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Apple refreshes the web version of the App Store, letting users view and search for apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro — Apple has launched a dramatic new web interface for the App Store. You can now get the full App Store experience right in your browser …
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, adding a “tinted” option for its Liquid Glass design that reduces transparency and increases contrast — Today, Apple released version 26.1 of its full family of OSes. Every platform received attention, including the proverbial …
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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware — The alleged cybersecurity turncoats attacked at least five U.S. companies while working for their respective employers, officials said.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est., and expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M — Nintendo raised its forecast for sales of the Switch 2 console in its current fiscal year as momentum for its new flagship console grows.| Financial Times: |
Sources: China offers to cut data center power bills by up to 50% to Alibaba and others, if they use local chips like Huawei's over foreign ones like Nvidia's — Beijing introduces grants that slash power bills by up to half for some of the country's largest data centres
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| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others — Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
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| Ryan S. Gladwin / Decrypt: |
DeFi protocol Balancer says its V2 Composable Stable Pools suffered an exploit, which security experts estimate resulted in total losses worth about $128M — Some $128 million in crypto was stolen from Balancer liquidity pools on Ethereum and beyond, with Berachain halting its chain as a result.| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads — ‘Holidays Are Coming’ faster and cheaper for the soda giant, which caught heat last year for its AI-generated ads
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling “extremely limited in scope” — Getty Images largely lost its landmark lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI over its image generator at London's High Court on Tuesday.| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to €4.3B, above €4.23B est., subscribers up 12% YoY to 281M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 713M, and a €582M operating income — Spotify Technology SA reported active users and revenue in the third quarter that surpassed analysts' expectations … | Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $2.84B, vs. $2.76B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $92B, and expects Q4 revenue up in the mid-to-high 20% range, vs. 23.4% est. — Shopify (SHOP.TO), projected strong fourth-quarter revenue growth on Tuesday, signaling resilient demand at the e-commerce company … | Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $13.5B, Gross Bookings up 21% YoY to $49.7B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.5B, and a $1.1B operating profit, below $1.6B est. — Ride-hailing company reassures investors that it enters busy festive period with ‘exceptional momentum’
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| David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for 72% of all US data center capacity as of July; places like Umatilla have been transformed by an AWS build-out — Residents, politicians and local agencies are making the most of the tech boom, but prosperity comes with costs; 'What's going to happen once they stop building?'
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| Sofia Horta e Costa / Bloomberg: |
How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-dependent economy to a tech and industrial hub — Investment around the town of Sines totals almost 5% of GDP as the country seeks to retool its economy for the 21st century.| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Chainalysis CEO Jonathan Levin says DeFi platforms' rapid growth leaves their users' assets at risk of attack; DefiLlama says $140B+ is held on DeFi protocols — Head of world's biggest crypto tracing company says security 'hasn't really been considered' by start-ups
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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