EP-71 Apple Maps Web Beta 🌐, Tesla’s Stock Drop 📉, Meta’s Anti-cybercrime Push 🛡️

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for thursday, july 25th.

• apple maps web expansion: apple maps launches a public beta for the web, taking on google maps with support for safari, chrome, and edge, and promising features like driving directions and curated guides.
• tesla shares plunge: tesla shares drop 12% following weaker-than-expected q2 earnings, with ceo elon musk hinting at an affordable car and autonomous ride-hailing service on the horizon.
• meta’s crackdown on sextortion scams: meta shuts down 63,000 instagram accounts in nigeria linked to financial sextortion scams, using advanced technical signals to identify and restrict these accounts.
• crowdstrike outage: a botched update leads to a massive outage affecting 8.5 million windows devices, with crowdstrike issuing $10 uber eats gift cards and public apologies from its ceo and cso.
• colin kaepernick’s lumi: colin kaepernick launches lumi, an ai storytelling platform aimed at democratizing content creation, with tools for character generation and script development, backed by $4 million in seed funding.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow.