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#Stargate - Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate. Stargate is an infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI across the U.S. Musk claims Stargate doesn't have the funds, calling Altman a "swindler," while Altman fires back, saying Musk is just mad his own AI company isn't getting the spotlight!

#Xban - So, apparently some subreddits are kicking X to the curb, and Reddit is just letting them do their thing. Hundreds of subreddits are banning links to X, aka the site formerly known as Twitter, due to Elon Musks controversial salute at Trump’s inauguration ceremony.

#DataProtection - LinkedIn is facing a class-action lawsuit from some of its own Premium members. These users claim that LinkedIn shared their private messages and other data with third-party companies to help train artificial intelligence (AI) models.

India Presses Apple And Google To Open Up To State-backed App Store
India is pushing Apple and Google to support its own government-backed app store called gov[dot]in. The move is aimed at improving safety standards and facilitating access to social services for more than 700 million smartphone users in the country. In the EU, after the DMA was enacted, both Apple and. Google had to allow third-party app stores, such as the AltStore PAL, on their smartphones.

Competition Watchdog Issues Notice To Ola, Uber Over Differential Pricing
Ola & Uber, popular ride-hailing companies, got notices from Competition Commission of India (CCI) over allegations of charging different fares to iPhone & Android users, sparking concerns over unfair practices.

HCLTech Expands Hyderabad Operations With New Centre
HCLTech is a Indian multinational IT services company. HCLTech to launch new tech centre in Hyderabad, creating 5,000 jobs, focusing on cloud, AI, and digital transformation solutions, reaffirming Hyderabad's position as a leading IT hub.

Indian Tribunal Lifts Ban On Whatsapp Data Sharing
WhatsApp the most-used messaging app in India with over 700 million monthly users. India's antitrust regulator had barred WhatsApp from sharing user data due to its "take-it-or-leave-it" privacy update, considering it an abuse of Meta's dominant position. However, an Indian tribunal has lifted this ban, allowing WhatsApp to share user data temporarily.

Summary Of Everything Announced At The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Event
Samsung’s first Unpacked event of 2025 delivered the Galaxy S25 series — as expected. Although the phones don’t have dramatically upgraded specs, the company stuffed — you guessed it! — more AI into the devices. This latest batch is more context-sensitive and predictive, and some of it even squeezes more out of the phones’ mildly upgraded hardware.

Tailwind CSS - Version 4 released. Optimized for performance with a new high-performance engine, simplified installation, and modernized features like cascade layers, registered custom properties, and color-mix().

Google’s Circle to Search - Expanded AI Overviews for more visual search results and ability to recognize numbers, email addresses, and URLs for easy interaction.

Tumblr - Introduces Tumblr TV, a full-screen video and GIF discovery feature, as a standard feature for all users.

Workerful | A lightweight, worker driven, Electron alternative.

Awesome Courses | List of awesome university courses for learning Computer Science!

Dbos Transact TS | Ultra-Lightweight Durable Execution in TypeScript

Visual Storytelling Lessons From Netflix’s Squid Game
This article explores how the hit show Squid Game's visual design can inform web design principles. You will learn how to leverage color, minimalism, geometric shapes, and visual tension to evoke emotions and captivate audiences, and how to balance clarity with mystery in design.

Minimizing Interruptions For Better Productivity: A Software Engineer's Perspective
Research on software engineer productivity shows that interruptions, especially those from high-authority figures, impact code writing tasks the most, increasing stress and decreasing productivity, while in-person interruptions have a positive impact on physiological measures, contrary to perceived stress levels. To mitigate, teams can minimize high-dominance interruptions, reduce notifications during critical focus periods, and measure interruption impact using surveys and telemetry data.

Dark Mode Dilemma
Web designers forced to reconsider exclusive dark mode designs due to accessibility and eye strain concerns. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) lacks standards for maximum contrast ratios in dark mode, causing discomfort for users.

Ask HN: Is Anyone Doing Anything Cool With Tiny Language Models?
A discussion around the use cases for Tiny Language Models (v/s LLMs). Many users share their projects and use cases for tiny language models, including generating stories, auto-summarization, fine-tuning for medical records, and more.