Morning Brew - October 24, 2024

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Tech

Apple working on new App Store-like app dedicated to games

It’s been a month since Apple released iOS 18 to the public, but the company is already working on future…

9to5MacFilipe Espósito

World’s 1st donor cell therapy helps 3 autoimmune disorder patients

The treatment, involving the use of donor cells, has shown positive results in patients six months after receiving treatment.

Interesting EngineeringAbhishek Bhardwaj

NVIDIA Computer Finds Largest Known Prime, Blows Past Record by 16 Million Digits

A GIMPS survey has discovered a prime number with over 41 million digits, surpassing the previous record-holder by more than 16 million digits.

GizmodoIsaac Schultz

NASA’s newest telescope can detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes

A new series of telescopes scheduled to launch in the mid-2030s will look for gravitational waves in space.

EngadgetDanny Gallagher

Cryptocurrency

World’s First ZK-Backed Digital Identity Launched in Buenos Aires for 3.6M Eligible Citizens

Buenos Aires is handing ownership of digital-credentials to their citizens through the miBA application, which has integrated the open-source protocol QuarkID powered by ZKsync.

Warriors Announce Partnership With Coinbase

The Golden State Warriors have announced a partnership with Coinbase, a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing cryptocurrency. Coinbase will become the official cryptocurrency platform and blockchain partner of the Warriors and Chase Center.

NBA

Cybersecurity

Cisco Disables DevHub Access After Security Breach

The networking company confirms that cyberattackers illegally accessed data belonging to some of its customers.

Dark ReadingJai Vijayan, Contributing Writer

50,000 Files Exposed in Nidec Ransomware Attack

The August ransomware attack stole 50,000+ documents from Nidec, leaked after ransom refusal

Infosecurity MagazineAlessandro Mascellino

Google Cloud launches new Vulnerability Rewards Program | Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud

AI

Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

A refreshed, more powerful Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku, and a new experimental AI capability: computer use.

The Second $100B AI Company

The Case for Consumer AI

Digital NativeRex Woodbury

ChatGPT has a Windows app now

It’s only for paid users for now, but it’ll roll out to everyone soon.

The Verge

Adobe’s new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI concepts we’ve seen

‘Project Turnable’ lets users fully rotate 2D vectors.

Creative BloqDaniel John

DevOps

Syncing PagerDuty Schedules to Slack Groups

In this blog, Fred Hebert shares a fix he came up with to sync PagerDuty schedules to Slack groups in just a couple hundred lines of code.

HoneycombFred Hebert

Use GitLab Duo to build and deploy a simple Quarkus-native project

This tutorial shows how a Java application is compiled to machine code and deployed to a Kubernetes cluster using a CI/CD pipeline. See how AI makes the process faster and more efficient.

GitLabCesar Saavedra

Executing Azure SQL Database Queries from Azure DevOps Pipelines

A quick guide on how to execute a SQL script against an Azure SQL Database from an Azure DevOps Pipeline using the AzurePowerShell task.

Marketing

How Much Are Social Media Managers Making?

The results for the 2024 Social Media Compensation Survey are here.

Link in BioRachel Karten

Creator Entrepreneurs on the Rise | Billion Dollar Boy

Long-form creator content is experiencing a resurgence according to new independent research by global creator agency, Billion Dollar Boy.

Billion Dollar Boy

Design

Spotify now lets you create custom cover art for your playlists | TechCrunch

Spotify is rolling out the ability for users to design and customize their own playlist cover art, the company announced on Tuesday.

TechCrunchAisha Malik

Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator

The Leonardo.ai acquisition has been put to use.

The Verge

Kevin Bacon, Kate McKinnon, and other creatives warn of ‘unjust’ AI threat

Unauthorized AI training threatens livelihoods, their statement says.

The Verge

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