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Apple reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $85.8B, net income up 8% to $21.4B, Americas net sales up 6% to $37.7B, and Europe net sales up 8% to $21.9B — June quarter records for Revenue and EPS Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
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Intel plans to cut 15%+ of its workforce, the majority by the end of 2024, as part of a $10B cost reduction plan and to suspend its dividend starting in Q4 2024 — Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad cost-reduction program.
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| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Run:ai, a Tel Aviv-based startup that enables virtualization of GPUs, on antitrust grounds — The investigation adds to the global pressure by regulators to prevent control of artificial intelligence by just a handful of the world's largest technology companies.
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| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple in recent months has demanded Tencent and ByteDance close loopholes used by their in-app creators to funnel users to external payment systems — - iPhone maker wants to close loopholes in mini-games payments — Handling in-app purchases is a lucrative business for Apple
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| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $148B, a $13.5B net income, vs. $6.7B YoY, $14.7B operating income, vs. $7.7B YoY, subscription sales up 10% to $10.9B — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2024.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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Stability AI announces Stable Fast 3D, a generative AI model for rapid 3D asset generation, says it can generate a 3D asset from a single image in 0.5 seconds — Not all that long ago, it used to be hard, really hard to generate 3D images. It was a process that involved complex wireframes, complicated software and beefy hardware.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel extends the warranty for its boxed Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors by an additional two years, due to customers experiencing instability issues — Trying to build goodwill. — Intel told us today that it will extend the warranty on its boxed Intel Core 13th- and 14th-Gen processors by two additional years.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Infoblox and Eclypsium: since 2018, Russian hackers hijacked 35K+ registered domains using Sitting Ducks attacks that involve exploiting DNS configuration flaws — Threat actors have hijacked more than 35,000 registered domains in so-called Sitting Ducks attacks that allow claiming … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 46.5% YoY to ~$1.65B, vs. ~$1.92B exp., net profit down 55.3% YoY to ~$536M, and Switch sales down 46% YoY to 2.1M units — Nintendo on Friday reported revenue and profit that plunged in the company's fiscal first quarter, as sales of the ageing Switch console decline.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The UK's NCA shuts down Russian Coms, a caller ID spoofing platform used by hundreds of criminals to make 1.8M+ scam calls in 107 countries since 2021 — The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down Russian Coms, a major caller ID spoofing platform used by hundreds of criminals to make over 1.8 million scam calls.| Bill Donahue / Billboard: |
Court filings: AI startups Suno and Udio respond to copyright lawsuits from major music labels, saying their use of proprietary music to train AI is fair use — In their first responses to the sweeping copyright lawsuits that could define AI music, lawyers for Suno and Udio don't exactly hold back.
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| Tuvan Gumrukcu / Reuters: |
Turkey blocks Instagram without stating a reason or the duration; a Turkish official claimed Instagram blocked condolence posts on Ismail Haniyeh's killing — Turkey has blocked access to social media platform Instagram, the infotech regulator said on Friday, without stating a reason …
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Forums: r/europe and r/istanbul
| Kristen V Brown / Bloomberg: |
A special committee of 23andMe's board says it's not “prepared to move forward” with CEO Anne Wojcicki's $0.40 per share offer to take the company private — A special committee of 23andMe's board said it's not “prepared to move forward” with Chief Executive Officer Anne Wojcicki's offer … | The Canadian Press: |
Study: a year after Meta blocked news content in Canada due to the Online News Act, Canadians' total engagement with news content on social media is down 43% — Canadian news struggling after Meta ban: study — MONTREAL - A new study is painting a grim portrait of how local Canadian news outlets … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
A profile of, and interview with, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner, who is building a reputation in Washington, DC, as a trusted expert on AI — Helen Toner is building a reputation in the nation's capital as a trusted expert on artificial intelligence.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
On Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said Llama 4 will need almost 10x more compute to train than Llama 3.1, Quest 3 sales exceeded expectations, and more — Meta's second quarter earnings continue the same story from the previous quarter: generative AI may be here, but it's going to take a long time to make money.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
In its annual report, Microsoft adds OpenAI as a competitor in AI offerings and search and news advertising; OpenAI unveiled its prototype SearchGPT last week — Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has officially become more complicated. — On Tuesday, Microsoft added …
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| Bill Peters / MarketWatch: |
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue up 105% YoY to $1.45B, vs. $1.39B est., a $36.2M net income, and forecasts subscription and services Q3 revenue below expectations — Stock is still up this year, as investors digest the prospect of easing regulations — Coinbase Global Inc. on Thursday reported … Sponsor Posts
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