Apple reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to $89.5B, vs. $89.3B est., net income up 11% to $23B, Americas sales up 1% to $40.1B, and Europe sales down 1% to $22.5B
iPhone revenue sets September quarter record Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty …
Apple expects its revenue in the holiday quarter, normally the company's biggest sales period, to stay the same as last year; Wall Street projected ~5% growth
It me. This first generation product may just never launch here in Ireland 🫤 — https://www.macrumors.com/... X: Fred Hickey / @htsfhickey : Apple Conf. call update. Guidance weak. Cook sounds dejec...
Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 3% YoY to $43.81B, Mac down 34% to $7.61B, iPad down 10% to $6.44B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 3% to $9.32B
- Apple reported fourth-fiscal quarter earnings on Thursday that beat analyst expectations for sales and earnings per share …
Sources: Microsoft plans to stop giving away Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to most of its 238K staff in January 2024; Phil Spencer was unaware and is looking into it
Microsoft is removing the free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees and some aren't happy about it.
Apple reports Q4 revenue down 2.5% YoY to $15.1B in Greater China, down 3.4% YoY to $5.5B in Japan, and down 0.7% YoY to $6.3B in the rest of Asia-Pacific
Nikkei Asia :
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is unkempt, pedigreed, and awkward, replicated what VCs believe a founder should look like, and the door remains open for others like him
The tech industry is designed for people like Sam Bankman-Fried. — Over and over during Sam Bankman-Fried's trial …
The FTC says Jeff Bezos ordered Amazon executives to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to early 2022
- FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’
Google's Chrome team stops considering a Web Integrity API proposal that aimed to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, after DRM comparisons
Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. While prototyped, it was only at the proposal stage …
Apple's Q4 revenue for its Services segment, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, rose 16% YoY to a record $22.31B vs. $21.35B expected
Reminder that Apple jacked up the prices of their services by 30-40% for the next quarter (which won't be in the quarterly earnings until next quarter). There was no reason to do it but greed. https:...
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $674M, vs. $654.7M est., net loss down 99.6% YoY to $2.3M from $545M YoY, and $76B in trading volume, vs. $80.4B est.
Revenue increased 14% to $674 million, compared with a forecast of $654.7 million by analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Ex-Instagram consultant Arturo Béjar, set to testify in Congress on November 7, says Meta did not fully act on its Well-Being Team's findings to protect teens
When a Meta security expert told Mark Zuckerberg that Instagram's approach to protecting teens wasn't working, the CEO didn't reply.
After a security incident at Okta's health care coverage provider Rightway, Okta warns nearly 5K employees that hackers may have accessed their personal info
Customer support last month, the third party vendor last year, now this. LinkedIn: Chris Clark / Chris Clark, CISSP 🇺🇦 : How far does the rabbit hole go with this Okta thing? It seems every week it's...
DC's AG sues RealPage and 14 of Washington DC's largest landlord firms for using RealPage's rent-setting software to allegedly collude on rent price increases
Suit claims employees were told pricing outside the algorithm was “unacceptable.” — DC's attorney general has sued 14 …
Block reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to $5.62B, vs. $5.4B est., profit up 21% YoY to $1.9B, Square profit up 15% YoY, and Cash App profit up 27% YoY; SQ up 10%+
‘Really what we expect to see next year is meaningful margin expansion,’ CFO says — Block Inc. reported better …
Okta says hackers who breached its support system in October accessed the files of 134 customers, five of whom were later targeted in session hijacking attacks
Okta says attackers who breached its customer support system last month gained access to files belonging to 134 customers …
Ad blockers have seen record uninstalls after YouTube expanded its crackdown on ad blockers, while those unaffected by the clampdown saw record installs
YouTube expanded a “test” that threatens to cut off users who don't turn off their ad blocker. Developers of the tools are scrambling to respond.
A look at Russia-based SWAT USA Drop Service, whose 1,200+ US employees knowingly or unwittingly reship consumer goods purchased online with stolen credit cards
One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. LinkedIn: Jennifer Yarbrough , Dr...
The UK CMA says Meta pledged to let Facebook Marketplace users opt out of Meta using their data and limit how the company uses ad data for product development
Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal :
The FTC's lawsuit reveals that Amazon made $1.4B via Project Nessie, an algorithmic scheme that raised product prices and held them there if rivals followed
Elon Musk says Starlink is cash-flow breakeven; in 2021, Musk said SpaceX would spin off and take Starlink public once its cash flow was reasonably predictable
and accounts for a ‘majority’ of active satellites Vahid Karaahmetovic / Finbold : Elon Musk's Starlink achieves break-even cash flow; IPO soon? Aakanksha Chaturvedi / Business Today : Elon Musk's Sta...
