🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #199

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#IndiaTech - Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced at the Utkarsh Odisha Conclave that India will develop its own foundational AI. model within the next few months.

Wipro Wins 5-year Contract With Etihad Airways For Tech Modernization
Wipro is a big Indian IT company, and Etihad Airways is a major airline. Big news today - Wipro just landed a 5-year contract with Etihad to modernize their tech, making their operations more efficient and customer experience better. They'll use cloud solutions and AI to automate data centers and more.

Zepto Shifts To Franchise Model
Zepto is a quick-commerce company. They've been working with just three firms to manage their "dark stores" (basically, stores that only fulfill online orders), but now they're changing things up. They're giving store operations to third-party franchise owners, kind of like how McDonald's works. This means more people will be running Zepto stores, but the company will still be in control of inventory and customer experience.

Vodafone Makes World's First Satellite Video Call From A Standard Smartphone
Vodafone, a leading UK-based telecom company, today successfully made a video call using a standard smartphone via a satellite connection, partnering with AST SpaceMobile, a Texas-based satellite tech firm. This breakthrough enables mobile broadband service in remote areas without dedicated satellite hardware, expected to launch in Europe by 2025 and expand to the US later.

Google Chrome - Redesigned Task Manager with categorized tabs and integrated search functionality.

Netflix - Added ability to download an entire season of a TV show with a single click on iOS devices.

Google Play Protect - Introduced automatic disabling of app permissions for potentially harmful apps and added extra confirmation step for restoring permissions to flagged apps.

Azure AI Foundry - DeepSeek-R1 model now available as a serverless endpoint through the model catalog, offering enterprises a trusted and scalable platform for cutting-edge AI capabilities.

OSV Dev | Open source vulnerability DB and triage service.

Searchlight | A native MacOS Postgres client

Repomix | Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Gemini.

Dokploy | Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.

9 Algorithms That Dominate The World
In this week's system design refresher, we'll cover the 9 algorithms that dominate our world, the role of API gateways, how gRPC works, Docker vs. Kubernetes, API architecture styles, CI/CD pipelines, and MVC, MVP, MVVM, VIPER patterns. Additionally, we'll explore the differences between Docker and Kubernetes, and how to choose between them.

Temporal API Simplifies Date And Time Handling
JavaScript's new Temporal API streamlines date and time management, enabling easy handling of time zones, calendars, and Unix timestamps. Developers can now perform complex calculations with ease, including comparing and sorting durations.

Deepseek-r1 Stuns Big AI
Some thoughts on Deepseek LLM by the CTO of Zerodha.