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Tuesday, Jul 18, 2023

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine reportedly attacked the only bridge linking Crimea to Russia yesterday. While Ukraine didn’t publicly claim responsibility for the attack on the Kerch Bridge, a nearly 12-mile crossing that’s the longest in Europe, internal government sources told multiple news orgs the damage was caused by water-based drones operated by Ukraine’s military. Moscow says it expects the bridge to be fully operational again by November.

🇮🇳🍎 India will be a major driver of Apple’s user and revenue growth over the next decade, per a new Morgan Stanley report. The bank’s analysts predict India will account for 20% of Apple’s user growth over the next five years, as well as $40 billion in new revenue over the next decade – a figure “equivalent to Apple ramping an entirely new product category.” Morgan Stanley says their assessment was largely based on India’s improved electrification and Apple’s clear efforts to build a manufacturing and retail presence in the country.

🇲🇱📧🇺🇸 Because of a common typo, the country of Mali has received millions of sensitive emails meant for the US military over the past decade. That’s per Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch technologist contracted to manage the western African country’s email domain. In a Financial Times interview published yesterday, Zuurbier says he’s repeatedly tried to warn the Pentagon about how some email traffic meant for the .MIL domain – which is how all US military email addresses end – has instead been going to Mali’s .ML domain since first discovering the problem in 2013. But despite his repeated warnings, the issue persisted – and yesterday, Zuurbier’s contract officially expired, reverting control of the .ML domain to Mali’s government (a close ally of Russia).

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