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| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook appeared at the company's flagship Fifth Avenue store in NYC for the launch — - Apple's Vision Pro virtual reality headset is now on sale at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the online U.S. Apple Store.
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| Apple: |
Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas net sales up 2% to $50.4B, and Europe net 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 …
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features and the company plans to detail its ongoing work “later this year” — Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Meta's stock rises 20%+, adding ~$200B to its market cap, the biggest single-session market value addition, eclipsing Apple's and Amazon's $190B gains in 2022 — - Stock also holds record for the biggest wipeout in history — Shares surge after big earnings beat, buyback, dividend plans
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future” — Google officially removed the cache link from the Google Search results snippets last week and Google confirmed that it will remove …
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| James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in January, the US DOJ charged three people over a phone-hacking scheme that included the FTX hack to steal $400M+ during the exchange's 2022 collapse — The hack coincided with the crypto exchange's meltdown more than a year ago — Federal investigators appear to have cracked …
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| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who was convicted for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on February 1 for espionage and more — A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency's history was sentenced … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
How the EFF, Techdirt, MuckRock, and DDoSecrets are pushing back against legal threats aiming to censor reports on Appin's alleged hacker-for-hire past — A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight the legal threats aimed at making reports of one Indian company's hacker-for-hire past disappear.| 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 suspected ‘nation state attacker’ who accessed …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with Perplexity and the $20-per-month Perplexity Pro tier, which show that AI-powered search engines could loosen Google's grip on the search market — A start-up called Perplexity shows what's possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Filing: Amazon spending on content rose 14% YoY to $18.9B in 2023 despite Hollywood strikes — While other media companies have been paring back content spending, Amazon shelled out more than $2 billion more in 2023 for TV shows, movies and music than it did a year earlier.| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
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| Patricia Hernandez / The Guardian: |
A profile of Gary Bowser, a 54-year-old programmer who was sentenced in 2022 for 40 months in prison for pirating games and ordered to pay $14.5M to Nintendo — The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy software ended in a jail sentence has emerged from prison struggling to make rent as he starts paying his fine.| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: some independent record labels are pushing back on Apple's plans to pay more for spatial audio tracks, saying it benefits larger record companies — Groups behind Adele and Phoebe Bridgers among those against songs recorded in higher-quality audio receiving more money| Reuters: |
Byju's US unit Alpha files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, listing liabilities between $1B and $10B and assets between $500M and $1B — A U.S. unit of Indian education technology startup Byju's has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. court of Delaware …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill awaits formal approval of EU Parliament — The bloc's law to regulate AI overcomes threats of late opposition. — Free article usually reserved for subscribers| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel delays the construction of its $20B Ohio chip fabs amid a slow rollout of US government grant money; sources: the fabs are now set to finish in late 2026 — Construction on two factories now slated to be finished in late 2026 as company also waits for government incentives
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