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CROWDSTRIKE'S IMPACT ON AVIATION

CrowdStrike's software update on July 19th caused a massive IT outage that impacted air traffic, particularly for major airlines like Delta, United, and American, which experienced widespread cancellations. While Southwest remained largely unaffected, Delta faced the most severe consequences due to its reliance on Windows systems and a lack of effective disaster recovery plans. Despite widespread disruptions, the impact of the outage was systematically analyzed using ADS-B Exchange data to compare takeoff rates before, during, and after the update, providing insights into the scale and duration of the disruption.

COMP DOWN 6.7% AFTER SUPPOSED 'GOVERNANCE ATTACK' ON COMPOUND DAO

COMP has suffered a ‘governance attack' after a group known as the Golden Boys passed a proposal to distribute $24 million in COMP to a new protocol controlled by their multi-sig. They had two prior proposals fail, but a third went through after there was insufficient support to veto the proposal. The leader of the Golden Boys, Humpy, previously executed a similar attack on Balancer in 2022. The Compound forums state that Humpy will cancel the proposal in exchange for the protocol sharing fees with COMP holders.

APPLE RELEASES IOS 18.1 DEVELOPER BETA WITH THE FIRST ‘APPLE INTELLIGENCE' IPHONE FEATURES

Apple's newly released developer betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 contain the company's first set of AI features, including a Siri with an updated design and ability to maintain context across multiple requests, new Mail features like smart replay and email summaries, and natural language search in Photos. The features will likely not be rolled out to general users until well into 2025. They will only work on the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max or on iPads and Macs with Apple Silicon chips. Beta testers will need to join a waitlist for access to the features.

YOUTUBE'S WAR ON AD BLOCKERS CONTINUES, NOW MAKING ADS TRULY UNSKIPPABLE

Multiple YouTube users are reporting that the site is serving them with blank ads or black screens before a video when they are using an ad-blocker extension. The change makes users wait for their content, partially defeating the purpose of using an ad blocker. YouTube began testing server-side ad injection last month to further render ad blockers obsolete. The solution inserts ads directly into the main YouTube video feed so that ad blockers can no longer distinguish the two pieces of media.

SPACEX MOVING DRAGON SPLASHDOWNS TO PACIFIC TO SOLVE FALLING DEBRIS PROBLEM

SpaceX will begin returning its Dragon crew and cargo capsules to splashdowns in the Pacific Ocean sometime next year and end recoveries of the spacecraft off the coast of Florida. This will eliminate the tiny risk that a piece of debris from the ship's trunk section might fall on someone and cause damage, injury, or death. Debris from several Dragon missions have been discovered on properties over the past couple of years. SpaceX is unaware of any structure damage or injuries caused by this debris.

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