EP-56 Amazon’s Astro Shutdown 🤖, Twilio’s Security Breach 🔓, Lg’s Smart Home Ambitions 🏡

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for thursday, july 4th! here's what we're covering today:

• amazon discontinues astro for business: amazon will end support for astro's business version to focus on its home robot side, offering full refunds and an additional $300 credit for a replacement solution.
• twilio authy app breach: threat actors accessed phone numbers through an unsecured api endpoint, leading to potential phishing and other scams. twilio has secured the endpoint but advises users to stay vigilant.
• lg acquires athom: lg's 80% stake acquisition of the homey smart home platform will integrate with thinq appliances, aiming to compete better with samsung's smartthings.
• cloudflare's anti-ai scraping tool: a new tool to block ai bots that scrape websites for data, enhancing bot detection and prevention strategies.
• meta's threads social network growth: threads hits 175 million monthly active users, fueled by instagram promotions and eyeing new markets like japan.

stay tuned for tomorrow's updates!