🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #139

Happy Friday! Time to finish the week on a high note!

#ChildSafety - Australia is deciding to ban social media for kids under 16. They are trialing an age-verification system to assist in blocking children from accessing social media platforms. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese cited the risks to physical and mental health of children from excessive social media use. The opposition Liberal Party too has expressed support for a ban.

#GoogleJarvis - Google has accidentally listed an internal preview of its Jarvis AI agent on Chrome Web Store. Jarvis AI will work similarly to Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s Computer Use feature to automate your web browsing. Google is planning on releasing Jarvis AI publicly in December itself.

#AppleSmartGlasses - Apple Inc. is exploring a push into smart glasses with an internal study of products currently on the market, setting the stage for the company to follow Meta Platforms Inc. into an increasingly popular category.

Truecaller's New CEO: Another of Indian Origin
The co-founders of Swedish caller identification app Truecaller are stepping back from day-to-day operations, marking the end of an era for one of Sweden’s most successful consumer technology companies. They will hand over control to Rishit Jhunjhunwala, currently the company’s product chief.

Amazon Launches Creator Central For Indian Content Creators
Creator Central is a platform by Amazon India that helps content creators in India create, promote, measure, and monetize their content. It's a centralized hub where creators can manage their content, track performance, and earn commissions on qualifying purchases.

OpenAI Buys Chat[dot]com
Chat[dot]com now redirects to OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the acquisition via email. Chat[dot]com is one of the older domains on the web, having been registered in September 1996.

Morgan Stanley Launches Mumbai Campus With AI-powered Innovation
Okay, so Morgan Stanley is a major investment banking firm, and they just opened a huge new campus in Mumbai, India. The campus is super high-tech, sustainable, and inclusive, with lots of new AI-powered tools to help their financial advisors be more productive. They're also expecting big growth in the GCC (Global Capability Center) sector in India, with projections showing over 2,400 such centers in India by 2030, generating jobs for millions of people.

Government Of Canada Orders Tiktok To Shut Down Operations Over National Security Concerns
Canada has ordered TikTok to shut down its operations in the country. The country cited unspecified “national security risks” posed by the company and its parent ByteDance.

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Microsoft Integrates Chatgpt With Windows Terminal
Learn how to use ChatGPT in Windows Terminal to boost your productivity while working on programming-related tasks. With context-aware answers and support for GitHub Copilot and Azure OpenAI, this feature can revolutionize your workflow. Follow the steps to install and set up ChatGPT in Windows Terminal.

Weird Timezones
From standard timezones to unusual ones, we'll explore the quirks of timekeeping. Discover weird offset times, hard-coded timezones, and unusual daylight saving rules. We'll dive into the raw timezone files and how they're represented in software.

Shopify's Massive React Native Migration Succeeds
Shopify has migrated its mobile app to React Native, reducing code by 1.8M lines, improving performance by 59%, and eliminating 500K crashes per app version.