Morning Brew - July 30, 2024

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

Morning Brew -  July 30, 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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Report: Apple Intelligence Delayed to iOS 18.1 in October
Apple Intelligence will miss its initial expected launch date to give Apple more time to fix bugs, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. According…
Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy | TechCrunch
Payments giant Stripe has acquired a four-year-old competitor, Lemon Squeezy, the latter company announced Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Cryptocurrency

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@WatcherGuru: 🇺🇸 Donald Trump 2024 Bitcoin Conference Speech Recap: • On day one I will fire Gary Gensler and appoint a new SEC chairman. • Create a US Government strategic national Bitcoin stockpile if elected. •...…
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@BitcoinPierre: BREAKING: Democrat politicians have written a letter to the DNC, asking the party to pivot away from the anti-bitcoin policies of Elizabeth Warren. This is likely in response to polling data, the GOP...…
Coinbase Asset Management Plans Tokenized Money-Market Fund, a Hot Area After BlackRock’s BUIDL Success: Sources
Tokenization is one of the hottest corners of the blockchain ecosystem.
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@Johnny_nkc: Former U.S. President Trump recently gave a speech at the U.S. Bitcoin Summit, sharing his views on Bitcoin. Bitcoin and Web3 have already gained the attention and development of countries around the wo...…

Cybersecurity

Malicious Python Package Targets macOS Developers
“lr-utils-lib” was uploaded to PyPi in early June 2024, containing malicious code that executes automatically upon installation.
Crypto exchange Gemini discloses third-party data breach
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini is warning it suffered a data breach incident caused by a cyberattack at its Automated Clearing House (ACH) service provider, whose name was not disclosed.
Critical bug in Docker Engine allowed attackers to bypass authorization plugins
A critical flaw in some versions of Docker Engine can be exploited to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances.

AI

Elon Musk will ‘discuss’ Tesla investing $5 billion in his private AI company
Elon Musk says that he will ‘discuss’ Tesla investing $5 billion in xAI, his own private artificial intelligence company. For…

DevOps

AWS DataSync expands support for agentless cross-region data transfers to include opt-in regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS DataSync expands support for agentless cross-region data transfers to include opt-in regions

Marketing

Non-Google search engines blocked from showing recent Reddit results
Updated robots.txt file hits Bing and others without a Reddit deal.

Web Development

Windows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools | Microsoft Security Blog
We examine the recent CrowdStrike outage and provide a technical overview of the root cause.

Design

The new Mazda logo was a necessary update
The change follows the trend in car logo design, but it’s a better fit with the brand’s new direction.
Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to ‘heroin’
“There is absolutely no way to kill off ETF or talk about it more obviously” in the order flow without “taking a big business hit,” this executive said.