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LinkedIn's Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY, topping $5B for the first time, giving LinkedIn an annual run rate of $20B+; Satya Nadella said paid video ads grew 30% YoY (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200%+ to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price surge and HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

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Google says it took legal action to take down dozens of domains and disrupt the residential proxy network of Chinese company Ipidea, widely used by bad actors (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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SK Hynix announces a new US-based "AI Company" from a restructuring of its California-based subsidiary Solidigm, and commits at least $10B to the new entity (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

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In Meta's Q4 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg says it plans to start shipping new models and products throughout 2026 and hints at "agentic shopping tools" (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Satya Nadella says Windows 11 reached 1B users during Q2, growing over 45% YoY and at a faster rate than Windows 10 did (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of the iPhone camera app Halide who previously freelanced for Apple, says he has joined Apple's Human Interface Design team (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App

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Halide co-founder Sebastiaan de With is joining Apple’s design team

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'Movie Night' quest walkthrough in Arc Raiders

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All important choices in Dispatch Episode 8 ('Synergy')

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All important choices in Dispatch Episode 5 ('Team Building')

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All important choices in Dispatch Episode 1 ('Pivot')

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All important choices in Dispatch

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Sources: OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are real people (Anna Tong/Forbes)

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Brandon Sanderson signs 'unprecedented' deal to adapt his Cosmere novels

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Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media

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Windows 11 has reached 1 billion users faster than Windows 10

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Sources: the White House will meet with banks and crypto firms on Monday to discuss a path forward for crypto legislation stalled by a clash between the sectors (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

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Aeronaut 1.0

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