Morning Brew - July 25, 2024

Welcome to the Morning Brew technology newsletter. Our daily newsletter with links and TLDRs of major tech and programming stories.

Morning Brew -  July 25, 2024
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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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Use NordVPN to protect your privacy and keep your online data safe.
CrowdStrikeā€™s ubiquity under fire as Congress calls for CEO to testify
Congress fears worker shortage may delay CrowdStrike repairs.
Googleā€™s shortened links will stop working next year
All goo.gl links will be unresponsive after August 25th, 2025.
Appleā€™s first foldable iPhone could arrive in 2026
Appleā€™s take on the Galaxy Z Flip.
Wiz turns down $23 billion Google deal, says itā€™s aiming for IPO
Assaf Rappaport, CEO and cofounder of the cybersecurity startup, told employees the company will remain independent and aim for $1 billion in annual recurring revenue and a public stock offering as its next big goals.

Cryptocurrency

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Kryptex mines cryptocurrency and pays you bitcoins or real-world money.
BlockFi Administrator Submits Plan in Court to Make Customers Whole
The plan administrator revealed that a significant transaction had been closed which would enable a near-term final distribution of 100% for all eligible claims.

Cybersecurity

Safety Gear Giant Cadre Holdings Reports Cybersecurity Breach
Cadre Holdings, a leading provider of safety and survivability products, has disclosed a significant cybersecurity incident through a Form 8-K
Domain Hijacking
Squarespaceā€™s Status Page - Domain Hijacking.
Meta given weeks to tell EU consumer protection authorities how itā€™ll fix ā€˜pay or consentā€™ | TechCrunch
Meta has been given until September 1 to respond to consumer protection concerns in the European Union. The Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network,
Verizon to pay $16 million in TracFone data breach settlement
Verizon Communications has agreed to a $16,000,000 settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. concerning three data breach incidents its wholly-owned subsidiary, TracFone Wireless, suffered after its acquisition in 2021.

AI

Harvey Raises Series C from Google Ventures, OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, and SV Angel
Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward | Meta
Mark Zuckerberg outlines why he believes open source AI is good for developers, Meta and the world.
Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop
Including Generative Shape Fill and Text to Pattern for Illustrator.

DevOps

CrowdStrike Launches Guidance Hub For Dealing With Windows Outage | Build5Nines
CrowdStrike, in an effort to mitigate the widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike content bug, they have launched a comprehensive ā€œRemediation

Marketing

Metaā€™s Added a New Way To Incorporate Offers Into Your Ads
Meta will now be able to automatically detect offers based on your chosen URL.

Web Development

How Canva collects 25 billion events per day - Canva Engineering Blog
The architecture of our product analytics event delivery pipeline.

Design

ā€˜Deliberate and in bad faithā€™: Olympic committee sues Prime over packaging design
The YouTuber drinks brand has allegedly ignored cease and desist efforts.