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| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
Interviews with Tim Cook, Greg Joswiak, James Cameron, Jon Favreau, and others on the Apple Vision Pro, using the device, developing the headset, and more — Inside Apple Park, the tech giant's CEO talks about the genesis of a “mind-blowing” new device that could change the way we live and work.
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Benzinga, Livemint, The Verge, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada Blog, Financial Times, BGR, UploadVR, The Apple Post, MacDailyNews, Wired, Supercharged, and Fast Company
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/gadgets, and MacRumors Forums
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says developers have optimized 600+ apps for the Vision Pro in time for its February 2 launch, including Airmail, Box, MUBI, Night Sky, Parcel, and PCalc — Apple today announced that over 600 apps with native support for visionOS will be available on the Vision Pro when the headset launches in the U.S. this Friday.
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X: @kentbye, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @swiftor, @drbarnard, @munster_gene, @adamlisagor, @_chuckyc, @munster_gene, @lindadong, @levie, @appleinsider, @tim_cook, @emcro, @levie, @greengart, and @hiddevdploeg. LinkedIn: Samantha Garrison. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
More: Unity Blog, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Developer Tech News, O'Grady's PowerPage, iMore, TechRadar, Chronicle-Tribune, Techgenyz, Chronicle-Tribune, Best Stocks, UploadVR, Game Developer, and The Verge
X: @lukemiani, @sadlyitsbradley, @tina__nigro, @danmillerdev, and @jetscott
LinkedIn: Matt Fuad and William McDonald
| Apple: |
Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas sales up 2% to $50.4B, Europe sales up 10% to $30.4B — Services revenue reaches new all-time record EPS up 16 percent to new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 first quarter ended December 30, 2023.
More: Axios, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, The Apple Post, MacStories, Supercharged, BGR, Invezz, and Quartz
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
| Meta: |
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $40.1B, net income up 201% YoY to $14B, and family daily active people up 8% YoY to 3.19B for December 2023; META up 11%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.
More: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, The Motley Fool Australia, and Shacknews
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Meta says it will pay a 50 cent dividend for the first time, and has authorized a $50B share buyback
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
| Amazon: |
Amazon Q4: revenue up 14% YoY to $170B, net income of $10.6B vs. $0.3B YoY, operating income of $13.2B, and subscription revenue up 14% to $10.5B; AMZN up 5%+ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023. Fourth Quarter 2023
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
More: Variety, Deadline, Constellation Research, and The Hollywood Reporter
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts ImageFX, an AI image generator underpinned by Imagen 2, with “expressive chips”, or keyword suggestions, and brings Imagen 2 to Vertex AI and Bard — Taylor Swift deepfakes be damned, Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, TextFX, for image creation.| James Hunt / The Block: |
The US EIA plans to begin surveying crypto miners' electricity use next week; the EIA justified the emergency data collection by citing BTC's 50% price increase — - The Energy Information Administration will begin surveying the electricity use of U.S. crypto miners next week …
More: U.S. Energy Information …, CNET, Bloomberg, The Verge, TFTC, CoinDesk, Blockworks, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, and Cryptopolitan
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA orders US federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure VPN appliances vulnerable to actively exploited bugs before February 3 — CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to disconnect all Ivanti Connect Secure or Policy Secure VPN appliances vulnerable …
More: Cybersecurity …, The Record, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, SecurityWeek, SC Media, CRN, Nextgov/FCW, and TechRadar
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google plans to roll out a Google Maps feature that uses LLMs to analyze its data on 250M+ places and community insights to recommend places, starting in the US — Google is bringing generative AI to — where else? — Google Maps, promising to help users find cool places through the use of large language models (LLM).| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The US CPSC says Snap will recall all its Pixy selfie camera drones because their batteries pose a fire hazard; Snap sold fewer than 71K drones in four months — Snap gave up on its Pixy flying selfie camera drone after just four months, but it turns out the company sold 71,000 drones …
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Mastodon: @danilo@hachyderm.io. Bluesky: @rlux.nyc. X: @carnage4life. LinkedIn: Rafael Brown. Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare says it was hacked in November 2023 by a suspected “nation state attacker” who used auth tokens stolen in Okta's breach from October 2023 — Cloudflare disclosed today that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a ‘nation state’ attacker who accessed its Confluence wiki … | Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
YouTube says YouTube Premium and Music have a combined 100M subscribers; CEO Neal Mohan says subscriptions have become a “meaningful part” of YouTube's business — YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told Forbes the subscription services are now a “meaningful part” of the business.
More: YouTube Official Blog, Variety, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Android Central, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, TechSpot, Neowin, and Music Ally. LinkedIn: Will Aldrich
| Dexter Thomas / Wired: |
Q&A with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on the company's music festival in Arizona, his background, TikTok and music, US scrutiny, music labels, moderation, and more — A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he's trying to make TikTok better.
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
More: The Verge, ZDNet, BBC, Fox News, Reuters, Associated Press, Vogue, CNBC, iMore, HipHopDX, Deseret News, MobileSyrup, TheCable Lifestyle, Tubefilter, New York Times, RTÉ, New York Daily News, NPR, NBC News, Koreaboo, The Independent, Dexerto, Greensburg Tribune-Review, Trending, PINKVILLA, Dazed, Insider Intelligence, UPROXX, The A.V. Club, STV News, Universal Music pulls songs …, Futurism, Variety, Vulture, Yahoo News, Life, New York Times, and Rolling Stone
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant trained on its product catalog and information from around the web, in beta for some US customers — Amazon announced today the launch of an AI-powered shopping assistant it's calling Rufus that's been trained on the e-commerce giant's product catalog …
More: About Amazon, New York Times, The Verge, GeekWire, Bloomberg, Engadget, Tech Xplore, CNBC, and Chain Store Age
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases visionOS 1.0.2, fixing a WebKit vulnerability that, if exploited, allowed malicious code execution; Apple included a patch in iOS 17.3 last week — A day after reporters published their first hands-on review of Apple's Vision Pro, the technology giant released its first security patch …
More: PCMag, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, MacSecurity.net, Macworld, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacRumors, Global Village Space, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, BGR, and 9to5Mac
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Pocket Pair's Palworld, still technically in early access, is the biggest third-party Xbox Game Pass launch in history, reaching 7M players — Surprise viral gaming hit Palworld continues to reach new player milestones. Today, developer Pocketpair announced that the game …
More: Xbox Wire, Forbes, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Engadget, MobileSyrup, PC Gamer, TrueAchievements, TechRadar, Destructoid, WhatIfGaming, HotHardware, Windows Blog, Press Start, Game Rant, Dexerto, Pure Xbox, Wccftech, Neowin, TweakTown, TrueAchievements, Video Games Chronicle, Kotaku, Polygon, Game World Observer, Club386, TweakTown, T3, Windows Central, Game File, IGN, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Twinfinite, GamingBolt, Dot Esports, IGN, Game Rant, Game Developer, and Thurrott
Forums: r/XboxSeriesX, r/Games, r/xboxone, r/Palworld, and r/XboxGamePass
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google's fix for a Pixel phone storage bug, the second one in the past four months, is a very technical manual process requiring access to developer tools — Automatic updates broke your phone; the fix is a highly technical manual process. — Google has another fix for the second major …
More: nextpit, Sammy Fans, and TechRadar
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Memo: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says the company plans to lay off 400 employees, or ~7% of its staff, as the “reality is that costs are still too high” — KEY POINTS — Identity management company Okta said on Thursday in a message to employees that it would lay off 400 employees, about 7% of the company's headcount.| Financial Times: |
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