🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #159

It's Friday! The weekend is calling - finish strong!

#SpotifyWrapped - So, Spotify Wrapped is a total letdown this year, all basic and boring, with a weird design and no fun playlists or cool facts, just the usual top artists and tracks, totally underwhelming.

#Solana - Looks like Solana's in hot water again! A backdoor code in their Web3.js library has been exploiting private keys and making off with around $155,000 in stolen crypto. The hackers got in through a sneaky phishing attack targeting maintainers.

#Antitrust - Microsoft learned of fresh antitrust probe against it by the FTC from the news! Yeah - not from the FTC themselves, but from the news media! The FTC has yet to release an official statement on the matter, nor has the commission sent any formal paperwork to Microsoft.

Myntra Launches M-now, Quick Commerce Service
Myntra, India’s largest fashion e-commerce firm, on Thursday launched “M-Now,” its quick-commerce offering. M-Now promises to deliver apparel and other lifetstyle accessories within 30 minutes. The move comes as quick commerce gains significant traction in India.

Telegram Joins Forces With IWF To Combat Child Abuse Material
Telegram, a popular messaging app is partnering with the International Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based organization that fights the spread of child abuse content online. This comes after Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in August on charges related to distributing and possessing child abuse material. The partnership gives Telegram access to tools that block links to child abuse content, helping to reduce its presence on the platform.

Bitcoin Surges Past $100,000
Bitcoin hit $75,000 on Election Day following the news that Donald Trump won. The price has been rising since, as investors expect a more crypto-friendly environment under the Trump administration. The final push past the $100k mark occurred a few hours after Trump announced several nominations for his administration.

OpenAI Unveils "12 Days Of OpenAI" Event
12 Days of OpenAI starts tomorrow. 12 livestreams. A bunch of new things. They're kicking off a 12-day livestream event to showcase new AI tech, big & small. It has started already, so get ready for some exciting announcements!

Clerk - Introduces Waitlist Sign-up mode for managing early access and controlling onboarding of new users.

Instagram Threads - Added the ability to follow and view profiles from other federated servers in the open social web, enabling users to connect with people from services like Mastodon and Pixelfed.

Firefox - Official iCloud Passwords extension now available, allowing users to access iCloud-stored passwords directly in the browser, exclusively for macOS Sonoma or later.

Amazon Web Services - Introduces Buy with AWS button, allowing cloud software partners to embed payment option on their sites for customers to purchase services with their AWS account.

Google Drive - Support for requesting electronic signatures on PDF files stored in Google Drive has been added.

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Wikipedia's Top Pages 2024
Wikipedia's annual list of most-visited pages reveals US politics, pop culture, and global events dominated user searches, with a list of 2024 deaths topping the list with 44 million views, followed by US politicians and celebrities like Taylor Swift.

AWS Re:Invent - A Summary
AWS re:Invent 2024 is taking place Dec. 2-6, 2024, in Las Vegas. This premier cloud computing event brings together the global cloud computing community. Amazon Web Services announces new services and features at re:Invent 2024, including Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, Amazon EC2 TRN2 instances, and enhanced Amazon Connect with generative AI.