Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Tim Cook says half of the Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units — During the Apple earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared that half of Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units. — Apple Vision Pro is the first spatial computer from Apple …
Mimic, which helps businesses detect, deflect, and quickly recover from ransomware attacks, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed led by Ballistic Ventures (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)
Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek:
Mimic, which helps businesses detect, deflect, and quickly recover from ransomware attacks, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed led by Ballistic Ventures — A new Silicon Valley startup called Mimic is coming out of the shadows with a hefty $27 million seed-stage funding round led by Ballistic Ventures.
Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida unveils an international voluntary framework for regulation and use of generative AI and says 49 countries and regions have signed up (Associated Press)
Associated Press:
Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida unveils an international voluntary framework for regulation and use of generative AI and says 49 countries and regions have signed up — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI on Thursday …
Onur Aksoy, who pleaded guilty to selling fake Cisco equipment on Amazon and eBay from 2013 to 2022, making over $100M, is sentenced to over six years in prison (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Onur Aksoy, who pleaded guilty to selling fake Cisco equipment on Amazon and eBay from 2013 to 2022, making over $100M, is sentenced to over six years in prison — Some of the networking equipment sold by 40-year-old Onur Aksoy ‘ended up in US hospitals, schools, and highly sensitive military …
Microsoft adds deputy chief information security officers within its product groups after a spate of cyberattacks, but declines to identify the new officials (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Microsoft adds deputy chief information security officers within its product groups after a spate of cyberattacks, but declines to identify the new officials — Ann Johnson named deputy security officer to oversee outreach and communication about company’s security
X tweaks its block feature to let users see replies to their posts even by users who have blocked them, with the aim of identifying and reporting “bad content” (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
X tweaks its block feature to let users see replies to their posts even by users who have blocked them, with the aim of identifying and reporting “bad content” — Blocking will no longer hide your catty replies. — Elon Musk has made no secret that he’s not a fan of the block button.
Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:
Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time — Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite …
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $378.6M, vs. $373.7M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; NET drops 13%+ after hours (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $378.6M, vs. $373.7M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; NET drops 13%+ after hours — The San Francisco-based security company estimated that revenue would total $393.5 million to $394.5 million in the second quarter …
Apple reports Q2 revenue down 8.1% YoY to $16.4B in Greater China, down 12.7% YoY to $6.3B in Japan, and down 17.2% YoY to $6.7B in the rest of Asia-Pacific (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia:
Apple reports Q2 revenue down 8.1% YoY to $16.4B in Greater China, down 12.7% YoY to $6.3B in Japan, and down 17.2% YoY to $6.7B in the rest of Asia-Pacific — Japan and Asia-Pacific leads revenue decline in the January-March quarter — PALO ALTO, California — Apple CEO Tim Cook described China as …
Apple Watch’s AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA’s MDDT program (Sudz Niel Kar/MyHealthyApple)
Sudz Niel Kar / MyHealthyApple:
Apple Watch’s AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA’s MDDT program — The FDA today announced that it has qualified the Apple Watch AFib ( Atrial Fibrillation) history feature as an MDDT (Medical Device Development Tools).
