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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft outlines security principles and goals tied to executive compensation packages, following a scathing US Cyber Safety Review Board report in April 2024  —  - Protect identities and secrets. … - Protect tenants and isolate production systems. … - Protect networks.
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 Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units and that Apple's focus is on getting more apps and more enterprises engaged
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%
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 reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, up 14% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $23.12B estimated, an all-time record
Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:
Germany “unambiguously” finds that Russian state-backed hacker Fancy Bear was behind cyberattacks in 2023 that took down several German government websites  —  Investigation finds hacker group linked to Russian intelligence responsible for attacks targeting politicians and defence sector
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's May 7 event: OLED iPad Pros possibly with M4 chips, 10.9" and 12.9" iPad Airs, and updates to the Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard  —  Company gears up to update its tablets for the first time since 2022  —  It's been more than 18 months since Apple Inc. last updated …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Filing: Google pushes back on Epic's demands after its antitrust win, saying the proposed remedies are “unnecessary” and “far beyond the scope” of the verdict  —  In a new filing, Google is pushing back against Fortnite maker Epic Games' numerous proposed remedies …
Lindsay Clark / The Register:
A committee of UK legislators says the government's “reticence” to address alleged copyright theft is a “de facto endorsement” of how tech companies build LLMs  —  A committee of UK legislators has slammed the government for its response to alleged copyright theft as a …
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft's operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft's relationship with Sam Altman, and more  —  Insiders say he's still pulling the strings at Microsoft  —  In 2017, just before Microsoft forged a partnership …
Sudz Niel Kar / MyHealthyApple:
The US FDA approves Apple Watch's AFib history feature for clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under the 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).
Reuters:
Sources: Fei-Fei Li raised a seed round for a “spatial intelligence” startup using human-like visual data processing to create AI capable of advanced reasoning  —  Prominent computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is building a startup that uses human-like processing of visual data …
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 …
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Block reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $5.96B, vs. $5.82B est., gross profit up 22% to $2.09B, Square profit up 19%, and Cash App profit up 25%  —  Block Inc logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, April 10, 2023.  —  Block reported first-quarter earnings after the bell that exceeded analysts' estimates.
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
Block plans to invest 10% of its gross profit from bitcoin products each month into buying bitcoin; Block's $220M BTC investment grew by ~160% to $573M as of Q1
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

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New York Times:
Memos: Will Lewis has stepped down as WaPo publisher and CEO; former Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio, who joined WaPo last June as CFO, is acting publisher and CEO

C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees

Hadas Gold / CNN:
Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads criticizing ads in chatbots, prompting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defending plans for ads in ChatGPT

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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”
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
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
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
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
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