Morning Brew - August 01, 2024

Amazon wants to appeal the decision.

On July 19th, Crowdstrike created the biggest outage in history. Find out the what the deployment process looked like that made this possible.

The SEC may shelve its allegation that Solana, Polygon, and Cardano are unregistered securities in its Binance lawsuit.

The issuer of stablecoin USDC was valued at as much as $9 billion when it first tried to go public in a failed SPAC deal in 2022.

One of the first initiatives under Governor Newsom’s blockchain executive order highlights the benefits of web3 technology for Americans

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Microsoft Security researchers have observed a vulnerability used by various ransomware operators to get full administrative access to domain-joined ESXi hypervisors and encrypt the virtual machines running on them. The vulnerability involves creating a group called “ESX Admins” in Active Directory and adding an attacker-controlled user account to this group. This manipulation of the Active Directory group takes advantage of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-37085) in ESXi hypervisors that grants the added user full administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor. The vulnerability was fixed by VMware in their June release and ESXi administrators should install this security update.

The problem? Collecting biometric data without permission.

The voice-enabled chatbot will be available to a small group of people today, and to all ChatGPT Plus users in the fall.

Headed for the web as well as Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, AI Studio will let you build a chatbot that acts as a virtual extension of yourself.

The Scarlett Johansson-like voice isn’t part of the product.

The Kubernetes agent is generally available.

OpenTofu 1.8.0 is now available with early variable/locals evaluation, provider mocking for tests, and a future that makes every-day Tofu code a lot simpler.

Content creators already have to deal with this issue on YouTube. Now it’s spreading to other platforms.

Leonardo.ai will soon be integrated into Canva’s AI tools.

You can do it just by chatting with an AI.

Shutterstock has launched a new enterprise option for their “Generative 3D” service in commercial beta. Their tool allows designers to quickly create 3D assets and 360-degree HDR environments using text or image prompts. The company says it has been working with NVIDIA for a year to train the models and