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Loop Downgrade Apple As iPhone Rebound Shipment Hopes Slide Apple shares are down about 1% in premarket trading in New York on renewed concerns about iPhone demand. Loop Capital technology analyst Ananda Baruah downgraded Apple from "Buy" to "Hold," citing slumping expectations that the company will recover lost iPhone shipments next year and warning that skyrocketing memory chip costs could further squeeze profit margins. Baruah lowered his 12-month price target to $330 from $370, nearly in line with Bloomberg-tracked analyst forecasts of around $334. The new target implies roughly 4% downside from the...

Huckabee Top Aide Tried Quashing US Embassy Reports To Protect Israeli Govt: NYT Via Middle East Eye A top aide to US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has repeatedly altered or suppressed embassy reporting that would have been critical of Israeli activities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to a New York Times investigation. David Milstein, 36, has blocked, rewritten or delayed reports to Washington about illegal Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settler violence, and the killings of nine Palestinian Americans, the NYT reported, citing US...

Hacker Copied Records Of Millions Of California Students Through Education Contractor ETS Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The California Department of Education said Friday that a hacker accessed the data of millions of students by exploiting the system of a nonprofit contractor that works with the state. The data included students' names, birth dates, addresses, and disability status. The California Department of Education in Sacramento on April 18, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesEducational Testing Service (ETS) began notifying students and families on Oct. 16 of the breach, which involved...