Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row | TechCrunch

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Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another quarterly revenue record on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.

Microsoft has now reported record-breaking revenue for 10 quarters in a row.

This is profitable revenue, too. Microsoft reported that net income reached $36.6 billion, an increase of 32% on a GAAP basis, over the year-ago quarter.

The record-breaking income was largely driven on the strength of Microsoft Cloud, which reached $63.9 billion in revenue this quarter, an increase of 30% over the year-ago quarter, Microsoft said.

Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme | TechCrunch

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Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme

Apple has officially entered the touchscreen MacBook Pro era, and apparently, it wants to drain your wallet while it’s at it.

The new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899, which is already a hefty price tag in this economy. But if you want the absolute top-of-the-line model with every possible upgrade, prepare to cough up around $14,549.

What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad | WIRED

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PARIS MARX’S NEW book couldn’t have landed at a better time. The longtime critic of Big Tech and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast has been thinking about data centers for years, and Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires comes out right as opposition hits a fever pitch.

“I certainly didn’t predict that it was all going to kind of come to a head as my book was coming out,” he says with a laugh.

Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents | WIRED

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AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.

The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace.

How Low-Priced Services Can Cost You More in the Long Run | Entrepreneur

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We all crave a bargain, especially entrepreneurs chasing the best deals on goods and services. In a perfect world, we would always land a low price and top-notch results. True harmony happens when value and price align. But too often, that rock-bottom price balloons when someone has to step in and fix or redo a purchase that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.

I’ll admit that I’m drawn to a low price. Yet, after more than twenty years in business, I’ve learned to be cautious of work that’s simply cheap. While I love a good deal as much as anyone, the rates I offer my transcription clients aren’t the lowest, but what I consider an exceptional value.

Hardly a week passes without our team being asked to rescue a botched transcription from a competitor. We appreciate the business, of course, but I can’t help but wonder why clients leap at the lowest rate without weighing the quality of service.

Replacing a Founder? Here’s How to Get It Right. | Entrepreneur

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From the outside, taking over from a founder can look like the ideal leadership opportunity. The company already exists, the product is in the market, revenue is coming in, and the team is built. Compared with starting from nothing, stepping into that environment can feel like inheriting momentum.

That impression usually fades once you are inside.

Founders leave deep impressions. Over time, companies begin reflecting their instincts, communication style, and decision-making patterns. Employees learn what matters by observing what the founder rewards, ignores, accelerates, or delays. Even when none of it is written down, everybody inside the company understands how the system operates.

Proton Flock camera map: Find surveillance devices near you | Mashable

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You probably know where the coffee shops and gas stations are in your neighborhood. But the cameras logging your license plate as you drive past? Those can be a little harder to keep track of.

Proton, the Swiss privacy company behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN, is helping make them easier to find by hosting a free map of Flock surveillance devices on its servers (you can explore the map on Proton’s website). Flock tried to get the researcher behind the original project to take it down, according to The Intercept.

iPhone Duo problems: Shoddy-looking apps, hinge, FaceTime camera | Mashable

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Apple’s iPhone Duo is currently in that strange limbo where it’s been announced, it’s available to pre-order, but it’s not widely available yet.

In this period, every issue and bug gets amplified, especially when the device is so different from anything Apple has done before. We’ve seen people declaring they would never buy this phone, as well as lists of reasons why that’s a good decision.

Having had the iPhone Duo in my hands for a little over a week now (not counting my time with a bunch of Duos at Apple’s September event in Cupertino), I got to experience the good and the bad firsthand. And, since I switched to the Duo as my primary phone, I can tell you that I haven’t yet encountered anything that would make me go back to a different iPhone.

Websites shut down globally after AI finds cybersecurity flaw affecting 70% of the internet | CNN Business

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Governments and companies around the world are racing to fix vulnerabilities revealed by artificial intelligence that could affect 70% of the world’s websites.

Some websites and services briefly went dark after the set of vulnerabilities were announced Wednesday.

The US National Security Agency and Europe’s cybersecurity agency advised companies to take immediate action to address two critical flaws in PHP, a programming language that powers 70% of the world’s websites.