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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 46.5% YoY to ~$1.65B, vs. ~$1.92B est., 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.
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.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
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.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $12.8B, vs. $12.9B estimated, Data Center and AI down 3% YoY to $3B, and gives light Q3 guidance; INTC drops 25%+
New York Times:
The US DOJ sues TikTok, saying it collected children's data without parents' permission, knowingly let users under the age of 13 create accounts, and more  —  The Justice Department said that TikTok illegally collected children's data and knowingly allowed users under the age of 13 to create accounts.
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
Asa Hiken / Ad Age:
Google pulled an Olympics TV ad where a father uses Gemini to help his daughter write a personal letter to an athlete, after criticisms that the ad is tone-deaf  —  ‘Dear Sydney’ had been criticized for appearing tone-deaf to AI concerns  —  Google has pulled an ad from its Olympics' TV rotation …
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
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.
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 …
Apple Inc.:
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 …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q3 revenue: iPhone down 1% YoY to $39.30B, Mac up 2% YoY to $7.01B, iPad up 24% YoY to $7.16B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 2% YoY to $8.10B
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.
Tuvan Gumrukcu / Reuters:
Turkey blocks Instagram for failing to comply with “laws and rules”; a Turkish official said Instagram blocked condolence posts about Ismail Haniyeh's killing  —  Turkey has blocked access to social media platform Instagram, the infotech regulator said on Friday …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
A look at Musk-backed America PAC's “Register to Vote” online campaign, which collects users' personal data in swing states, but does not help them register  —  If a voter in Michigan performs a search on Google, a somewhat shocking ad might pop up.
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
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $26.28B, vs. $26.02B est., and AWS operating income of $9.33B, vs. $8.51B est., up from $5.37B in Q2 2023
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 …
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
UK shelves promised £800M for Edinburgh University exascale supercomputer and £500M for AI Research Resource, saying former government never allocated the funds  —  The new Labour government has shelved £1.3bn of funding promised by the Conservatives for tech and Artificial Intelligence …

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Wall Street Journal:
CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King signed a new deal, providing some stability at CBS News; source: King's current contract is worth ~$15M and runs through May

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Bill Donahue / Billboard:
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
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Bill Peters / MarketWatch:
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