Edition #61

The One Thing

• Houthi attack kills six in first fatalities in Red Sea in over a year; U.S. strikes container ship

Signals

• DentaQuest breach exposes data of 15M people, a record this year
• Jalapeños served at Qdoba, Chipotle tied to Salmonella outbreak
• 421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one
• CoreWeave surges 18% in premarket after a 'cleaner quarter.' Here's what's happening
• Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware
• 5 Interesting Learnings from Palo Alto Networks at $11.4 Billion in Revenue: 60% ARR Growth, 120% NRR, and a $25B Acquisition That Doubled the Stock
• Lifestyle brand Stanley 1913 adapts its marketing for the AI search era
• Citadel Securities called the stock-market reset. Now it sees a leverage buildup on the horizon.
• ‘Historic’ labor market shrinkage highlights need for AI, economist says
• Michigan suspends truck driving school amid nationwide CDL crackdown
• ‘Substantial gaps’ in skills are hurting manager readiness, report says

Watch Your Back

• CISA gives federal agencies two weeks to patch Microsoft bug exploited in DPRK campaign
• Signal adds new security feature to thwart man-in-the-middle attacks
• Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws
• New Microsoft Defender 'ShieldBreak' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges
• Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access

Antics

• Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people — and the grid — will actually want
• Top Founders Say AI Actually ‘Sucks’ at These Crucial Business Skills
• AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

What's Being Built

• Dograh — The open source VAPI alternative
• Lettertrace — Track your AI visibility for free (using your own API keys!)
• Assembly Studio — AI app builder that grows your revenue