Morning Brew - August 06, 2024
Welcome to the Morning Brew technology newsletter. Our daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of major tech and programming stories.
Welcome to the Morning Brew technology newsletter.
Our daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of major tech and programming stories.
Tech
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The U.S. is suing TikTok for allegedly violating children’s privacy laws
Yet another legal battle for TikTok.
Christianna Silva
Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.
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Cryptocurrency
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Cybersecurity
Massive SMS stealer campaign infects Android devices in 113 countries
A malicious campaign targeting Android devices worldwide utilizes thousands of Telegram bots to infect devices with SMS-stealing malware and steal one-time 2FA passwords (OTPs) for over 600 services.
StackExchange abused to spread malicious PyPi packages as answers
Threat actors uploaded malicious Python packages to the PyPI repository and promoted them through the StackExchange online question and answer platform.
Law firms hit with average ransom demand of $2.5 million - Comparitech
Since 2018, 138 legal firms across the globe have publicly confirmed ransomware attacks on their systems, impacting at least 2.9 million records. 2023 saw the highest number of attacks (45) and records affected (1.6 million) so far. A growing number of ransomware gangs use double-extortion tactics by stealing data and encrypting systems. The legal sector […]
Rebecca Moody
Hackers breach ISP to poison software updates with malware
A Chinese hacking group tracked as StormBamboo has compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) to poison automatic software updates with malware.
CISA Names First Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer | CISA
AI
Exclusive: Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google as the tech giant invests in the AI company
In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed
Ivan Mehta
Microsoft says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search
What once was a strategic, long-term partnership between the world’s biggest software company and an AI startup has morphed into something more complicated.
Jordan Novet
DevOps
AK 3.8 Adds 17 KIPs: New Docker Images and much more
Apache Kafka 3.8 adds 17 new KIPs (13 for Core, 3 for Streams & 1 for Connect). Highlights include 2 new Docker images, the ability to set task assignors, and more!
Flink 1.20 Adds Significant Improvements Along w/Deprecations
Apache Flink 1.20 improves table interactions, state file merging, RocksDB file compaction, and more; also deprecates extensively: configs and APIs
New OpenTofu Release Challenges Terraform’s Dominance
OpenTofu 1.8 introduces early variables/locals evaluation, which was the most highly anticipated feature of the release, among other requested features.
Marketing
Amazon misses on ad sales while Prime Video push ramps up
The company’s advertising growth rate decelerated in Q2 but Prime Video was in focus following the streamer’s debut upfronts pitch.
Peter Adams
Design
Adobe Transforms Public Vulnerability Disclosure Program into a Paid Bug Bounty Program
By Daniel Ventura, Manager of Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)
Renae Kang
Microsoft strips ads from Skype in a move toward “user-centric design”
Update also improves AI image features, adds OneAuth support on iOS.
Samuel Axon
