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Apple beats sales and profit forecasts as iPhone sales grow

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Apple reported record revenue for a September quarter on Monday, driven by iPhone sales and services. iPhone and Mac sales beat estimates under CEO John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook in September.

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Australia's top court hears a challenge to its social media ban for under-16s

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Two days of hearings began Tuesday in the High Court of Australia. Reddit and the Digital Freedom Project, an advocacy group led by New South Wales politician John Ruddick, are challenging the ban.

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Germany warns lawmakers their iPhones may have been hacked with spyware

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Germany's federal cybersecurity office, the BSI, says members of the Bundestag and other notable people received Apple warnings that they may have been targeted. Government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said Berlin is taking the warning very seriously.

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Anthropic warns AI may soon sharply speed up its own development

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In a revised IPO filing on Monday, Anthropic said it may imminently meet its own definition of dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI. It said none of its current models has crossed that threshold.

Meta delays new business terms after an outcry over news scraping

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The terms, first due Oct 30, would let Meta use web scrapers and bots to collect content from sites linked to business accounts, without payment. Critics say it could use that content to build AI services that compete with publishers.

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Flock cameras stay up after Minnesota cities cancel contracts

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Plymouth, Minnesota's city council voted in September to end its contract with Flock Safety. The cameras stayed up for over a month with no acknowledgment, so the police chief had staff disconnect their power cords.

Binance restarts withdrawals in stages after its US$6.3 billion hack

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Binance says it has replaced about 95 per cent of the affected assets. "Binance will absorb the financial impact of the stolen funds, not our users," the company said.

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AI agent injects a gene therapy into a live mouse's brain in lab experiment

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A San Francisco startup, Exin Therapeutics, connected an AI agent to a robotic surgical rig and had it inject a therapy into the brain of a live mouse with epilepsy. A veterinary surgeon first performed the craniotomy.