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Amazon reports Q1 AWS revenue up 17% YoY to $29.3B, vs. $29.42B est., and AWS operating income up 23% YoY to $11.55B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q1 AWS revenue up 17% YoY to $29.3B, vs. $29.42B est., and AWS operating income up 23% YoY to $11.55B — Amazon reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter, driven by growth in its cloud computing and advertising businesses, but it gave soft guidance for the current period.
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $155.67B, vs. $155.04B est., operating income up 20% YoY to $18.4B, and forecasts Q2 operating income below estimates (Amazon.com, Inc.)

Amazon.com, Inc.:
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $155.67B, vs. $155.04B est., operating income up 20% YoY to $18.4B, and forecasts Q2 operating income below estimates — - Net sales increased 9% to $155.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $143.3 billion in first quarter 2024.
Anker’s lightest 45W USB-C charger is already on sale for 26 percent off
If you need a svelte USB-C charger that won’t weigh you down on your commute or your next flight, Anker’s new 45W Nano charger is on sale for the first time at Amazon, where you can pick it up in either black or white as part of a lightning deal for $25.99 ($9 off). At […]
Swift Proposal: weak let
SE 0481: Currently, Swift classes with weak stored properties cannot be Sendable, because weak properties have to be mutable, and mutable properties are not allowed in Sendable classes[…][…]In fact, wrapping weak references in a single-property struct is a viable workaround to the var restriction in both properties and captures[…] The existence of this simple workaround […]
Court Orders Apple to Comply With Anti-Steering Injunction
Juli Clover (Hacker News, Jay Peters, Zac Hall): In a victory for Epic Games, Apple was today found to be in violation of a 2021 injunction that required it to allow developers to direct customers to third-party purchase options on the web using in-app links. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Apple’s response to the Injunction strains credulity. […]