Moments after winning gold in the women’s team gymnastics final, Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee were thinking ahead... about what TikTok video they should make.
“I wanna do the one that says, ‘Imagine what you would do if you didn’t win,’” Lee says, referencing a viral sound bite from a Kanye West award show speech. They made the TikTok, obviously.
Some saw a lower-than-usual email open rate beginning July 24th — which Substack tied to last weekend’s iCloud Private Relay outage.
With Private Relay, user data is routed through multiple servers, increasing privacy but possibly counting each open more than once. In other words: what newsletter writers saw is a more accurate number.
Have you noticed a dip? Shoot me an email at mia@theverge.com.
Bullying works: after TikTok users complained about Chipotle’s inconsistent portion sizes, the company announced this week it is “doubling down” on training to ensure customers get “correct and generous portions.” It will cost the company $50 million, executives told analysts.
It’s a busy day in DC: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address Congress this afternoon, and Musk is in attendance.
Dozens of Democrats have vowed to boycott his speech — and protests are happening today — as the Israeli bombardment of Gaza stretches into its ninth month. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed.
Update: Musk told a reporter he’s there as a guest of Netanyahu’s.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz apologized to customers on the Today show and said that the company “knows what the issue is” that caused the global IT outage early Friday morning.
Thousands of flights have been grounded so far in the massive outage. Some businesses are trying to reboot and bring their systems back themselves.