Amazon settles the UK CMA's probe into its use of third-party data, agreeing not to use “non-public” third-party seller data to benefit Amazon Retail, and more
The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced that it has accepted proposals from Facebook's parent Meta …
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr release Now and Then, the first “new” Beatles song since 1995, created using AI and an old lo-fi John Lennon recording
with help from AI James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Beatles get back together for one last song with the help of artificial intelligence Maria Sherman / Associated Press : Listen to the last new Beatles'...
Elon Musk says that xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on November 4 and “in some important respects, it is the best that currently exists”
Here's What To Know About xAI Beatrice Nolan / Insider : Elon Musk says xAI is ready to release its first AI model to a ‘select group’ Amy Thomson / Bloomberg : Musk Says Mysterious xAI Product to Be ...
Google ends a deal with Lendlease to build 15,000 homes in the Bay Area, after announcing in 2019 that it would help build houses on land it owns worth $750M
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
As EU was preparing to designate Apple as a gatekeeper under the DMA, Apple has argued that it has three separate browsers: Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn't buy it — Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim …
Microsoft announces the Secure Future Initiative, which includes responding faster to vulnerabilities and using AI and automation to improve software security
Named the Secure Future Initiative, the commitment comes after hackers have been constantly exploiting many of its products for attacks on government and private sector entities. … X: Brad Smith / @br...
Beijing warms to Micron, saying the US company is welcome to deepen its footprint in China, after banning Micron equipment in key infrastructure in May 2023
China's commerce minister told Micron Technology Inc's (MU.O) president Beijing would welcome the U.S. semiconductor company deepening …
Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $335.6M, vs. $330.5M est., net loss up 45% YoY to $23.5M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates
Meta, OpenAI, and others sign a non-binding document to let the US, the UK, and other nations test AI models for national security risks prior to their release
Financial Times :
Cloudflare restores most of its services after data center power outages due to generator failures impacted “all services that rely on our API infrastructure”
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Amazon closes its two Style physical clothing stores, after opening the first in May 2022 and closing most of its physical stores, including bookstores, in 2022
The two stores, near LA and in Columbus, Ohio, are closing soon, about 17 months after the first one opened. … Steve Dennis : Amazon Style stores to be shuttered. Physical retail isn't dead. Boring,...
Arm acquires a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, extending the two companies' partnership that began in 2008 and has resulted in ARM CPUs in all Raspberry Pi SoCs
Google AdSense will soon move from paying per click to paying per impression and split the revenue share into separate rates for the buy-side and sell-side
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Brave releases its AI assistant Leo to all desktop users and unveils Leo Premium, offering access to faster and better LLMs and higher rate limits for $15/month
Brave's AI browser assistant that preserves users' privacy—is now available to desktop users Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatb...
US v. Google: Apple's Eddy Cue sent Tim Cook a presentation in 2013 that declared “Android is a massive tracking device” and detailed Google's privacy practices
Here is the latest slides we have on privacy. Still a lot more work to do but good start. Tom Warren / The Verge : ‘Android is a massive tracking device.’ Ernestas Naprys / Cybernews.com : Apple call...
Meta announces new creator tools, including a Reels A/B testing mobile tool for testing different thumbnails and captions for a Reel to see which performs best
Mia Sato / The Verge :
Apple's M3 series shows a return to core messaging themes around user human usability; producing three M3 chips likely has to be close to $1B in tape-out costs
A New Jersey high school and police investigate after male students shared AI-generated nudes of female students in group chats; parents are unsure what to do
https://www.publico.es/... X: Ann-Marie Alcántara / @itstheannmarie : crazy story from @juliejargon: students at a NJ high school used AI to create fake, nude images of their classmates. “We're aware ...
Court records show FTX advisers gave trading data and customer details to the FBI in recent months in response to subpoenas from at least five FBI field offices
Wow, you know you've done screwed up when FIVE field offices come after you LinkedIn: Paula Seligson : The disclosures are a reminder that an oft-touted feature of crypto trading — privacy — isn't gua...
A look at Fusus, which links a town's security cameras into one central hub and analyzes the feeds using AI, as its system is deployed across 2,400 US locations
https://www.404media.co/... “Ordinarily, these cameras and others like them might be disparate, their feeds only available to their respective owners: a business, a government building, a resident an...
Source: TikTok users sent $250M+ worth of digital gifts to US livestreamers in Q3 2023; TikTok takes a 50% cut and is on track to earn $500M in US tips in 2023
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