Morning Brew - October 31, 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
GitHub Copilot moves beyond OpenAI models to support Claude 3.5, Gemini
News sparks speculation Microsoft will go multi-model with other AI products.
Samuel Axon
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
The company had a strong quarter thanks in large part to AI.
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Report: iPhone 17 early manufacturing set for India, marking new milestone for Apple - 9to5Mac
Apple has reportedly hit a big milestone in its goals to diversify the iPhone 17 supply chain in India, as a new report outlines.
Ryan Christoffel
Cryptocurrency
Thread by @Cointelegraph on Thread Reader App
@Cointelegraph: 🇧🇹 BREAKING: In the past hour, the Royal Government of Bhutan transferred 935 $BTC ($66.55M) to Binance. The government’s holdings total 12.45K $BTC, valued at $886.84M.
Cointelegraph
Thread by @brian_armstrong on Thread Reader App
@brian_armstrong: The next SEC chair should withdraw all frivolous cases, and issue an apology to the American people. It would not undue the damage done to the country, but it would start the process of restoring...…
Brian Armstrong
Cybersecurity
Admins Spring into action over latest open source vuln
Patch up: The Spring framework dominates the Java ecosystem
Connor Jones
The Strava problem: how the fitness app was used to locate the world’s most powerful people
A French newspaper has revealed the whereabouts of world leaders with the use of the hugely popular running app. So is it time to stop it tracking your location?
Guardian Staff
Free, France’s second largest ISP, confirms data breach after leak
Free, a major internet service provider (ISP) in France, confirmed over the weekend that hackers breached its systems and stole customer personal information.
International law enforcement operation dismantled RedLine and Meta infostealers
A global law enforcement operation disrupted RedLine and Meta infostealers, seizing their infrastructure and making arrests.
Pierluigi Paganini
Five Eyes launch shared security advice campaign for tech startups
The Secure Innovation security guidance is being utilised across the Five Eyes intelligence partnership demonstrating the increased commitment between the nations.
New Research Reveals Spectre Vulnerability Persists in Latest AMD and Intel Processors
Discover how new research shows AMD and Intel processors remain vulnerable to speculative execution attacks.
The Hacker News
CrowdStrike, Delta sue each other over flight disruptions - TechCentral
CrowdStrike and its customer Delta Air Lines have sued each other over July’s disastrous software update.
Agency Staff
AI
OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026
Which may open a door for AMD.
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An Interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff about AI Abundance
An interview with Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff about founding Salesforce, building an enterprise platform, and why that puts Salesforce in the best position to build AI agents.
Ben Thompson
Apple releases first batch of Apple Intelligence features, debuts new iMac - SiliconANGLE
Apple releases first batch of Apple Intelligence features, debuts new iMac - SiliconANGLE
Maria Deutscher
DevOps
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) Networking, Reimagined | DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports VPC peering, global load balancer, internal load balancer and VPC-native DOKS cluster support.
Nicole Ghalwash
Honeycomb Says Don’t Give Up on Frontend Observability
Honeycomb’s new frontend observability tool taps OpenTelemetry to provide developers with deeper insights and faster debugging of web performance issues.
Zero Downtime Jenkins with CloudBees CI: A Guide to Uninterrupted Software Deployment
Say goodbye to Jenkins outages! Discover how CloudBees CI can maintain zero downtime and keep pipelines running smoothly, boosting developer productivity.
Marketing
How to Keep Email Audiences Engaged in Seconds
Learn effective strategies, see real-world examples, and get expert tips on using micro-content to enhance your email marketing engagement.
Brooke Webber
How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool
LLMs help reporters transcribe and sort through hundreds of hours of leaked audio.
Kyle Orland
Web Development
GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English | TechCrunch
When GitHub Copilot launched and started autocompleting lines of code -- and, later, entire code snippets -- the question many people were asking was: How
Frederic Lardinois
A Netflix Web Performance Case Study
Improving Time-To-Interactive for Netflix.com on Desktop
Design
Apple announces redesigned Mac Mini with M4 chip — and it’s so damn small
More power than ever in a downright tiny package.
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Microsoft combines Teams chat and channels in UI refresh
The updated interface, available in public preview in November, will make it easier to manage conversations across the collaboration app, said Microsoft.
Matthew Finnegan
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