenue from Services, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, rose 14% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $23.27B estimated, an all-time record
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 …
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).
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 …
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
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
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:
Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time  —  Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite …
Bloomberg:
Microsoft adds deputy chief information security officers within its product groups after a spate of cyberattacks, but declines to identify the new officials  —  Ann Johnson named deputy security officer to oversee outreach and communication about company's security
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: 🧵
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
X tweaks its block feature to let users see replies to their posts even by users who have blocked them, with the aim of identifying and reporting “bad content”  —  Blocking will no longer hide your catty replies.  —  Elon Musk has made no secret that he's not a fan of the block button.
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 …
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.
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
A look at four Chinese generative AI startups, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai, which have been valued between $1.2B and $2.5B in the past three months  —  Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai are striving to rival the success of US counterparts

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From Mediagazer

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
In the final 60 Minutes segment, Scott Pelley said Paramount “began to supervise our content in new ways” before executive producer Bill Owens' departure

Pew Research Center:
A survey of adults across 35 countries finds a majority in over half of the nations say made-up news and information is “a very big problem” in their country

Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
The WHCD's stripped-down festivities reflected the somber tone in Washington, with White House journalists using the event to celebrate the First Amendment

More News

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
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
More: Fortune and SlashGear
Threads: @joanwestenberg, @jonporteruk, and @rjp_iii
X: @mkbhd and @tina__nigro.  Forums: r/Rabbitr1
Kalley Huang / The Information:
Some developers are releasing versions of Llama 3, which has a context window of 8K+ tokens, with longer context windows, thanks to Meta's open-source approach

Earlier Picks

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
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
Tess Owen / Wired:
Tech Transparency Project: US extremist militias are quietly coordinating across ~200 Facebook groups and profiles, after lying low since the January 6 riot
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
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
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
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