Morning Brew - November 04, 2024

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Morning Brew -  November 04, 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

ā€˜Cloud-milkingā€™: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive
The project that began in the Canary Islands mimics the way leaves capture water droplets from fog in order to produce water
Meta is using more than 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs to train Llama-4 ā€” Mark Zuckerberg says that Llama 4 is being trained on a cluster ā€œbigger than anything that Iā€™ve seenā€
Llama 4 slated to have new modalities, stronger reasoning, and faster performance
Over 500 Amazon workers decry ā€œnon-data-drivenā€ logic for 5-day RTO policy
ā€œI used to be proud of my work and excited about my future here. I donā€™t feel that anymore.ā€ā€¦
Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
Meta is making a robot hand that can ā€˜feelā€™ touch | TechCrunch
Meta says itā€™s partnering with sensor firm GelSight and Wonik Robotics, a South Korean robotics company, to commercialize tactile sensors for AI.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT with Search, taking Google head-on
As traditional web search falters, OpenAI offers an AI-based alternative.
Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to Microsoft
Cloud provider allegedly approached by Google ratted out shady group to Microsoft.

Cryptocurrency

Thread by @Immutable on Thread Reader App
@Immutable: Immutable has received a Wells notice from the SEC, the latest in their de facto policy of regulation by enforcement. We received this within hours of our first ever conversation, on a timeline clearly a...ā€¦
Thread by @sandeepnailwal on Thread Reader App
@sandeepnailwal: Most crypto gurus donā€™t realise that Polygon pivoted heavily into being a research first organisation in the last 2 years instead of being GTM first. Last six months, with most research challenges s...ā€¦
Thread by @DavidVorick on Thread Reader App
@DavidVorick: Glow has once again smashed the record, doing $3.4 million in on-chain revenue in a single day. Details in šŸ§µ fortune.com/crypto/2024/10ā€¦

Cybersecurity

EXCLUSIVE: Cyber attack wipes out DHL delivery tracking systems causing issues for Nisa retailers - Better Retailing
A global outage caused by a cyber attack on DHLā€™s vehicle tracking partner Microlise is to impact Nisa stores until resolved.
AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context - AWS
Discover more about whatā€™s new at AWS with AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies calls to AWS services with single identity context
Misconfigured Git Configurations Targeted in Emeraldwhale Attack
Emeraldwhale breach allowed access to over 10,000 repositories and resulted in the theft of more than 15,000 cloud service credentials
Fake Puppeteer Packages Contain Malware
In ongoing supply chain attack on npm.

AI

Advancing embodied AI through progress in touch perception, dexterity, and human-robot interaction
Today, Meta FAIR is publicly releasing several new research artifacts that advance robotics and support our goal of reaching advanced machine intelligence (AMI).
Elon Muskā€™s xAI adds image understanding capabilities to Grok | TechCrunch
Elon Musk-owned xAI has added image-understanding capabilities to its Grok AI model. This means that paid users on his social platform X, who have access
Meta is reportedly developing a search engine for its chatbot
Meta, seeking to reduce reliance on Google and Microsoft, is reportedly developing a search engine for its chatbot. The company is also partnering with Reuters to help AI answer news-related queries.
A mysterious new image generation model has appeared | TechCrunch
A mysterious new image generation model is beating models from Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, and OpenAI on the crowdsourced Artificial Analysis benchmark.
Google plans to announce its next Gemini model soon
December is shaping up to be a month of dueling AI announcements from OpenAI and Google.

DevOps

Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation | Amazon Web Services
A decade of AWS innovation: Amazon ECS evolved from simplifying container orchestration to powering massive operations like Prime Day and enabling customers like SmugMug to seamlessly migrate petabytes of data and scale efficiently with ā€œblazingly-fastā€ performance.
Announcing AWS AppSync Events: serverless WebSocket APIs to power real-time web and mobile experiences at any scale | Amazon Web Services
Today, AWS AppSync announced AWS AppSync Events, a feature that lets developers easily broadcast real-time event data to a few or millions of subscribers using secure and performant serverless WebSocket APIs. With AWS AppSync Events, developers no longer have to worry about building WebSocket infrastructure, managing connection state, and implementing fan-out. Developers simply create their [ā€¦]
Flatcar brings Container Linux to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Flatcar as a CNCF incubating project. Flatcar is a zero-touch, minimal operating system (OS) for containerized workloadsā€¦

Marketing

Travel Tuesday is realā€”and growing
Youā€™ve heard of Black Friday. But todayā€™s consumers increasingly shop for trips on Travel Tuesday. How can travel industry players benefit from this trend?
The Awareness Advantage Report | Tracksuit
New research from Tracksuit and TikTok shows that combining brand and performance marketing drives better advertising results on TikTok.
YouTube Holds Top Spot for Creator Content and Product Research for Second Consecutive Year, According to New Traackr Research
/PRNewswire/ -- Traackr, the leading performance-driven influencer marketing platform, today released its annual Influencer Marketing Impact Report, whichā€¦
How to Scale a Marketplace: Lessons from Grubhub & Pinterest
Casey Winters, the growth expert behind Grubhub, Pinterest & Eventbrite, shares proven strategies for scaling marketplaces from 0 to $1B.
Russia fines Google an impossible amount in attempt to end YouTube bans
Kremlin rep on fine of 2 undecillion rubles: ā€œI cannot even say this number.ā€ā€¦

Web Development

How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
A study of Googleā€™s code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
Gemini in Android Studio rolls out more AI-powered development features - SiliconANGLE
Gemini in Android Studio rolls out more AI-powered development features - SiliconANGLE

Design

A first look at Appleā€™s redesigned Mac Mini and its other new Macs
Weā€™ve got photos of Appleā€™s new Macs.
The Vaticanā€™s new ā€˜pop cultureā€™ anime mascot raises eyebrows
ā€˜Luceā€™ is the Catholic churchā€™s latest foray into youth culture.
DutchScotā€™s Minimalist Web Design: A Study in Clarity and Creativity
Explore DutchScotā€™s minimalist web design, blending striking simplicity with insightful case studies for brand storytelling.

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