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Apple reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to $89.5B, vs. $89.3B est., and net income up 11% YoY to $22.9B — iPhone revenue sets September quarter record Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter ended September 30, 2023.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 3% YoY to $43.81B, Mac down 34% to $7.61B, iPad down 10% to $6.44B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 3% to $9.32B — - Apple reported fourth-fiscal quarter earnings on Thursday that beat analyst expectations for sales and earnings per share … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
After major Azure attacks, Microsoft launches the Secure Future Initiative, with plans to use AI and automation to identify vulnerabilities and respond faster — Microsoft has had a rough few years of cybersecurity incidents. It found itself at the center of the SolarWinds attack nearly three years ago …
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI, Google, and others sign a non-binding document to let the US, the UK, and others, but not China, test their latest AI models for national security risks — OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Meta among those who signed legally non-binding document at UK's AI safety summit| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
US v. SBF: in closing statements, the US relied heavily on evidence to argue SBF is guilty and he was “greedy” while SBF's defense managed to make things worse — Mistakes aren't illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried's lawyers never made his defense land.
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| Bloomberg: |
The FTC says Jeff Bezos ordered Amazon executives to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to early 2022 — - FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr release Now and Then, the first “new” Beatles song since 1995, created using AI and an old lo-fi John Lennon recording — Today marks the release of the first “new” song by the Beatles since 1995. “Now and Then” is available on streaming services …
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| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
US v. Google: Apple's Eddy Cue sent Tim Cook a presentation in 2013 that declared “Android is a massive tracking device” and detailed Google's privacy practices — - Apple's internal presentation from 2013 is part of new exhibits posted by the Department of Justice in the ongoing Google antitrust trial.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
YouTube begins restricting how often US teens receive repeated video recommendations about sensitive topics like body image and plans to expand globally in 2024 — Starting November 2nd, YouTube will impose restrictions on how often teens receive repeated video recommendations related …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google AdSense will soon move from paying per click to paying per impression and split the revenue share into separate rates for the buy-side and sell-side — Google today announced two changes to AdSense, but doesn't “expect publishers to see a change in their earnings” and payments.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Brave releases its AI assistant Leo to all desktop users and unveils Leo Premium, offering access to faster and better LLMs and higher rate limits for $15/month — Brave, a company building an alternative web browser, is releasing its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all desktop users.| Reuters: |
Boeing investigates a cyber incident that impacted its parts and distribution business, days after LockBit announced stealing “a tremendous amount” of its data — Boeing (BA.N), one of the world's largest defense and space contractors, said on Wednesday it was investigating … | Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Arm acquires a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, extending the two companies' partnership that began in 2008 and has resulted in ARM CPUs in all Raspberry Pi SoCs — Arm wants a slice of Pi — Arm Holdings plc today announced that it has made a strategic investment, a minority stake in Raspberry Pi Ltd …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
New York AG Letitia James says Uber and Lyft agreed to pay a combined $328M to settle allegations they withheld wages from drivers and did not provide sick pay — - Uber and Lyft agreed to pay a total of $328 million to settle allegations that they unlawfully withheld wages from drivers … | Jay Goldberg / Digits to Dollars: |
Apple's M3 series shows a return to core messaging themes around user human usability; producing three M3 chips likely has to be close to $1B in tape-out costs — Earlier this week Apple unveiled the latest in its line of CPUs - the M3 family. There has been a lot of CPU news in the past weeks …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
After a security incident at Okta's health care coverage provider Rightway, Okta warns nearly 5K employees that hackers may have accessed their personal info — Okta is warning nearly 5,000 employees that the company was impacted by a data breach that exposed personal information.
More: BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, and Cybernews.com
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Chrome team stops considering a Web Integrity API proposal that aimed to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, after DRM comparisons — Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. While prototyped, it was only at the proposal stage …
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
PayPal discloses that the company received an SEC subpoena tied to its US dollar stablecoin, launched in August 2023 — Payments firm PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) said on Thursday it had received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) tied to its U.S. dollar stablecoin.
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Block Q3: revenue up 24% YoY to $5.62B, vs. $5.4B est., gross profit up 21% to $1.9B, Square gross profit up 15%, Cash App gross profit up 27%; SQ jumps 17%+ — ‘Really what we expect to see next year is meaningful margin expansion,’ CFO says — Block Inc. reported better …
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