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April 6th, 2023

Good morning, and happy Thursday! We’ve got a lot to cover today, but before we do, take a moment to appreciate these 25 Scrabble words played by middle and high schoolers in this year’s North American School Scrabble Championship. From the looks of some of the words, like atelier and acajou, we would get smoked if we entered that competition. We’ll stick to the news!

In Today’s Brief

Brazil: Kindergarten hatchet attack
Texas: Settlement for 2017 church shooting
John Elway: Departs Broncos franchise
FedEx: Consolidating all operations

...and more

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Operation Cookie Monster

International law enforcement agencies yesterday seized a dark web marketplace called Genesis Market in a multinational takedown dubbed “Operation Cookie Monster.”

Genesis Market has been active since 2017 as an online marketplace that sells stolen credentials and digital browser fingerprints gathered from compromised systems. These fingerprints enabled hackers to impersonate victims’ web browsers to access their online banking and subscription services, such as Amazon and Netflix, without needing victims’ passwords or authentication tokens. Per investigators, Genesis sold 80M sets of identifying information stolen from more than 2M people.

FBI officials called the takedown “the biggest operation of its kind” and said the agency was able to identify approximately 59K users of the marketplace by obtaining its computer systems. Operation Cookie Monster led to the arrest of nearly 120 suspected users and involved law enforcement officials from 17 countries, including the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and others.

Masters kicks off

The Masters Tournament, the first major of the 2023 PGA Tour season, will kick off for the 87th time today at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

The tournament will conclude Sunday, April 9th, with the champion receiving the green jacket that has been associated with the Masters since 1937. American Scottie Scheffler–who took home the trophy last year–will look to be the tournament’s first consecutive champion since Tiger Woods in 2001 and 2002. In Masters history, only three golfers–Woods, Nick Faldo (1989 and 1990), and Jack Nicklaus (1965 and 1966)–have successfully defended their title from the previous year.

Scottie Scheffler is the betting favorite for this year’s tournament, followed by Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, and Tony Finau. Jack Nicklaus has taken home more Masters trophies than any other golfer, with six titles to his name. Tiger Woods has the second-most, with five.

Tech entrepreneur stabbed

Bob Lee, the creator of Cash App and a former executive of Square, lost his life at age 43 after a stabbing in San Francisco earlier this week, per multiple reports.

Per police reports, the incident occurred around 2:35 AM on Tuesday morning in the 300 block of Main Street. After arriving at the scene, officers took Lee to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Lee’s death was confirmed by Josh Goldbard, the CEO of MobileCoin, where Lee was currently working as chief product officer. No arrest has been made as of last night and San Francisco police haven’t released any suspect details.

According to police data, there have been 12 reports of homicides in San Francisco this year, an uptick of 20% compared to the same time period in 2022. There were 56 reported homicides in San Francisco last year, which is the same number of homicides the city saw in 2021.

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Around the Globe

A man wielding a hatchet attacked a kindergarten in southern Brazil yesterday, leaving at least four children dead and four others injured in the city of Blumenau, per local officials (More)
Israeli forces attacked the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem during Ramadan prayers, arresting at least 400 Palestinians and sparking retaliatory rocket fire from northern Gaza; the Arab League is set to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the raid (More)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Poland to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda, who pledged to send additional Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict with Russia (More)

On the Homefront

A tornado that moved through southeast Missouri early yesterday morning left at least five people dead, per local authorities; according to the National Weather Service, estimated peak winds reached 130mph (More)
Families & victims of a 2017 shooting at a Texas church will receive a tentative $144M settlement from the Justice Department; in terms of casualties, it remains the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history (More)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in 2024 as a Democrat; Kennedy is the second Democrat to officially enter the 2024 race (More)

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Warner Bros. sets ‘Minecraft’ film release date for April 4th, 2025, and announces other changes, including unscheduling the Wizard of Oz animated film Toto (More)
Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway is no longer employed by the franchise; Elway confirmed that his contract as a consultant expired on the first day of the 2023 NFL league year, March 15th (More)
Malia Obama is developing a short film with Donald Glover as part of the latter’s newly-created production company, Gilga, per remarks from Glover (More)

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Business & Markets

Major indexes in the stock market ended mixed, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq losing for the third straight day (Dow +0.24%, Nasdaq -1.07%, S&P 500 -0.25%)
Global shipping carrier FedEx said it will consolidate its ground, express, and freight operating companies into a single organization, a restructuring effort to be completed by July 2024 (More)
Exxon Mobil Corp ended its offshore drilling campaign in Brazil after failing to find oil in the country, according to sources familiar with the matter (More)

Tips & Tricks

Feel Good: Meet John Jepkema, a Colorado man who, at age 91, became the oldest person to ever cross the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim on foot (it’s never too late to go after what you want, folks!)
Sneak Peek: Watch the exceptionally creepy official trailer #2 for Beau is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Ari Aster, the mind behind recent horror staples Hereditary and Midsommar
Bump This: Singer-songwriter Alexander 23 combines cheerful vibes with a hint of melancholy in his new laid-back single “I Wanna Live Forever” - listen on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube
Chow Down: If you’re craving something sweet and seasonal, try out this recipe for strawberry coconut cookie dough bites that requires zero baking and can be made totally vegan
Meet Up: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen in Simi Valley, California, days after China labeled the meeting as a “provocation” and threatened “countermeasures” if it took place
Hot Goss: A South African pilot had to make an emergency landing while flying four people in a small twin prop plane this week…because he looked down and realized there was a cobra underneath his seat (and just like that, a new nightmare has been unlocked in our subconscious)
Life Hack: Many grow addicted to worrying over the course of our lives, whether we admit it or not…and once anxious thoughts start up, they can be hard to stop - here are four tips to make worrying productive and start taking steps to move past anxiety when it hits

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Meet 106-year-old Apo Whang-Od, Vogue’s oldest cover model.

Remembering the late creator of the game Settlers of Catan.

Looking Back…

On April 6th: The U.S. declares war on Germany, entering WWI three years after the conflict began (1917); 3M begins selling Post-it Notes in U.S. stores (1980); Michael Jordan is elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2009); musician Merle Haggard is born (1937).

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