🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #104

Happy Friday! Let the weekend vibes begin early!

#LinkedIn - Overnight, LinkedIn decided to train its AI models on user data. The only catch - they forgot to tell the users. Users were opted in by default and their privacy policy was not updated to reflect this

#SocialAI - Have you heard of the Dead Internet Theory - it basically talks about a scenario where the only users of the internet will be robots in the not so distant future. Well, we are getting there in this new app - Social AI. The app behaves very much like twitter where you can post a tweet like content, but the replies, likes and any other forms of engagement you are going to get is from bots!

#YouTube - They have found a new way to serve you ads. Now, if you pause a video, an advertisement may just play in the background!

#PayPal - Paypal has a new logo. We will save you a click and tell you that it’s just the text Paypal written in black. Just like any other regular text.

#IBM - IBM Cloud experienced "a massive layoff" in the past few days, an insider said. The cuts have been directed mainly at senior-level programmers, support. IBM expects to exit 2024 at roughly the same level of employment as it entered with.

India To Ease Upi Market Share Caps For Google Pay And Phonepe
India's National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is considering increasing the market share limit for operators like Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm to more than 40% as it struggles to enforce the previous 30% cap. This would mean PhonePe, currently with 48% market share, can continue to dominate the UPI payments space in India.

Salesforce Announces Indian Era
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the world is entering an ‘Indian era’ He emphasised the significance of the Indian operations in engineering and market engagement. The company employs over 11,000 people in India.

Apple Expands Iphone Production To Brazil And India
Apple has started manufacturing the iPhone 16 at its Foxconn facility in Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, besides China and India, making it the first time a recently launched iPhone is being assembled in Brazil from day one, while India will also be producing the Pro and Pro Max models.

Indian Government Launches National Centre Of Excellence For Animation
Actually, it's a government initiative led by Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Electronics and IT. It's aimed at boosting India's animation industry, and will have nodes in various states. They'll focus on skill development, innovation, and research to make India a global player in animation.

Modali | A delightful modal dialog component for React, built from the ground up to support React Hooks.

Amplify Ui | Amplify UI is a collection of accessible, themeable, performant React (and more!) components that can connect directly to the cloud.

React 19 Cheat Sheet
This webpage provides a comprehensive cheat sheet for React 19, covering topics such as React 19 syntax, hooks, and APIs. You will learn key concepts, notation, and code snippets to improve your understanding of the latest React version.

Exceptions Are Not A Mistake
Traditional object-oriented programming languages use special exception classes that can be thrown to break the regular control flow for immediate error reporting. Newer languages tend to favor functional-style error reporting and encode errors in their return type. The author argue that exceptions are easier to work with as a programmer, and result in better user-facing error messages.

PHP's Resurgence: From Amateur Hour To Enterprise-level
Laravel's growing popularity has sparked a renewed interest in PHP, a language many thought was outdated. The author reflects on their own journey, from amateur hour homegrown projects to the reality of scaling applications, and how Laravel's robust framework and extensive support have rekindled excitement around PHP.