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Supply chain attack compromises Axios HTTP client with 100 million weekly npm downloads, introducing malicious dependency and deploying multi-stage payload (Socket)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 31, 2026

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Sergey Levine – Creating LLMs for the physical world The leading destination for learning…

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Appfigures: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6% year-over-year to $155.8 billion in 2025, but app downloads fell 2.7% to $106.9 billion (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 15, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: AppNumbers: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6%…

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A look at the rise of AI companion applications; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with more than 220 million downloads in total as of July 2025 (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Review of the year 2025”, with René Ritchie The director’s commentary track…

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A look at Flighty, a flight tracking app that often outperforms airline updates; downloads increased 3x when FAA reduced air traffic during US government shutdown (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 16, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots and why the world’s models are next | Dr.…

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Appfigures: AI Companies Applications are on the right track to generate $ 120 million + income in 2025, and in H1, there were 60 million downloads of this type of application, up 88% in annual sliding (Sarah Perez / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 12, 2025

Sarah Perez / Techcrunch:: Appfigures: AI Companies Applications are on the right track to generate $ 120 million + income…

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Sarvam Ai's 24b-Parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on the face of the embrace, which raises concerns concerning the efforts of the AI in India (Mohit Pandy / Analytics India Magazine)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 25, 2025

Featured podcasts Podcast by Lenny: Openai and first stripe marketing growth tactics | Krithika Shankarraman Interviews with world class product…

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The Google Gemma models have passed downloads of 150 m and 70k + variants on the face of the hugs, after the launch in February 2024; Meta's Llama Models passed 1.2B downloads in April (Kyle Wiggers / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 12, 2025

Kyle Wiggers / Techcrunch:: The Google Gemma models have passed downloads of 150 m and 70k + variants on the…

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The 20th anniversary of his first video, YouTube says he had 20T + downloads, including 20m + per day now, and reveals applications and television updates, including a new multivale (Abner Li / 9to5google)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 23, 2025

Abner Li / 9TO5GOOGLE:: The 20th anniversary of his first video, YouTube says he had 20T + downloads, including 20m…

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Tour of sensors: Xiaohongshu downloads fell 91% in five days after Apple and Google brought Tiktok into account in their American application stores on February 13, while Tiktok is doubled (Vlad Savov / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 21, 2025

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:: Tour of sensors: Xiaohongshu downloads fell 91% in five days after Apple and Google withdrew Tiktok…

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The Mistral Chat application leads 1m downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the best free downloads in the App Store in France; Chatgpt had 500K in just six days (Romain Dillet / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2025

Romain Dillet / Techcrunch:: The Mistral Chat application leads 1m downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the best free…

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Longtime colleagues say John Ternus will bring back the decisiveness of the Jobs era, moving away from the Cook era where decisions were made collectively by top executives (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Tim Cook has reshaped Apple in his own image and is stepping down as CEO on his own terms, apparently choosing the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Chinese PCB maker Victory Giant jumps about 57% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising about $2.6 billion in its IPO, the biggest in the city so far this year (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)

US Air Force cancels RTX ground control network for next generation of US GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

OpenAI deploys Chronicle, which creates memories from screenshots to make Codex more context-aware, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Browsing: downloads

Supply chain attack compromises Axios HTTP client with 100 million weekly npm downloads, introducing malicious dependency and deploying multi-stage payload (Socket)

Appfigures: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6% year-over-year to $155.8 billion in 2025, but app downloads fell 2.7% to $106.9 billion (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

A look at the rise of AI companion applications; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with more than 220 million downloads in total as of July 2025 (Financial Times)

A look at Flighty, a flight tracking app that often outperforms airline updates; downloads increased 3x when FAA reduced air traffic during US government shutdown (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Appfigures: AI Companies Applications are on the right track to generate $ 120 million + income in 2025, and in H1, there were 60 million downloads of this type of application, up 88% in annual sliding (Sarah Perez / Techcrunch)

Sarvam Ai's 24b-Parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on the face of the embrace, which raises concerns concerning the efforts of the AI in India (Mohit Pandy / Analytics India Magazine)

The Google Gemma models have passed downloads of 150 m and 70k + variants on the face of the hugs, after the launch in February 2024; Meta's Llama Models passed 1.2B downloads in April (Kyle Wiggers / Techcrunch)

The 20th anniversary of his first video, YouTube says he had 20T + downloads, including 20m + per day now, and reveals applications and television updates, including a new multivale (Abner Li / 9to5google)

Tour of sensors: Xiaohongshu downloads fell 91% in five days after Apple and Google brought Tiktok into account in their American application stores on February 13, while Tiktok is doubled (Vlad Savov / Bloomberg)

The Mistral Chat application leads 1m downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the best free downloads in the App Store in France; Chatgpt had 500K in just six days (Romain Dillet / Techcrunch)